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Dr Stokes,

We'd appreciate it if you could explain in some more detail why you
haven't found Kenneth Bailey's Social Entropy work to be of any use.

thanks,
 Barry Wellman
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> Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 18:10:02 -0000
> From: Paul Stokes <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Social entropy
>
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> Rhonda,
>
> I never found Bailey's work to be of much use. Yoy may however want to check
> out my Viability of Societies: Governance and Complexity Today.
>
> Here is the Amazon link:
> http://www.amazon.com/Viability-Societies-Governance-Complexity-Today/dp/3639111966/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234116281&sr=1-1
>
> Get back to me if there anything I can help you with.
>
> Paul A. Stokes PhD
> School of Sociology
> UCD Dublin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rhonda McEwen" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 7:10 PM
> Subject: Social entropy
>
> > Hi SocNetters:
> >
> > I am a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto (Faculty of Information)
> > looking at youth mobile phone information practices vis-a-vis their
> > personal networks. I have come across Social Entropy (e.g. Kenneth
> > Bailey's work) and wondered if anyone has done/ knows of research on
> > networks that use this concept?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rhonda McEwen
> > iSchool @ University of Toronto
> > rhonda dot mcewen at utoronto dot ca
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