By: Colten Perry

Interpersonal communication – Professor Colangelo

SOCIAL EXCHANGE THEORY

• Author:• George Homans

• Contributors:• Peter Blau

• Sol Levine

• Paul White

• Costs and Rewards

SOCIAL EXCHANGE THEORY

SOCIAL EXCHANGE THEORY

• Immediate• Considering the Present

• Future• Long-term

SOCIAL EXCHANGE THEORY

• Cumulative • Collected Over Time

• Expected• Relational Ideals

EASTBOUND AND DOWN

• Kenny and April have had a rollercoaster-like relationship in the past and when Kenny asks April to move away with him she must consider the costs and rewards of maintaining a new relationship with him.

EASTBOUND AND DOWN• "Gabreil hit me up witha scrimp"

EASTBOUND AND DOWN

• April rejects Kenny because the costs of starting a new life with him out weigh the rewards

• She has no cumulated rewards to draw upon to justify re-starting a relationship with Kenny

• She sees no forecasted rewards of moving away with Kenny and leaving her home

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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRNbSkuYNEU

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