ISBN:
9781138783775
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (206 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
Parallel Title:
Print version Explorations in Structural Analysis (RLE Social Theory) : Dual and Multiple Networks of Social Interaction
DDC:
302
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
At a time when most of the innovative techniques in empirical sociology concern themselves with networks of relations among variables (such as indices of occupational prestige, education and income), the central theme of this volume is that there is much substantive insight and analytical leverage to be gained from a conceptualization of social structure directly, as regularities in the patterning of relations among concrete entities. The view adopted here is that variate distributions measure selected consequences of structural pattern (of the actual connections among individuals or organizat
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; The Duality of Persons and Groups; Career Attributes and Network Structure: A Blockmodel Study of a Biomedical Specialty; Toward an Operational Theory of Community Elite Structures
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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