What are friends for? Elective communities of single people

Bellotti, Elisa

doi:10.1016/j.socnet.2008.07.001

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“…For example, friendship ties for young adults might be a source of multidimensional support or no support at all. To fully elucidate the meaning of ties, and to understand the consequences of their changes on an ego, qualitative data are needed 45 . Furthermore, structural assessments over time reveal important information on network dynamics and adaptation to disease states 46 .…”

Section: Analysis Of Personal Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social networks and neurological illness

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Every patient is embedded in a social network of interpersonal connections that influence health outcomes. Neurologists routinely need to engage with a patient’s family and friends due to the nature of the illness and its social sequelae. Social isolation is a potent determinant of poor health and neurobiological changes, and its effects can be comparable to those of traditional risk factors. It would seem reasonable, therefore, to map and follow the personal networks of neurology patients. This approach reveals influential people, their habits, and linkage patterns that could facilitate or limit health behaviours. Personal network information can be particularly valuable to enhance risk factor management, medication adherence, and functional recovery. Here, we propose an agenda for research and clinical practice that includes mapping the networks of patients with diverse neurological disorders, evaluating the impact of the networks on patient outcomes, and testing network interventions.

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“…The strategy of using qualitative interviews to aid the analysis and understanding of network maps and measures has also been employed in much more recent research by Bidart and Lavenu (2005), Chiu and West (2007) and Bellotti (2008). In their panel study of the personal networks of young people in Normandy, Bidart and Lavenu (2005) used namegenerating surveys with young people which were conducted every three years to produce longitudinal network data.…”

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“…Bidart and Lavenu (2005, 373) It was therefore necessary to gain both an 'outsider' view on the network structure and an 'insider's' perception of the network, and these dual aims were responsible for producing a 'mixed method design' (Chiu andWest 2007, 1918). A similar rationale for mixing methods was adopted by Bellotti (2008) in her study of the friendship networks of young single people in Milan, Italy. Bellotti used a name-generator technique to map the friendship networks of egos in UCINET, and then conducted biographical interviews to explore how friendship is variously defined and how the meaning and significance of friendship ties changes over time.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Social Network Analysis (SNA)

Crossley¹

2017

The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology

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Social Network Analysis (SNA) has received growing attention in methodological debates in the social sciences. Recent mathematical developments and user-friendly computer programmes for visualising and measuring networks have led to significant advances in quantitative SNA. Amidst these developments, however, there have been calls for the revival of qualitative approaches to social networks, not necessarily to supplant quantitative methods, but to complement them. Quantitative approaches map and measure networks by simplifying social relations into numerical data, where ties are either absent or present. They therefore bracket out questions of crucial importance to understanding the kinds of human interaction networks studied by social scientists. Qualitative approaches, on the other hand, enable analysts to consider issues relating to the construction, reproduction, variability and dynamics of complex social ties. This paper considers the arguments for adopting a mixed-method approach to network analysis, firstly as they arise out of the existing research literature, and secondly, as they have been highlighted in explicit theoretical debates about combining quantitative and qualitative data and analysis. By unpacking the different ways in which researchers have combined quantitative and qualitative methods in network projects it also seeks to provide some guidance for others on 'how to' mix methods in SNA. In particular, it reviews literature in which quantitative SNA has been combined with interviews, ethnography and historical archival research and considers the benefits of these strategies. On a theoretical note, the paper considers suggestions that mixing quantitative and qualitative approaches can enable researchers to explore the structure (or form) of networks from an 'outsider's' view, and the content and processes of networks from an 'insider's' view. It also refers to recent discussions which suggest that SNA offers a particular opportunity for mixing methods because networks are both structure and process at the same time, and therefore evade simple categorisation as either quantitative or qualitative phenomena.Gemma Edwards is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research interests lie in social theory, social movements, and social network analysis. Her recent work involves contemporary applications of Habermas's social theory to trade union decline and renewal in the UK public sector. She is currently exploring the role played by social networks in social movements using a mixed-method approach. She is involved in a project (2009/10) exploring militant social networks through case studies of the British Suffragettes and the IRA using historical archival research and SNA.

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“…Notwithstanding, the age diversity observed across friendship groups is quite surprising and shows that individuals build strong friendship relations not only within their age-mates (as shown by the group FM14), but also with older and younger individuals. This suggests that the notion of friendship within the Rabari community has a stronger vertical component than the notion of friendship in western societies (Allan 1989, Bellotti 2008.…”

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Comigrants and friends: informal networks and the transmission of traditional ecological knowledge among seminomadic pastoralists of Gujarat, India

Salpeteur¹,

Patel²,

Molina³

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. 2016. Comigrants and friends: informal networks and the transmission of traditional ecological knowledge among seminomadic pastoralists of Gujarat, India. Ecology and Society 21 (2) ABSTRACT. Previous research has shown that social organization may affect the distribution of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) within local communities of natural resource users in multiple ways. However, in this line of research the potential role of informal relationships has mostly been overlooked. In this article, we contribute toward filling this research gap by studying how two types of informal relationships, namely migration partnership and friendship, affect the distribution of TEK within a community of seminomadic pastoralists from the Kutch area, Gujarat, India. Using social network analysis, we map three networks, migration, men friendship, and women friendship, and compare with similarity-based quantitative approaches the clusters extracted from these networks in relation to four domains of TEK: knowledge about soils, about ethnoveterinary practices, about sheep breeds, and in ethnobotany.Our results show that (1) migration clusters are associated to significant variations in three TEK domains, while (2) friendship clusters are associated to minor variations. We relate these results to the importance of common practical experiences involved by joint migration. Moreover, kin relations are shown to strongly underlie friendship and migration relations, and as such appear as a potential driver of the dynamics of the local TEK system. We conclude by advocating for a better inclusion of such informal relationships in future research on local TEK dynamics, following recent developments in studies on natural resource governance.

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What are friends for? Elective communities of single people

Cited by 63 publications

References 28 publications

Social networks and neurological illness

Social networks and neurological illness

Social Network Analysis (SNA)

Comigrants and friends: informal networks and the transmission of traditional ecological knowledge among seminomadic pastoralists of Gujarat, India

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