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Toward an Expansion of Resource Exchange Theory: A Facet Approach

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Part II addresses conceptual and theoretical developments via seven chapters concerned with further extensions and elaborations of the original version of SRT.

Clara Sabbagh and Schlomit Levy build on insights from facet theory in Chap. 4 and refine the exchange rationale underlying the similarities and differences among resource classes by means of facet theory’s mapping sentence. They suggest specifically that resource exchange is structured by a wide range of behaviors that can be classified via various facets. This facet analysis is based on the identification of seven facets (i.e., comparison targets, type of motive, mode of resource transmission, resource availability, modality, resource valence, and social realm) in addition to the particularism and concreteness facets suggested by SRT. On the basis of these theoretical distinctions, the authors finally show how Foa and Foa’s theory can be systematically expanded from a circle (circumplex) to a more complex structure.

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  1. Faculty Education, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, 31905, Israel

    Clara Sabbagh

  2. Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, 91905, Israel

    Shlomit Levy

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Sabbagh, C., Levy, S. (2012). Toward an Expansion of Resource Exchange Theory: A Facet Approach. In: Törnblom, K., Kazemi, A. (eds) Handbook of Social Resource Theory. Critical Issues in Social Justice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4175-5_4

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