Das Buch führt in die Netzwerkforschung ein, mehr noch möchte es aber als innovativer Forschungsbeitrag zur Untersuchung ihrer Grundlagen gesehen werden. Als Elemente sind beteiligt: Die soziale Situation, die angesichts meist weniger Beteiligter die Untersuchung von Mikronetzwerken nahelegt....

Das Werk präsentiert Methoden und theoretische Perspektiven, die zum Verständnis dieser unterschiedlichen Varianten des Phänomens "Netzwerk" beitragen. Zudem liefert es Einblicke in eine Reihe vonPraxisfeldern der Netzwerk-Gesellschaft

This paper links the two nascent economic literatures on social networks and cultural assimilation by investigating the evolution of population attributes in a simple model where agents are influenced by their acquaintances. The main conclusion of the analysis is that attributes converge to a...

We review the literature on pathways through which social networks may influence social mobility in developing countries. We find that social networks support members in tangible ways-via access to opportunities for migration, credit, trading relationships, information on jobs, and new...

We highlight that convergence in repeated averaging models commonly used to study cultural traits or opinion dynamics is not equivalent to convergence in Markov chain settings if transition matrices are time-varying. We then establish a new proof for the convergence of cultural traits in the...

This paper links the two nascent economic literatures on social networks and cultural assimilation by investigating the evolution of population attributes in a simple model where agents are influenced by their acquaintances. The main conclusion of the analysis is that attributes converge to a...