Showing papers by "Linton C. Freeman published in 1992"
TL;DR: Two models of the structural form of small, informal groups are compared in this paper, and it turns out that the Winship model does not fit the data but that the model developed from Granovetter's work does.
Abstract: Two models of the structural form of small, informal groups are compared. One, derived by Winship, requires that patterns of social affiliation be strictly transitive. The other, based on Granovetter's ideas about weak and strong ties, requires only a special limited form of transitivity. When these alternative models are tested with data on human interaction, it turns out that the Winship model does not fit the data but that the model developed from Granovetter's work does.
242 citations
TL;DR: This article showed that people are aware of who is affiliated with whom in their immediate social world, but their perceptions of the patterning oh affiliation do not correspond to the patterns actually displayed by interacting humans.
Abstract: This paper shows that people are aware of who is affiliated with whom in their immediate social world. Their perceptions of the patterning oh affiliation, however, do not correspond to the patterning actually displayed by interacting humans. Affiliation is not categorical; perceptions of affiliation are, however. On the basis of experimental evidence about errors in learning simple social structures, a theory that accounts for this discrepancy is proposed. This theory suggests that people impose a categorical form on noncategorical affiliation patterns by a process of filling in the blanks in their experience
235 citations
TL;DR: The authors showed that stags that are high in a dominance ranking are equally likely to defeat those lower in the ranking, regardless of how different they are in their relative positions, and that the apparent contradiction can be eliminated by considering two questions about the structure of agonistic encounters: who fights with whom and who fights at all.
56 citations
01 Dec 1992
TL;DR: The Ressurrection of Cliques: Application of Galois Lattices as discussed by the authors shows how the clique definition, when it is linked with Galois lattices, can be used to produce an intuitively appealing characterization of groups.
Abstract: The Ressurrection of Cliques: Application of Galois Lattices. The mathematical definition of clique has never been entirely satisfactory when it comes to providing a procedure for assigning individuals to groups. This paper shows how the clique definition, when it is linked with Galois lattices, can be used to produce an intuitively appealing characterization of groups - one that is consistent with ethnographic descriptions. Two examples, using "classical" social network data sets, are provided.
5 citations