Homans sought to explain elementary social behavior which he defined as
a. face-to-face contact between individuals, in which the reward each gets from the behavior of the others, is relatively direct and immediate.
b. human beings acting toward things on the basis of the meanings that the things have for them.
c. based on the division of labor inherent within primitive societies.
d. a reciprocal relationship between an interdependent self and society.
a. face-to-face contact between individuals, in which the reward each gets from the behavior of the others, is relatively direct and immediate.
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