内容

目次

Part 1 Thinking structurally: structural analysis - from method tometaphor to theory and substance, Barry Wellman; understanding simplesocial structure - kinship units and ties, Nancy Howell; the duality ofpersons and groups, Ronald L.Briger; the ralational basis of attitudes,Bonnie Erickson. Part 2 Communities: Networks as personal communities,Barry Wellman, Peter Carrington and Alan Hall; work and community inindustrializing India, Leslie Howard; relations of production and classrule - the hidden basis of patron-clientage, Y.Michal Bodemann. Part 3Markets: varieties of markets, Harrison White; markets and market-areas- some preliminary formulations, S.D.Berkowitz; form and substance inthe analysis of the world economy, Harriet Friedmann. Part 4 Socialchange: misreading, then re-reading, 19th-century social change,Charles Tilly; structural location and ideological divergence - JewishMarxist intellectuals in turn-of-the-century Russia, Robert J.Bryam;cities and fights - material entailment analysis of the 18th-centurychemical revolution, Douglas R.White and H.Gilman McCann. Part 5 Socialmobility: collectivity mobility and the persistence of dynasties, LorneTepperman; social networks and efficient resource allocation - computermodels of job vacancy allocation through contacts, John Delany;occupational mobility - a structural model, Joel H.Levine and JohnSpadaro; toward a formal structural sociology, S.D.Berkowitz.