1 Social network: Its use as a conceptual framework in family analysis

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. FOREWORD V
3. Preface VII
4. Table of contents XV
5. Part 1. Theory and methodology
6. 1 Social network: Its use as a conceptual framework in family analysis 3
7. 2 Networks, norms and institutions 15
8. 3 Network analysis and social theory Some remarks 37
9. 4 Some applications of the notion of density to network analysis 45
10. Part 2. Networks compared
11. 5 Network density among urban families 67
12. 6 Social network and conjugal role in urban Zambia: Towards a reformulation of the Bott hypothesis 83
13. 7 Two types of partial networks in Burundi 111
14. 8 An exploration of two first-order zones 125
15. Part 3. Network and coalitions
16. 9 Coalitions in Sicilian peasant society 151
17. 10 Politics on the village level 167
18. 11 Coalitions and network analysis 219
19. Bibliography 251
20. Biographical data of authors 256
21. Subject index 259