Networks in the Global Village - Life in Contemporary Communities

Networks in the Global Village examines how people live through personal communities: their networks of friends, neighbors, relatives, and coworkers. It is the first book to compare the communities of people around the world.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Network Community: An Introduction, 1 The Elements of Personal Communities, 2 The Network Basis of Social Support: A Network Is More Than the Sum of Its Ties, 3 Neighbor Networks of Black and White Americans, 4 Social Networks Among the Urban Poor: Inequality and Integration in a Latin American City, 5 The Diversity of Personal Networks in France: Social Stratification and Relational Structures, 6 Network Capital in Capitalist, Communist, and Postcommunist Countries, 7 Getting a Job Through a Web of Guanxi in China, 8 Personal Community Networks in Contemporary Japan, 9 Using Social Networks to Exit Hong Kong, 10 Net-Surfers Don't Ride Alone: Virtual Communities as Communities,

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Barry Wellman

Zusammenfassung

Networks in the Global Village examines how people live through personal communities: their networks of friends, neighbors, relatives, and coworkers. It is the first book to compare the communities of people around the world.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Barry Wellman, Wellman Barry
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 19.08.2019
• EAN: 9780367316990
• ISBN: 978-0-367-31699-0
• Seiten: 404
• Themen: Sachbuch > Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft > Politik; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Society & culture: general, Society and culture: general