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.

List of contents

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,

About the author

Barry Wellman

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Barry Wellman, Wellman Barry
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.08.2019
• EAN: 9780367316990
• ISBN: 978-0-367-31699-0
• No. of pages: 404
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Society & culture: general, Society and culture: general