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The ties that bind: The effect of clustering on dyadic relationships
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This article explored the extent to which one can explain the dynamics of a given relationship or set of relationships by mapping the social network in which they exist and found that relationships are as much a product of the social networks of the two individuals involved as of their personal needs, histories or desires.About:
This article is published in Social Networks.The article was published on 1982-06-01. It has received 31 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social network.read more
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Rethinking centrality: Methods and examples☆
Karen Stephenson,Marvin Zelen +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a new model of centrality is proposed for networks based on the information contained in all possible paths between pairs of points, which does not require path enumeration and is not limited to the shortest paths or geodesies.
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Friendship Networks Through Time: An Actor-Oriented Dynamic Statistical Network Model
TL;DR: A class of actor-oriented statistical models for closed social networks in general, and friendship networks in particular, are proposed, developed within a rational choice framework based on social psychological and sociological theories about friendship.
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Evolution of sociology freshmen into a friendship network
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe and analyze the meeting process and the evolution of a friendship network among sociology freshmen in the Netherlands, and develop a theory that explains how changes in the network structure depend on one or more of four main effects: proximity, visible similarity, invisible similarity, and network opportunity.
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An Integrative Conceptual Framework for Friendship Research
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an integrative conceptual framework, incorporating both sociological and psychological perspectives, for use in these endeavors, which posits that the social structural and psychological aspects of individual characteristics operate together to shape behavioral motifs which, in turn, influence friendship patterns (dyadic and network structure and phases).
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Idiomatic Communication and Interpersonal Solidarity in Friends’ Relational Cultures
TL;DR: This article examined the relationship of interpersonal solidarity to various aspects of idiomatic communication in friends' relational cultures and found that solidarity was positively correlated with five idiom categories: activities, affection, confrontation, nicknames for self, and objects.
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The Strength of Weak Ties
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the degree of overlap of two individuals' friendship networks varies directly with the strength of their tie to one another, and the impact of this principle on diffusion of influence and information, mobility opportunity, and community organization is explored.
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The human group
TL;DR: The Human Group as mentioned in this paper is one of the seminal works in the study of small groups in sociology, psychology, management, and organizations, and has been widely used in the literature.
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Social Structure from Multiple Networks. I. Blockmodels of Roles and Positions
TL;DR: In this paper, Boorman and White proposed a dual model that partitions a population while simultaneously identifying patterns of relations and role and position concepts in the concrete social structure of small populations.
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The Focused Organization of Social Ties
TL;DR: In this article, a theory of the social organization of friendship ties is presented based on Homans's concepts of activities, interactions, and sentiments and upon the concept of extra-network foci organizing social activities and interaction.