Networks in the Global Village: Life in Contemporary Communities / Edition 1

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Overview

Networks in the Global Village examines how people live through personal communities: their networks of friends, neighbors, relatives, and coworkers. It is the first book to compare the communities of people around the world. Major social differences between and within the First, Second, and Third Worlds affect the opportunities and insecurities with which individuals and households must deal, the supportive resources they seek, and the ways in which markets, institutions, and networks structure access to these resources. Each article written by a resident shows how living in a country affects the ways in which people use networks to access resources.Most people’s ties in the developed world are not with neighbors but are widely dispersed. Unlike traditional studies of communities, social network analysis can identify the flourishing personal communities that people do have, no matter how far their ties may stretch and how fragmented their communities may be.Social networks are one of the principal means by which people and households acquire resources—either directly, through informal exchanges, or indirectly, by providing information on how to access the services provided by governments and other institutions. Networks in the Global Village focuses on how people use these networks around the world.
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Ten contributions use social network analysis to study communities from around the globe. They present original research from eight countries in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia written by residents of the countries studied. The information suggests that communities are usually loosely bounded, sparsely knit networks of specialized ties, rather than tightly bounded or densely grouped, and that one must treat them as a social network and not as an area. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780813368214
  • Publisher: Westview Press
  • Publication date: 7/28/1999
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 377
  • Sales rank: 1,264,296
  • Lexile: 1460L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Meet the Author

Barry Wellman is professor of sociology at the University of Toronto. He is chair of the Community and Urban Sociology section of the American Sociological Association, founder and international coordinator of the International Network for Social Network Analysis, focus area advisor for Virtual Communities of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Groupware, and coeditor of Social Structures: A Network Approach.
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Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
The Network Community: An Introduction 1
1 The Elements of Personal Communities 49
2 The Network Basis of Social Support: A Network Is More Than the Sum of Its Ties 83
3 Neighbor Networks of Black and White Americans 119
4 Social Networks Among the Urban Poor: Inequality and Integration in a Latin American City 147
5 The Diversity of Personal Networks in France: Social Stratification and Relational Structures 185
6 Network Capital in Capitalist, Communist, and Postcommunist Countries 225
7 Getting a Job Through a Web of Guanxi in China 255
8 Personal Community Networks in Contemporary Japan 279
9 Using Social Networks to Exit Hong Kong 299
10 Net-Surfers Don't Ride Alone: Virtual Communities as Communities 331
About the Editor and Contributors 367
Index 369
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  • Posted November 2, 2010

    Not as Good as the Network Society or Virtual Community

    While I have been studying the virtual communities since the 1990s, I had missed this book until recently. How disappointed I was. I was expecting it to be like Jan Van Dijk's 1999 book the Network Society, but it fell far short. It is nowhere near as good as fellow sociologist, Howard Rheingold's 1993 Virtual Community. I also recently bought the 2005 edition of The Network Society: Social Aspects of New Media by Jan Van Dijk and together with the 2000 edition of Howard Rhiengold's The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier these two provide a far superior and authoritative account of how social networks operate.

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