Social Structures

A Network Approach

By: Barry Wellman (Editor), S.D. Berkowitz (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 January 1997

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This study of social structures looks at the network approach. It contains non-technical articles that contrast structural analysis with other social scientific approaches. It deals with individual behaviour and identity and with neighbourhood and community ties. It examines the relationships within and between organizations, discussing how firms occupy strategically appropriate niches. It also explores the impact of the growth of the Internet, equating computer networks as social networks connecting people in virtual communities and collaborative work.

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List of figures and tables
Preface
Introduction: Studying social structures	p. 1
Structural analysis: from method and metaphor to theory and substance	p. 19
Understanding simple social structure: kinship units and ties	p. 62
The duality of persons and groups	p. 83
The relational basis of attitudes	p. 99
Networks as personal communities	p. 130
Work and community in industrializing India	p. 185
Relations of productions and class rule: the hidden basis of patron-clientage	p. 198
Varieties of markets	p. 226
Markets and market-areas: some preliminary formulations	p. 261
Form and substance in the analysis of the world economy	p. 304
Misreading, then rereading, nineteenth-century social change	p. 332
Structural location and ideological divergence: Jewish Marxist intellectuals in turn-of-the-century Russia	p. 359
Cites and fights: material entailment analysis of the eighteenth-century chemical revolution	p. 380
Collective mobility and the persistence of dynasties	p. 405
Economic action and social structure: the problem of embeddedness	p. 430
Occupational mobility: a structural model	p. 452
Afterword: Toward a formal structural sociology	p. 477
Notes on contributors	p. 498
Subject Index	p. 501
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