<Tr> <Th> Influences </Th> <Td> Robert K. Merton, Talcott Parsons, Lawrence J. Henderson, Vilfredo Pareto, B.F. Skinner, Bernard DeVoto, Émile Durkheim, Elton Mayo </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Influenced </Th> <Td> Richard M. Emerson, Peter Blau, James Samuel Coleman, Edward Laumann, Linda D. Molm, Karen S. Cook, Edward J. Lawler </Td> </Tr> <P> George Casper Homans (August 11, 1910--May 29, 1989) was an American Sociologist, founder of behavioral sociology and the Social Exchange Theory . </P> <P> Homans is best known for his research in social behavior and his works including The Human Group, Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms, his Exchange Theory and the many different propositions he made to better explain social behavior . </P>

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