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***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/ ***** "Nothing new under the sun" There is Arthur Schnitzler's LaRonde, written in 1896-97, but because of censorship not premiered until 1921 in Vienna ... I am glad network analysis is so racy. At 05:15 PM 9/25/02 -0400, David Gibson wrote: >***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/ ***** > >For a time Peter Bearman and one of his co-authors (I forget which -- >maybe s/he is listening) were floating a paper on the dating (or maybe >sexual) network in a US high school, which had as one striking and >improbable finding that the largest subcomponent was a big loop, >involving maybe 100-200 people. I'm not sure what happened to it. > >More relevant, perhaps, is > >Bearman, Peter. 1997. "Generalized Exchange." American Journal of >Sociology 102:1383-1415. > >There's some evidence in this paper of a cycle among villages sending >their women out for marriage (if I recall correctly). I remember reading >the paper and thinking, perhaps because Bearman said as much, that >cyclical exchange is the logical consequence of actors each with an >indegree of one and an outdegree of one, under the constraint that there >are no self-sufficient dyads. > >DRG > >Juan Manuel Larrosa wrote: > >>***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/ ***** >> >>Colleagues: >>I have developed with a colleague of mine an economic model of network >>formation. Results gave us circular network architecture as optimal >>structure. It means that individual are full connected but in row where the >>last one individual must be connected with the first one. A quite simple >>example could be this: >> >> A >> / \ >> / \ >> / \ >> B-------C >> >>I've read sociological literature where this structure could be assimilated >>to a clique network, but I'm suspicious about other potential implications >>in social networks research. Does anyone remember another social network >>architecture (with real examples) where this circle form could emerge? >>Specific references are welcome... >> >>Thanks in advance, >> >>Juan >> >> >>------------------------------------------ >>Juan Manuel Larrosa >>PhD Candidate >>CONICET- Universidad Nacional del Sur >>San Juan y 12 de Octubre >>Planta Baja - Gabinete 5 >>(8000) Bahia Blanca >>ARGENTINA >>http://jlarrosa.tripod.com [updated] >> >>TE (0291) 459 5101 Ext 2735 >> >>_____________________________________________________________________ >>SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social >>network researchers (http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/). To unsubscribe, send >>an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line >>UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message. > >-- >David Gibson >Assistant Professor >Department of Sociology >Harvard University >536 William James Hall >33 Kirkland Street >Cambridge, MA 02138 > >Voice: (617) 495-3825 >Fax: (617) 496-5794 > >_____________________________________________________________________ >SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social >network researchers (http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/). To unsubscribe, send >an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line >UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message. _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.