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Giuffre, Katherine Anne.

Communities and networks :using social network analysis to rethink urban and community studies /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Communities and networks :Katherine Giuffre.
Reminder of title:	using social network analysis to rethink urban and community studies /
Author:	Giuffre, Katherine Anne.
Published:	Cambridge :Polity,2013.
Description:	viii, 227 p. :ill. ;23 cm.
Subject:	Cities and townsStudy and teaching.
ISBN:	0745654193 :

Communities and networks :using social network analysis to rethink urban and community studies /
Giuffre, Katherine Anne.

Communities and networks :using social network analysis to rethink urban and community studies /Katherine Giuffre. - Cambridge :Polity,2013. - viii, 227 p. :ill. ;23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-221) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. What is network analysis and how can it be useful? -- What is structure? -- Networks as metaphors -- Metaphor into method -- What isa social network? -- Further developments -- Why use network analysis? -- Plan of the book -- Software -- A closer look: basic network terms and definitions -- Entering and displaying matrices in UCINET6 -- 2. What is a community? Where does it come from? -- Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft -- Durkheim: mechanical and organic solidarity -- Simmel: individuality and social groups -- "The duality of persons and groups" -- Cohesion -- A closer look: matrix multiplication -- Matrix multiplication in UCINET6 -- 3. What do communities do forus? -- Gift exchanges as social support and obligation -- The world the slaves made -- Different types of support --Conjugal roles and social networks -- Agency in networks -- The Search for an Abortionist -- A closer look: density -- Calculating density in UCINET6 -- 4. How do communitiesshape identity? -- Community and ethnicity in Chicago -- Minorities, majorities, and the weight of numbers -- Assimilation in Chicago -- Small worlds and six degrees ofseparation -- "The strength of weak ties" -- The disadvantages of strong communities -- A closer look: balance -- 5. What happens when communities become fractured? -- Witchcraft in Salem -- Arson and the Indochinese in East Boston -- Isolation and atomization inGermany -- A closer look: centrality -- How to calculate centrality in UCINET6 -- 6. How do communities mobilize for collective action and social movements? -- Riots in Washington -- Urban revolt in Paris -- Recruiting high-risk activists -- Structuring connections -- A closer look: structural equivalence -- How to find structural equivalence with UCINET6 -- 7. How do communities foster creativity and innovation? -- Social networks and innovative thinking -- The creative context of the city --Small world structures -- The Apple example -- A closer look: correspondence analysis -- Doing correspondence analysis in UCINET6 -- 8. How do new communities differ from traditional communities? -- Rethinking the concept ofcommunity -- Cyber utopians vs. cyber dystopians -- A different kind of space -- The structure of the web -- A closer look: multidimensional scaling -- Doing multidimensional scaling in UCINET6

In Communities and Networks, Katherine Giuffre takes the science of social network analysis and applies it to key issues of living in communities, especially in urban areas,exploring question such as: How do commmunities shape our lives and identities? How do they foster either conformityor innovation? What holds communities together and what happens when they fragment or fall apart? How community life changing in response to technological advances?" -Back cover

ISBN: 0745654193 :NT$1856

LCCN: 2012277464 Subjects--Topical Terms:

669435
Cities and towns
--Study and teaching.

LC Class. No.: HM756 / G58

Dewey Class. No.: 307.76

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