Social Structures

Part 1 Thinking structurally: structural analysis - from method to metaphor to theory and substance, Barry Wellman; understanding simple social structure - kinship units and ties, Nancy Howell; the duality of persons and groups, Ronald L.Briger; the ralational basis of attitudes, Bonnie Erickson. Part 2 Communities: Networks as personal communities, Barry Wellman, Peter Carrington and Alan Hall; work and community in industrializing India, Leslie Howard; relations of production and class rule - the hidden basis of patron-clientage, Y.Michal Bodemann. Part 3 Markets: varieties of markets, Harrison White; markets and market-areas - some preliminary formulations, S.D.Berkowitz; form and substance in the analysis of the world economy, Harriet Friedmann. Part 4 Social change: misreading, then re-reading, 19th-century social change, Charles Tilly; structural location and ideological divergence - Jewish Marxist intellectuals in turn-of-the-century Russia, Robert J.Bryam; cities and fights - material entailment analysis of the 18th-century chemical revolution, Douglas R.White and H.Gilman McCann. Part 5 Social mobility: collectivity mobility and the persistence of dynasties, Lorne Tepperman; social networks and efficient resource allocation - computer models of job vacancy allocation through contacts, John Delany; occupational mobility - a structural model, Joel H.Levine and John Spadaro; toward a formal structural sociology, S.D.Berkowitz.