Social Structure from Multiple Networks. I. Blockmodels of Roles and Positions

Networks of several distinct types of social tie are aggregated by a dual model that partitions a population while simultaneously identifying patterns of relations. Concepts and algorithms are demonstrated in five case studies involving up to 100 persons and up to eight types of tie, over as many as...

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Published in:The American journal of sociology 1976-01, Vol.81 (4), p.730-780
Main Authors: White, Harrison C., Boorman, Scott A., Breiger, Ronald L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attachment behavior
Conflict management
Methodology/Methodologies/ Methodological (see also Method)
Monasteries
Network/Networks
Population parameters
Population structure
Sales management
Social interaction
Social structure/Social structures
Social structures
Social theories
Sociometrics
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Summary:Networks of several distinct types of social tie are aggregated by a dual model that partitions a population while simultaneously identifying patterns of relations. Concepts and algorithms are demonstrated in five case studies involving up to 100 persons and up to eight types of tie, over as many as 15 time periods. In each case the model identifies a concrete social structure. Role and position concepts are then identified and interpreted in terms of these new models of concrete social structure. Part II, to be published in the May issue of this Journal (Boorman and White 1976), will show how the operational meaning of role structures in small populations can be generated from the sociometric blockmodels of Part I.
ISSN:0002-9602
1537-5390
DOI:10.1086/226141