Ties that Bind/Unwind: The Social, Economic, and Organizational Contexts of Sharing Networks

This commentary provides a synthetic overview and analytic framework for understanding the papers in this volume of The ANNALS, which focuses on sharing networks in a comparative context. Economic crises endemic to capitalist societies generate the need for support networks, while welfare state conf...

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Published in:The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 2020-05, Vol.689 (1), p.192-201
Main Author: Newman, Katherine S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Capitalism
Capitalist societies
Economic crisis
Hierarchies
Networks
Poverty
Reciprocity
Social networks
Social norms
Support networks
Vulnerability
Welfare state
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Summary:This commentary provides a synthetic overview and analytic framework for understanding the papers in this volume of The ANNALS, which focuses on sharing networks in a comparative context. Economic crises endemic to capitalist societies generate the need for support networks, while welfare state configurations influence their importance as an additional survival tool. Social norms set the stage for the degrees of reciprocity and durable obligation that networks engender and the boundary conditions that enable or disable the most vulnerable members of the social hierarchy to tap the resources of more privileged contacts.
ISSN:0002-7162
1552-3349
DOI:10.1177/0002716220923335