Structure in personal networks: Constructing and comparing typologies.

ABSTRACT: A recurrent finding in personal network research is that individual and social outcomes are influenced not just by the kind of people one knows, but also by how those people are connected to each other: that is, by the structure of one's personal network. The different ways in which a person's social contacts know and interact with each other reflect broader variations in personal communities and social structures, and shape patterns and processes of social capital, support, and isolation. This article proposes a method to identify typologies of network structure in large collections of personal networks. The method is illustrated with an application to six datasets collected in widely different circumstances and using various survey instruments. Results are compared with those from anothe

SUBMITTER: Vacca R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7678817 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature