Abstract

FRANCO, Márcia Häfele Islabão; COSTA, Antônio Carlos da Rocha  and  COELHO, Helder. Exchange values and social power supporting the choice of partners. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2010, vol.5, n.9, pp.43-67. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2010.9.159.

In this paper, we adopt Piaget’s theory of social exchanges, in which an interaction is an exchange of services between agents, such that agents assign subjective, qualitative values —called exchange values— to the actions and objects they exchange during interactions. The agents present characteristics related to social power during the interactions. In this paper, we show how these characteristics are considered in the agents’ reasoning. This paper also shows how these characteristics and the exchange values can influence the agents’ choice of future partners, in support of group formation.

Keywords : social exchanges; exchange values; social power; choice of partners.

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