Barry Wellman

Networks In The Global Village

Life In Contemporary Communities

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Produktbeschreibung

An examination of how people around the world live through personal communities: their networks of friends, neighbours, relatives and work colleagues. Each article, written by a resident, aims to show how living in a country affects the ways in which people use networks to access resources.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 583g
• ISBN-13: 9780813368214
• ISBN-10: 0813368219
• Artikelnr.: 21195230

Autorenporträt

Barry Wellman

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
The Network Community: An Introduction
The Elements of Personal Communities
The Network Basis of Social Support: A Network Is More Than the Sum of Its Ties
Neighbor Networks of Black and White Americans
Social Networks Among the Urban Poor: Inequality and Integration in a Latin American City
The Diversity of Personal Networks in France: Social Stratification and Relational Structures
Network Capital in Capitalist, Communist, and Postcommunist Countries
Getting a Job Through a Web of Guanxi in China
Personal Community Networks in Contemporary Japan
Using Social Networks to Exit Hong Kong
Net
Surfers Don't Ride Alone: Virtual Communities as Communities