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Social Capital
A Theory of Social Structure and Action
Av Nan Lin
Häftad, 2002
422 kr
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In Social Capital, Nan Lin explains the importance of using social connections and social relations in achieving goals. Social capital, or resources accessed through such connections and relations, is critical (along with human capital, or what a person or organization actually possesses) to …
Economic Networks
Theory and Computation
Av Thomas J. Sargent, John Stachurski
Häftad, 2024
569 kr
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It has become increasingly clear that economies can fruitfully be viewed as networks, consisting of millions of nodes (households, firms, banks, etc.) connected by business, social, and legal relationships. These relationships shape many outcomes that economists often measure. Over the past few …
Bonds of Civility
Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture
Av Eiko Ikegami, Mark Granovetter
Häftad, 2005
569 kr
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In this book, Eiko Ikegami uncovers a complex history of social life in which aesthetic images became central to Japan's cultural identities. The people of premodern Japan built on earlier aesthetic traditions in part for their own sake, but also to find space for self-expression in the …
Social Sequence Analysis
Methods and Applications
Häftad, 2015
487 kr
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Social sequence analysis includes a diverse and rapidly growing body of methods that social scientists have developed to help study complex ordered social processes, including chains of transitions, trajectories and other ordered phenomena. Social sequence analysis is not limited by content or time …
Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek
Revised and Expanded Edition for Updated Software
Av Wouter De Nooy, Andrej Mrvar m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
705 kr
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An extensively revised and expanded third edition of the successful textbook on analysis and visualization of social networks integrating theory, applications, and professional software for performing network analysis (Pajek). The main structural concepts and their applications in social research …
Legalizing Gender Inequality
Courts, Markets and Unequal Pay for Women in America
Av Robert L. Nelson, William P. Bridges m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
650 kr
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Legalizing Gender Inequality challenges existing theories of gender inequality within economic, sociological, and legal organizations. The book argues that male-female earnings differentials cannot be explained adequately by market forces, principles of efficiency, or society-wide sexism. Rather it …
In Search of Respect
Selling Crack in El Barrio
Av Philippe Bourgois, Mark Granovetter
Inbunden, 2002
1384 kr
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In Search of Respect, Philippe Bourgois's now-classic, ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America, won critical acclaim after it was first published in 1995 and in 1997 was awarded the Margaret Mead Award. For the first time, an anthropologist had managed to gain the trust …
In Search of Respect
Selling Crack in El Barrio
Häftad, 2002
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420 kr
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In Search of Respect, Philippe Bourgois's now-classic, ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America, won critical acclaim after it was first published in 1995 and in 1997 was awarded the Margaret Mead Award. For the first time, an anthropologist had managed to gain the trust …
A Structural Theory of Social Influence
Häftad, 2006
927 kr
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This book addresses a phenomenon that has been much studied in anthropology, sociology and administrative science - the social structural foundations of coordinated activity and consensus in complexly differentiated communities and organizations. Such foundations are important because social …
Algebraic Models for Social Networks
Häftad, 2006
781 kr
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As the analysis of social networks, or networks of interpersonal and social relationships among social groups, has become an increasingly important method of research in several of the social and behavioural sciences, the gathering of network data has outpaced the development of new methods for its …
The Logics of Social Structure
Häftad, 2006
846 kr
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In this book, the author proposes an interesting approach to the study of one of the most central concepts in social analysis, that of social structure. He provides a critique of the leading models and argues that each is inadequate to the task of explaining the complexity of structures that make …
Island Networks
Communication, Kinship, and Classification Structures in Oceania
Av Per Hage, Frank Harary
Häftad, 2007
732 kr
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Contrary to common perception and belief, most island societies of the Pacific were not isolated, but were connected to other island societies by relations of kinship and marriage, trade and tribute, language and history. Using network models from graph theory, the authors analyse the formation of …
Schism and Solidarity in Social Movements
The Politics of Labor in the French Third Republic
Häftad, 2007
732 kr
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Like many organizations and social movements, the Third Republic French labour movement exhibited a marked tendency to schism into competing sectarian organizations. During the roughly 50-year period from the fall of the Paris Commune to the creation of the powerful French Communist Party, the …
Kinship, Networks, and Exchange
Av Thomas Schweizer, Douglas R. White
Häftad, 2008
667 kr
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This collection of articles aims at revitalizing the study of kinship and exchange in a social network perspective. It brings together studies of empirical systems of marriage and descent with investigations of the flow of material resources in societies of Africa, Asia, the Pacific and Europe. …
Networks of Nations
The Evolution, Structure, and Impact of International Networks, 1816-2001
Av Zeev Maoz
Häftad, 2010
618 kr
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Maoz views the evolution of international relations over the last two centuries as a set of interacting, cooperative and conflicting networks of states. The networks that emerged are the result of national choice processes about forming or breaking ties with other states. States are constantly …
Exponential Random Graph Models for Social Networks
Theory, Methods, and Applications
Av Dean Lusher, Johan Koskinen m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
569 kr
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Exponential random graph models (ERGMs) are increasingly applied to observed network data and are central to understanding social structure and network processes. The chapters in this edited volume provide a self-contained, exhaustive account of the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of …
Exponential Random Graph Models for Social Networks
Theory, Methods, and Applications
Av Dean Lusher, Johan Koskinen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1286 kr
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Exponential random graph models (ERGMs) are increasingly applied to observed network data and are central to understanding social structure and network processes. The chapters in this edited volume provide a self-contained, exhaustive account of the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of …
Networks of Nations
The Evolution, Structure, and Impact of International Networks, 1816-2001
Av Zeev Maoz
Inbunden, 2010
1465 kr
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Maoz views the evolution of international relations over the last two centuries as a set of interacting, cooperative and conflicting networks of states. The networks that emerged are the result of national choice processes about forming or breaking ties with other states. States are constantly …
Algebraic Models for Social Networks
Inbunden, 1993
1856 kr
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As the analysis of social networks, or networks of interpersonal and social relationships among social groups, has become an increasingly important method of research in several of the social and behavioural sciences, the gathering of network data has outpaced the development of new methods for its …
Political Networks
The Structural Perspective
Av David Knoke, Mark Granovetter
Inbunden, 1990
1563 kr
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This book examines almost two decades of research using the structural or network approach to political behaviour. Network analysis begins with the assumption that the most important elements of political power are the relationships of influence and domination among social actors. Influence is …
Social Network Analysis
Methods and Applications
Av Stanley Wasserman, Katherine Faust
Häftad, 1994
1025 kr
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Social network analysis is used widely in the social and behavioral sciences, as well as in economics, marketing, and industrial engineering. The social network perspective focuses on relationships among social entities and is an important addition to standard social and behavioral research, which …
Governance of the American Economy
Av John L. Campbell, J. Rogers Hollingsworth m. fl.
Inbunden, 1991
2068 kr
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In this book, nine scholars representing various perspectives examine institutions that govern economic activity in the United States and the dramatic changes they have undergone since the late nineteenth century. They investigate how and why these changes occurred and continue to occur as markets …
Governance of the American Economy
Av John L. Campbell, J. Rogers Hollingsworth m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
764 kr
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In this book, nine scholars representing various perspectives examine institutions that govern economic activity in the United States and the dramatic changes they have undergone since the late nineteenth century. They investigate how and why these changes occurred and continue to occur as markets …
The Logics of Social Structure
Inbunden, 1993
1530 kr
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In this book, the author proposes an interesting approach to the study of one of the most central concepts in social analysis, that of social structure. He provides a critique of the leading models and argues that each is inadequate to the task of explaining the complexity of structures that make …
Intercorporate Relations
The Structural Analysis of Business
Av Marks Mizruchi, Mark S. Mizruchi m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
787 kr
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Within the last decade, researchers studying business organizations have come to realize that corporate behaviour cannot be explained in terms of the actions of individual firms alone, and that in order to understand how businesses operate it is necessary to explore the relationships among them. …
Japan's Network Economy
Structure, Persistence, and Change
Av James R. Lincoln, Michael L. Gerlach
Inbunden, 2004
2029 kr
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Japan's economy has long been described as network-centric. A web of stable, reciprocated relations among banks, firms, and ministries, is thought to play an important role in Japan's ability to navigate smoothly around economic shocks. Now those networks are widely blamed for Japan's faltering …
A Structural Theory of Social Influence
Inbunden, 1998
1954 kr
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This book addresses a phenomenon that has been much studied in anthropology, sociology and administrative science - the social structural foundations of coordinated activity and consensus in complexly differentiated communities and organizations. Such foundations are important because social …
Industrial Constructions
The Sources of German Industrial Power
Inbunden, 1995
2130 kr
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This book is about the way in which industrial production in Germany is conditioned by social and political factors. Herrigel emphasizes regional, organizational, and policy dimensions of the development of German industry from the seventeenth century to the present. The argument is distinctive …
Social Capital
A Theory of Social Structure and Action
Av Nan Lin
Inbunden, 2001
1286 kr
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In Social Capital, Nan Lin explains the importance of using social connections and social relations in achieving goals. Social capital, or resources accessed through such connections and relations, is critical (along with human capital, or what a person or organization actually possesses) to …
Political Networks
The Structural Perspective
Av David Knoke, Mark Granovetter
Häftad, 1994
667 kr
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This book examines almost two decades of research using the structural or network approach to political behaviour. Network analysis begins with the assumption that the most important elements of political power are the relationships of influence and domination among social actors. Influence is …
