Showing papers in "Social Networks in 1980"

TL;DR: Granovetter's "strength of weak ties" theory offers a satisfying approach to the study of integration in networks of face-to-face interaction consisting of multiple subgroups as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a structural interest model to describe how a potential adopter perceives utility in innovating as a function of his position in network(s) of relations with other potential adopters.

TL;DR: This model for valued graphs, or vigraphs, provides a unified representation and matrix methodology for dealing with qualitative and quantitative structures, incorporates many existing methods as special cases, and suggests new applications.

TL;DR: In this article, a preliminary quantitative analysis of the systematic relationships shown by the patterns of acquaintanceship in several small social networks in the metropolitan New York area is presented, and the authors present a preliminary qualitative analysis of these relationships.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used data from a study of newcomer families in Canberra, Australia, to illustrate patterns of couples' network formation in a new social setting, focusing on particular couple network patterns which newcomers developed during their first year and on the influence of these patterns on the newcomers' experience of the new social environment.

TL;DR: This paper examines the long-term disruption of social networks following the collapse of the Tasman Bridge in Hobart, Tasmania, which divided the city in two for almost three years and radically altered normal patterns of mobility and accessibility.

TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that structural-functionalism should be understood as a social network theory, as opposed to the common practice of dissociating the two two, and that some network theories have themselves possessed a functional form.