Social Structures

, by Wellman, Barry; Berkowitz, Stephen D.

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ISBN: 9780762302901 | 0762302909
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 7/1/1997

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Supplemental Materials

List of figures and tables

(4)

Preface

xiii

1 Introduction: Studying social structures

(14)

Barry Wellman

S. D. Berkowitz

Part I Thinking structurally

(108)

2 Structural analysis: from method and metaphor to theory and substance

(43)

Barry Wellman

3 Understanding simple social structure: kinship units and ties

(21)

Nancy Howell

4 The duality of persons and groups

(16)

Ronald L. Breiger

5 The relational basis of attitudes

(24)

Bonnie H. Erickson

Part II Communities

123

(98)

6 Networks as personal communities

130

(55)

Barry Wellman

Peter J. Carrington

Alan Hall

7 Work and community in industrializing India

185

(13)

Leslie Howard

8 Relations of production and class rule: the hidden basis of patron-clientage

198

(23)

Y. Michal Bodemann

Part III Markets

221

(106)

9 Varieties of markets

226

(35)

Harrison C. White

10 Markets and market-areas: some preliminary formulations

261

(43)

S. D. Berkowitz

11 Form and substance in the analysis of the world economy

304

(23)

Harriet Friedmann

Part IV Social change

327

(74)

12 Misreading, then rereading, nineteenth-century social change

332

(27)

Charles Tilly

13 Structural location and ideological divergence: Jewish Marxist intellectuals in turn-of-the-century Russia

359

(21)

Robert J. Brym

14 Cites and fights: material entailment analysis of the eighteenth-century chemical revolution

380

(21)

Doublas R. White

H. Gilman McCann

Part V Social mobility

401

(97)

15 Collective mobility and the persistence of dynasties

405

(25)

Lorne Tepperman

16 Economic action and social structure: the problem of embeddedness

430

(22)

Mark Granovetter

17 Occupational mobility: a structural model

452

(25)

Joel H. Levine

John Spadaro

18 Afterword: Toward a formal structural sociology

477

(21)

S. D. Berkowitz

Notes on contributors

498

(3)

Subject Index

501

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