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***** 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.