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***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/ ***** Nice definition, David. I think I invented the term in the paper I mentioned, but without David's elegant definition. We used it in the East York study to see if support relationships varied by being just a dyad or as part of a larger net. However, I can easily stand to be corrected on inital authorship. It might have come from Harrison White's lectures at Harvard in the mid 1960s. One term I do claim authorship for is "network of networks." Actually "we." Paul Craven and I invented it for our "The Network City" paper in 1973, and now it is all over internet discourse. Phrase-Making Barry ___________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director [log in to unmask] http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 ___________________________________________________________________ On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, David Gibson wrote: > Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:23:16 -0500 > From: David Gibson <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Definition of structural embeddedness > > ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/ ***** > > This entails both a mundane empirical observation, and an important > theoretical claim. The observation is that people have relationships > with one another, and that these relationships are constituted by > feelings of obligation and entitlement and by recurring encounters. The > theoretical claim is that these relationships are important for > individual-level outcomes, and that, further, it is the structure of > these relations -- rather than, say, their mere quantity -- that is > important. Thus, structural embeddedness refers to the patterns of > relationships in which people (and actors at other levels) are > recurringly involved, where these patterns are consequential for > outcomes by virtue of mechanisms of information flow, social influence, > social comparison, material exchange, social-support provision or > deprivation, and other mechanisms. > > Van den Bulte, Christophe wrote: > > >***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/ ***** > > > >I am looking for a definition of structural embeddedness, either > >home-made or taken from a previous publication. I already have > >Granovetter's 1992 paper on "Problems of Explanation in Economic > >Sociology." > > > >Christophe Van den Bulte > >The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania > > > >_____________________________________________________________________ > >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.