ISBN:
9780197606834
,
9780190275457
,
9780190275440
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 327 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Fuhse, Jan, 1975 - Social networks of meaning and communication
DDC:
302.3
Keywords:
Social networks
;
Interpersonal relations
;
Meaning (Psychology)-Social aspects
;
Electronic books
;
Soziales Netzwerk
;
Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
Abstract:
In Social Network of Meaning and Communication, Jan Fuhse offers a theoretical account of social networks to explore both what they are and how they matter in the social world. Drawing upon and extending the cutting-edge work of Harrison White and Charles Tilly, Fuhse takes an important step forward in establishing a new theory of social networks, reconceptualizing networks as constituted in patterns of meaning with a dynamic set of expectations that form, reproduce, and change over the course of communicative events.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Networks with Theory -- 1.1. Foundations -- 1.2. Why theory? -- 1.3. What theory? -- 1.4. Theories of networks and relational sociologies -- 1.5. Outline of the book -- 2. Networks, Relationships, and Meaning -- 2.1. Levels of network research -- 2.2. Excursus on culture and meaning -- 2.3. Incorporating culture -- 2.4. Relationships as expectations -- 2.5. Processes linking multiple ties -- 2.6. Identities -- 2.7. Relationship frames -- 2.8. Network culture -- 2.9. Conclusion -- 3. Groups and Social Boundaries -- 3.1. Early groupism -- 3.2. From groups to networks -- 3.3. Group culture -- 3.4. Foci of activity -- 3.5. Styles and social boundaries -- 3.6. Alternative accounts -- 3.7. Conclusion -- 4. Ethnic Categories and Cultural Differences -- 4.1. Marginal figures -- 4.2. Anthropology -- 4.3. Social capital -- 4.4. Interlude -- 4.5. Ethnic categories and networks -- 4.6. The relational nature of ethnic boundaries -- 4.7. Networks of marginality -- 4.8. Conclusion -- 5. Roles and Institutions -- 5.1. Network research -- 5.2. Normative expectations -- 5.3. Playing and making roles -- 5.4. Plasticity and tools -- 5.5. Institutionalization -- 5.6. Actors and relationship patterns -- 5.7. Relational sociology -- 5.8. Synthesis -- 5.9. Roles and relational institutions -- 5.10. Conclusion -- 6. Love and Gender -- 6.1. Gender -- 6.2. Romantic love -- 6.3. Network theory -- 6.4. Sexual fields -- 6.5. Institutions in personal relationships -- 6.6. Structural equivalence -- 6.7. Network patterns -- 6.8. Gendered confiding relationships -- 6.9. Conclusion -- 7. Events in Networks -- 7.1. Processes and relations -- 7.2. Behavior -- 7.3. Action -- 7.4. Practice -- 7.5. Exchange -- 7.6. Interaction -- 7.7. Transaction -- 7.8. Switchings -- 7.9. Desiderata -- 7.10. Conclusion.
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