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Barry,
My Mongolian networks (average of 15 alters) are bigger than
former E. German Networks (average of 10.6) and contain many
more friendship ties and acquaintanceship ties. I don't know
whether this is because of the economy (which is pretty awful) or
maybe because Mongolians are a more sociable lot. Most of my
respondents' ties were not geographically close, but scattered all
over the city of Ulaanbaatar.
Cheers,
Kate
Date sent: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:45:34 -0500
From: Barry Wellman <[log in to unmask]>
To: Beatte Volker <[log in to unmask]>,
Catherine Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: transition and personal networks
Cate and Beate,
This raises an interesting research question:
Do networks shrink and rise in step with the economy?
Bigger GNP > bigger nets
Biggern nets > Bigger GDP
?
Barry
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On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Catherine Johnson wrote:
> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:19:27 -0500
> From: Catherine Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: transition and personal networks
>
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> Also check out:
> Beate Volker, "Should auld acquaintance be forgot...?: Institutions
> of Communism, the Transition to Capitalism and Personal
> Networks: The Case of East Germany", Amsterdam Thesis
> Publishers, 1995.
>
> She found that in former East Germany personal networks shrunk
> somewhat during transition.
>
> Kate
>
>
> Date sent: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:00:51 -0500
> Send reply to: Emmanuel Koku <[log in to unmask]>
> From: Emmanuel Koku <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: transition and personal networks
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
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> Hi,
> HI,
>
> Check out Endre Sik (with Hungarian data) & Vicente Espinoza's (with Latin American data) articl
es in Barry Wellman's book: Networks in the Global Village (Boulder, CO: Westview Press)
>
> In addition, research from the development literature (especially, those relating to responses to
IMF/World Bank's structural adjustment policies) show how networks can be used to gain access to s
carce but neccessary resources (food, shelter and clothing). I don't have references right on hand
,
> but can dig further.
>
> /Em
>
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> >>> Sam Friedman <[log in to unmask]> 01/29/03 07:58am >>>
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> I just reached Buenos Aires for a week to help start a study on social
> influences on sexual and social networks, and drug user networks, in a
> poor neighborhood in a time of transition and turmoil. We will be
> working on the questionnaire over the next 2 or 3 months.
>
> I would like any ideas on either Olga s question or those raised by my
> study.
>
> Sam Friedman
> National Development and Research Institutes
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> >>> Olga Mayorova <[log in to unmask]> 01/28/03 14:45 PM >>>
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> Hello all,
>
> Help needed. I have been trying to find citations supporting the
> statement
> that in times of social and economic transition individuals rely more on
> their personal networks rather than on formal institutions in their
> economic
> activities, and in particular in job searches. But my efforts were
> unsuccessful. From what I have found I got the impression that authors
> assume it to be a well-known social fact and do not cite any important
> works
> that have provided support for it's truthfulness. Any help with
> citations on
> this topic will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Olga
>
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