SOC294H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Mark Granovetter, Balance Theory, Smallworld
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In the weak sector, however, not only will ego"s contacts not be tied to one another, but they will be tied to individuals not tied to ego. Indirect contacts are thus typically reached through ties in this sector. In a random sample of recent professional, technical, and managerial job changers living in a. Boston suburb, the author asked who found a new job through contacts, how often they saw the contact around the tie that he passed on job information to them. In a community marked by geographic immobility and lifelong friendships (p. 19) it strains credulity to suppose that each person would not have known a great many others, so that there would have been some weak ties. Micro and macro network models: the discussion does not lend itself to elucidation of the internal structure of small groups, one immediate difference between the model and the authors is that it is cast in terms of.
