Abstract
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.
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Dual (grammatical number)Social structureMeaning (existential)Network structureSociologyPosition (finance)Population structurePopulationSocial network (sociolinguistics)EpistemologyComputer scienceSocial psychologyTheoretical computer sciencePsychologyPolitical scienceLinguisticsDemographyEconomics
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- 81
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 730-780
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- 2046
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Harrison C. White,
Scott A. Boorman,
Ronald L. Breiger
(1976).
Social Structure from Multiple Networks. I. Blockmodels of Roles and Positions.
American Journal of Sociology
, 81
(4)
, 730-780.
https://doi.org/10.1086/226141
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- DOI
- 10.1086/226141