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Hello,

What Vlado remarks is absolutely right. To say that "social network =
actors plus relations" is like saying something in the form of the old
communist formula "socialism = electrification plus soviets" :-) As
both (post-modern) relationalists and (modern) pragmatists would say,
even the equation "social network = actors plus relations plus
attributes" might be still underdetermined - because "where is l'objet
petit a?" :-)

Regards,

--Moses

PS. Yes, Loet, a network "implies" construction!


On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Vladimir Batagelj
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>  > A social category (sex, race) is not reducible to social networks.
>  > Therefore, social networks do not constitute the entirety of social
>  > organization. This is exactly my critique of Blyden Potts' definitional
>  > thesis.
>
>   It depends on the definition of social network - in most of
>   social network analysis software (Pajek, Ucinet, NetMiner, ...)
>   properties of vertices (sex, race) are considered as a part of
>   the network description. The network can also be weighted,
>   multirelational, temporal, defined on several sets, ...
>   The notion could be extended also to consider k-nary relations,
>   k > 2. There are some examples for k=3 (Lazega's leverage relation).
>
>   Vlado
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