SOC355H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Observational Error, Claude S. Fischer, Ideal Type
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Last week you learned: knowing networks and core networks are important, knowing networks are bigger than core networks. A lot bigger: people meet people in settings where they do things with other people (foci). This is bound to create transitivity: foci are homogenous, so relationships created in foci are often homophilous, don"t be a lazy sample critic. What you should be taking back from articles . About the idea of community and it is a question. The question is: how size and density of networks have changed, on the theoretical level it is about how community has changed with industrialization and modernization . Good old days wellman argues that they are kind of imaginary. They are what we think networks were like in some ideal past world. Example: grandparents imagining things used to be different. To some extent it is imaginary but we do use it to contrast.
