George C. Homans Born in Boston, Massachusetts August 11, 1910. Died in Cambridge, Massachusetts May 29, 1989. was the American founder of "Behavioral sociology" & the exchange theory. Boston is a town and small port c. ... August 11 is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... -1... Cambridge City Hall Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. ... May 29 is the 149th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (150th in leap years). ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Behavioral Sociology is a major contemporary theory in Sociological Theory. ...

Homans is known for his model of work group behaviour where the "emergent behaviour" (informal organisations) comes between the requirements and plans of the management, derived from technological, social and economic environment, and work productivity and satisfaction. Look up work in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Emergence is the process of deriving some new and coherent structures, patterns and properties in a complex system. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

Works

• English villagers of the thirteenth century , (1941)
• Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms, (1961, rev. ed. 1974)