Communities and networks : using social network analysis to rethink urban and community studies /
In Communities and Networks, Katherine Giuffre takes the science of social network analysis and applies it to key issues of living in communities, especially in urban areas, exploring question such as: How do communities shape our lives and identities? How do they foster either conformity or innovat...
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Cambridge, UK :
Polity,
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. What is network analysis and how can it be useful?
- What is structure?
- Networks as metaphors
- Metaphor into method
- What is a social network?
- Further developments
- Why use network analysis?
- Plan of the book
- Software
- A closer look: basic network terms and definitions
- Entering and displaying matrices in UCINET6
- 2. What is a community? Where does it come from?
- Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft
- Durkheim: mechanical and organic solidarity
- Simmel: individuality and social groups
- "The duality of persons and groups"
- Cohesion
- A closer look: matrix multiplication
- Matrix multiplication in UCINET6
- 3. What do communities do for us?
- Gift exchanges as social support and obligation
- The world the slaves made
- Different types of support
- Conjugal roles and social networks
- Agency in networks
- The Search for an Abortionist
- A closer look: density
- Calculating density in UCINET6
- 4. How do communities shape identity?
- Community and ethnicity in Chicago
- Minorities, majorities, and the weight of numbers
- Assimilation in Chicago
- Small worlds and six degrees of separation
- "The strength of weak ties"
- The disadvantages of strong communities
- A closer look: balance
- 5. What happens when communities become fractured?
- Witchcraft in Salem
- Arson and the Indochinese in East Boston
- Isolation and atomization in Germany
- A closer look: centrality
- How to calculate centrality in UCINET6
- 6. How do communities mobilize for collective action and social movements?
- Riots in Washington
- Urban revolt in Paris
- Recruiting high-risk activists
- Structuring connections
- A closer look: structural equivalence
- How to find structural equivalence with UCINET6
- 7. How do communities foster creativity and innovation?
- Social networks and innovative thinking
- The creative context of the city
- Small world structures
- The Apple example
- A closer look: correspondence analysis
- Doing correspondence analysis in UCINET6
- 8. How do new communities differ from traditional communities?
- Rethinking the concept of community
- Cyber utopians vs. cyber dystopians
- A different kind of space
- The structure of the web
- A closer look: multidimensional scaling
- Doing multidimensional scaling in UCINET6.
