Structural Cohesion and Embeddedness: A hierarchical conception of social groups.

@misc{moody_cohesion:2003, abstract = {While questions about social cohesion lie at the core of our discipline, definitions are often vague and difficult to operationalize. We link research on social cohesion and social embeddedness by developing a conception of structural cohesion based on network nodeconnectivity. Structural cohesion is defined as the minimum number of actors who, if removed from a group, would disconnect the group. A structural dimension of embeddedness can then be defined through the hierarchical nesting of...}, author = {Moody, James and White, Douglas }, citeulike-article-id = {2873903}, posted-at = {2008-06-08 20:53:20}, priority = {2}, title = {Structural Cohesion and Embeddedness: A hierarchical conception of social groups.}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/528601.html}, year = {2003} }

TY - GEN ID - moody_cohesion:2003 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2873903 N2 - While questions about social cohesion lie at the core of our discipline, definitions are often vague and difficult to operationalize. We link research on social cohesion and social embeddedness by developing a conception of structural cohesion based on network nodeconnectivity. Structural cohesion is defined as the minimum number of actors who, if removed from a group, would disconnect the group. A structural dimension of embeddedness can then be defined through the hierarchical nesting of... TI - Structural Cohesion and Embeddedness: A hierarchical conception of social groups. AU - Moody, James AU - White, Douglas PY - 2003/// UR - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/528601.html ER -