Tie-formation mechanisms like homophily, reciprocity, transitivity, and preferential
attachment operate to varying degrees across contexts. Romantic ties tend to be …

Partnership ties shape friendship networks through different social forces. First, partnership
ties drive clustering in friendship networks: individuals who are in a partnership tend to have …

A typical assumption in formal studies of social networks is that interpersonal ties classified
under the same label carry the same cultural connotation. As cultural meanings matter for …

This article combines studies of transitivity and homophily in an empirical analysis of
personal network integration. Using a national sample of individual's personal networks, the …

Owing to rapid advances in available data and methods, social network analysis has
recently been propelled into a new era: Instead of documenting patterns in static network …

Though religion matters greatly to many US adults, it is widely considered a touchy
conversational topic. Understanding how religious issues are talked about with others can …

Personal relationships are embedded in both spatial and relational contexts. Using data on
60 intentional communities from the Urban Communes Data Set, we examine how such …

This article examines homophily—the tendencies for people with similar characteristics to
interact with one another—and how social structure gives rise to network autocorrelation …

Despite the growing potential for multiplexity in our complex social world, social network
methodology often does not adequately capture this phenomenon. Most commonly in …

Connected is presented in nine chapters. The first details general principles of social
networks. These include the fundamentals of connectedness (eg, the idea that individuals …