SOCY 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Embeddedness
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Wednesday, august 29, 2018 social networks maps of the social world. A social network begins with a tie or relationship between individuals. A tie is a relationship between one another in a network, why people have a relationship in the. Uniplex tie is when there is only one story individuals can tell about their tie, only one predominant reason for their relayionship: instrumental in nature, only one reason to be in this type of realtionship, ex. Multiplex tie is when individuals have several stories to explain the reason for their tie, many things bring them together: stronger, indures lengths of time slide 2. A direct tie is a story about or a reason for someones relationship with another person or his or herself. Relationships have a tendency to form and dissolve quickly. The numbers indicate the number of served networks to have that form. 63 instances of small networks with only one tie.