SOC356Y1 Study Guide - Erving Goffman, Matrix Group
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Techniques are useful in the study of director interlocks, clique structures, organizations within community and national power structures, and other collectivities which share members. Levine: concept of dualism key principle underlying simmel"s social thought. Set of individuals and a set of groups such that the value of a tie between any two individuals is defined as the number of groups of which they both are members. Value of a tie between any two groups is defined conversely as the number of persons who belong to both. Construct a matrix of interpersonal ties (denoted p) Separate matrix of intergroup toes (denoted g) Matrix group: matrices are mutually noncomparable in the following ways: they represent different levels of structure (persons and groups, they are not of the same dimensions, they differ in their cell by cell entries. Although these differences between the interpersonal network and the intergroup network and the intergroup network are quite evident.
