In empirical studies of friendship networks, participants are typically asked, in interviews or
questionnaires, to identify some or all of their close friends, resulting in a directed network in …

How does segregation along ethnic boundaries emerge in social networks? Human
evolution resulted in highly social beings, capable of prosociality, mindreading, and self …

Important questions in the social sciences are concerned with the circumstances under
which individuals, organizations, or states mutually agree to form social network ties …

We study how students' social networks emerge by documenting systematic patterns in the
process of friendship formation of incoming students; these students all start out in a new …

A burgeoning literature spanning sociologies of culture and social network methods has for
the past several decades sought to explicate the relationships between culture and …

For society, network capital conveys resources, confirms identity, influences behavior, and
reinforces integrative links between individuals, households, and groups. Multilevel analysis …

Although the average number of confidants and practical helpers in Dutch networks only
slightly changes over seven years, we found considerable changes among these …

Family sociologists have usually treated kinship networks as discrete systems in Western
(post) industrial societies. While separate treatment is useful for studying such matters as …

In order to navigate a complex web of relationships, an individual must learn and represent
the connections between people in a social network. However, the sheer size and …

Granovetter's weak tie theory of social networks is built around two central hypotheses. The
first states that strong social ties carry the large majority of interaction events; the second …