N Gondal
Biographic Data
| ID | 14529 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Gondal |
| GIVEN NAMES | N |
| FAMILY NAME | Gondal |
| SIGNATURE | GONDAL N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7337-9072 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Staying in Place, Staying Connected: Exploring Tie-Retention to Inform Network-Based Health Interventions in Public Housing Communities
The COVID‐19 pandemic disrupted human relationships through public health distancing mandates and migration shifts. These changes had the potential to be especially disruptive in public housing, which are government‐funded developments for housing low‐income, frequently mobile, populations. In light of these social upheavals, our goal is to leverage this natural experiment to understand the persistence of relationships, measured as ties in social…
Predicting social network homophily on common chronic disease risk behaviors among public housing residents
Attributes and behaviors tend to cluster (homophily) among connected individuals (social networks). Accordingly, the design of effective interventions to address chronic disease risk behaviors at the individual level has proven challenging. To effectively move behavior-change interventions upstream, beyond the individual, an understanding of behavior clustering within a social context is required. This ego-centric/participant reported social netw…
Professor-writers and machinist-painter-photographers: Investigating the duality between occupational categories and artistic hobbies
Rulenet: Mapping the structure of cultural preferences using association-rules and network graphs
Networks from culture: Mechanisms of tie-formation follow institutionalized rules in social fields
Tie-formation mechanisms like homophily, reciprocity, transitivity, and preferential attachment operate to varying degrees across contexts. Romantic ties tend to be homophilous by age, education, and ethnicity, and to remain dyadic. Scientific citations, in contrast, fall into highly unequal preferential attachment patterns. Triangulation is nearly absent in advice and patronage networks but features prominently in friendship ties. Building on re…
In search of the suitable candidate: The Role of Status, Upstream and Downstream Diversity in Recruitment Partnerships
We conceptualize recruitment partnerships between higher education institutions (HEIs) and accounting firms as a social network. While elite closure is known to be typical of such relationships, we posit that commitments to improving organizational diversity should curtail this tendency. Yet, whereas diversity in employee recruitment is culturally institutionalized, there are no imperatives encouraging HEIs to partner with diverse firms, what we …
The gap between public evaluations and interactional status in social networks
Health-based homophily in public housing developments
Public housing residents in the United States face disproportionately high risks for disease, presenting an urgent need for interventions. Evidence suggests interventions leveraging social networks can be successful when relationships are homophilous, as this leads to pooling of risk behaviors among interconnected alters. Yet, we know little about networks of public housing residents. To assess the feasibility of network-based interventions, we i…
Diffusion of innovations through social networks: Determinants and implications
Social scientists have long been interested in the diffusion of innovations—the process by which new ideas, behavior, and practices spread between persons, organizations, and even countries. While innovations can enter a community through various channels, ongoing spread of innovations through a community occurs through the medium of social networks—collections of interpersonal or digital relationships connecting actors to each other. Social netw…
Multiplexity as a lens to investigate the cultural meanings of interpersonal ties
Duality of departmental specializations and PhD exchange: A Weberian analysis of status in interaction using multilevel exponential random graph models (mERGM)
Networks and Meaning
Inequality Preservation through Uneven Diffusion of Cultural Materials across Stratified Groups
Inequality between groups is frequently maintained through the construction and legitimation of inter-group cultural differences. I draw on Blau’s multiform heterogeneity and complex contagion models to theorize and develop a relational mechanism that shows how inequality can be preserved when additional, new bases of differentiating between groups layer over existing ones. I investigate the conditions under which variations in the distribution o…
The Circulation of Interpersonal Credit in Renaissance Florence
We analyze a network of 3,590 interpersonal credit ties among Renaissance Florentine elite households to determine how Florentine personal credit was socially structured. We assess the network in light of various social and economic motivations Florentines might have had to exchange credit with each other. We explore the extent of participation by people from different categories, such as neighborhoods, factions, and guilds, and we determine whet…
What makes a network go round? Exploring the structure of a strong component with exponential random graph models
Linking tie-meaning with network structure: Variable connotations of personal lending in a multiple-network ecology
Who “Fills in” for Siblings and How? A Multilevel Analysis of Personal Network Composition and Its Relationship to Sibling Size 1
In the midst of widespread fertility decline, I examine the relationship between sibling number and support network composition using multilevel regression on data from 25 countries. A fundamental structural effect of having fewer siblings is that individuals have a smaller pool of available close‐kin alters with whom to construct support networks. Consequently, networks of people with fewer siblings should be composed of different sorts of relat…
The local and global structure of knowledge production in an emergent research field: An exponential random graph analysis
Multiplexity as a lens to investigate the cultural meanings of interpersonal ties
Linking tie-meaning with network structure: Variable connotations of personal lending in a multiple-network ecology
Who “Fills in” for Siblings and How? A Multilevel Analysis of Personal Network Composition and Its Relationship to Sibling Size 1
In the midst of widespread fertility decline, I examine the relationship between sibling number and support network composition using multilevel regression on data from 25 countries. A fundamental structural effect of having fewer siblings is that individuals have a smaller pool of available close‐kin alters with whom to construct support networks. Consequently, networks of people with fewer siblings should be composed of different sorts of relat…
Diffusion of innovations through social networks: Determinants and implications
Social scientists have long been interested in the diffusion of innovations—the process by which new ideas, behavior, and practices spread between persons, organizations, and even countries. While innovations can enter a community through various channels, ongoing spread of innovations through a community occurs through the medium of social networks—collections of interpersonal or digital relationships connecting actors to each other. Social netw…
Rulenet: Mapping the structure of cultural preferences using association-rules and network graphs
The Circulation of Interpersonal Credit in Renaissance Florence
We analyze a network of 3,590 interpersonal credit ties among Renaissance Florentine elite households to determine how Florentine personal credit was socially structured. We assess the network in light of various social and economic motivations Florentines might have had to exchange credit with each other. We explore the extent of participation by people from different categories, such as neighborhoods, factions, and guilds, and we determine whet…
The local and global structure of knowledge production in an emergent research field: An exponential random graph analysis
Who “Fills in” for Siblings and How? A Multilevel Analysis of Personal Network Composition and Its Relationship to Sibling Size 1
In the midst of widespread fertility decline, I examine the relationship between sibling number and support network composition using multilevel regression on data from 25 countries. A fundamental structural effect of having fewer siblings is that individuals have a smaller pool of available close‐kin alters with whom to construct support networks. Consequently, networks of people with fewer siblings should be composed of different sorts of relat…
What makes a network go round? Exploring the structure of a strong component with exponential random graph models
Linking tie-meaning with network structure: Variable connotations of personal lending in a multiple-network ecology
The Circulation of Interpersonal Credit in Renaissance Florence
We analyze a network of 3,590 interpersonal credit ties among Renaissance Florentine elite households to determine how Florentine personal credit was socially structured. We assess the network in light of various social and economic motivations Florentines might have had to exchange credit with each other. We explore the extent of participation by people from different categories, such as neighborhoods, factions, and guilds, and we determine whet…
Networks and Meaning
Inequality Preservation through Uneven Diffusion of Cultural Materials across Stratified Groups
Inequality between groups is frequently maintained through the construction and legitimation of inter-group cultural differences. I draw on Blau’s multiform heterogeneity and complex contagion models to theorize and develop a relational mechanism that shows how inequality can be preserved when additional, new bases of differentiating between groups layer over existing ones. I investigate the conditions under which variations in the distribution o…
Duality of departmental specializations and PhD exchange: A Weberian analysis of status in interaction using multilevel exponential random graph models (mERGM)
Multiplexity as a lens to investigate the cultural meanings of interpersonal ties
The gap between public evaluations and interactional status in social networks
Health-based homophily in public housing developments
Public housing residents in the United States face disproportionately high risks for disease, presenting an urgent need for interventions. Evidence suggests interventions leveraging social networks can be successful when relationships are homophilous, as this leads to pooling of risk behaviors among interconnected alters. Yet, we know little about networks of public housing residents. To assess the feasibility of network-based interventions, we i…
Diffusion of innovations through social networks: Determinants and implications
Social scientists have long been interested in the diffusion of innovations—the process by which new ideas, behavior, and practices spread between persons, organizations, and even countries. While innovations can enter a community through various channels, ongoing spread of innovations through a community occurs through the medium of social networks—collections of interpersonal or digital relationships connecting actors to each other. Social netw…
Networks from culture: Mechanisms of tie-formation follow institutionalized rules in social fields
Tie-formation mechanisms like homophily, reciprocity, transitivity, and preferential attachment operate to varying degrees across contexts. Romantic ties tend to be homophilous by age, education, and ethnicity, and to remain dyadic. Scientific citations, in contrast, fall into highly unequal preferential attachment patterns. Triangulation is nearly absent in advice and patronage networks but features prominently in friendship ties. Building on re…
In search of the suitable candidate: The Role of Status, Upstream and Downstream Diversity in Recruitment Partnerships
We conceptualize recruitment partnerships between higher education institutions (HEIs) and accounting firms as a social network. While elite closure is known to be typical of such relationships, we posit that commitments to improving organizational diversity should curtail this tendency. Yet, whereas diversity in employee recruitment is culturally institutionalized, there are no imperatives encouraging HEIs to partner with diverse firms, what we …
Predicting social network homophily on common chronic disease risk behaviors among public housing residents
Attributes and behaviors tend to cluster (homophily) among connected individuals (social networks). Accordingly, the design of effective interventions to address chronic disease risk behaviors at the individual level has proven challenging. To effectively move behavior-change interventions upstream, beyond the individual, an understanding of behavior clustering within a social context is required. This ego-centric/participant reported social netw…
Professor-writers and machinist-painter-photographers: Investigating the duality between occupational categories and artistic hobbies
Rulenet: Mapping the structure of cultural preferences using association-rules and network graphs
Staying in Place, Staying Connected: Exploring Tie-Retention to Inform Network-Based Health Interventions in Public Housing Communities
The COVID‐19 pandemic disrupted human relationships through public health distancing mandates and migration shifts. These changes had the potential to be especially disruptive in public housing, which are government‐funded developments for housing low‐income, frequently mobile, populations. In light of these social upheavals, our goal is to leverage this natural experiment to understand the persistence of relationships, measured as ties in social…
Sociology (11 works) · Social Capital and Networks (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (8 works) · Mathematics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Interpersonal ties (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works)