Social Networks and Macrosocial Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2295657 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emily Erikson (0000-0003-2092-4676, Yale University), Nicholas Occhiuto (0000-0002-0620-929X, Yale University) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 229-248 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Sociology (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0360-0572 • E-ISSN: 1545-2115 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-soc-060116-053633 |
| OpenAlex | W2614827828 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 124 |
Social networks are heavily implicated in large-scale social transformations. They are both transformed and transformative. We review the ways in which social networks act as agents of change in macrohistorical processes, stressing two distinct theoretical approaches. Formalism analyzes the structure of networks. Relationalism evaluates the linking properties of networks. Using these two approaches to organize the literature, we present the current state of knowledge on the effects of social networks for four central macrohistorical outcomes: civil uprising, state formation, global and national policy formation and diffusion, and economic development and increasing inequality. We then consider new theoretical advances in institutional emergence and methodological innovations in computational modeling and their potential for reconciling and advancing existing findings and approaches on the effects of social networks on macrosocial change
Formalism (music · Social network (sociolinguistics · Transformative learning · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Capital and Networks
Material Networks and Culture Change
Thick Big Data
‘Bunkering down’
Networks rewired
War Commemoration and Nationalism in Belgium, 1914–1945
Use of social network analysis in the development, dissemination, implementation, and sustainability of health behavior interventions for adults
Glocal” and Transversal Engagement in Youth Social Movements
Old World Trade Diasporas
Complex Contagions and the Diffusion of Innovations
Silence in Social Media
Historical and Comparative Research on Social Diffusion
Social Networks in Economic History
Kinship Interlocks
The Influence of Collective Action
Culture in network breaks
Globalization and Social Movements
The micro-foundations of elite politics
Insurgent identities
From mobilization to revolution
The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
The Sources of Social Power
A simple model of global cascades on random networks
World society and human rights
The trade-creating effects of business and social networks
Business and Social Networks in International Trade
Opting out of the Legal System
People Power Change
The Mafia of a Sicilian village, 1860-1960
Capitalism from Below
Empire of Difference
Japan's Network Economy
Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World
The Structure and Dynamics of Movement Participation
Relational Sociology, Culture, and Agency
Alliance Capitalism
The Cement of Civil Society
Ordering Power
Social Movements and Networks
Trust and Rule
The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite
Immigrant Links to the Home Country
Ethnic Chinese Networks in International Trade
World-System Mobility and Economic Growth, 1980-2000
Multidimensionality and Gravity in Global Trade, 1950-2000
Population Size, Network Density, and the Emergence of Inherited Inequality
Social Structures
How Community Institutions Create Economic Advantage
Social networks and social movements
Informers and Their Social Networks in Eighteenth-Century London
Social Networks and Port Traffic in Early Modern Overseas Trade
Revolutions
Immigration and the Trade of Provinces
Bonds of Civility
The Moral Basis of a Backward Society
Nation Building. A Long-Term Perspective and Global Analysis
Civic Associations and Authoritarian Regimes in Interwar Europe
Birds of Moderately Different Feathers
The Sociology of Georg Simmel
What Role for Learning? The Diffusion of Privatisation in OECD and Latin American Countries
Interdependent and Domestic Foundations of Policy Change
The International Diffusion of Public-Sector Downsizing
Cross‐class Coalitions and the Making of the Arab Revolts of 2011
A Swiss anomaly? A relational account of national boundary-making
A Theory of the Ethnically Homogeneous Middleman Group
Patrimonialism, Elite Networks, and Reform in Late-Eighteenth-Century Poland
Homophily, networks, and critical mass
Multiple Networks and Mobilization in the Paris Commune, 1871
Chains of Cooperation
Social media in the 2011 Egyptian uprising
Keiretsu Networks and Corporate Performance in Japan
Citizenship and the Place of the Public Sphere
Keiretsu Networks in the Japanese Economy
Rebellious Alliances
Dissident Groups, Personal Networks, and Spontaneous Cooperation
The Libidinal Constitution of a High-Risk Social Movement
Executive Compensation, Fat Cats, and Best Athletes
The Worldwide Expansion of Higher Education in the Twentieth Century
The Global Rise of Democracy
Villa Victoria
Principals and Agents, Colonialists and Company Men
The Worldwide Diffusion of Market-Oriented Infrastructure Reform, 1977-1999
Structure and Dynamics of Religious Insurgency
Diffusion, Development, and Democracy, 1800-1999
Mediation in Multiple Networks
Exchange Structures in Transition
Contract enforcement, institutions, and social capital
Innovation in the States
The Persistence of Structural Inequality? A Network Analysis of International Trade, 1965-2000
Collective Identity and Informal Groups in Revolutionary Mobilization
Relations into Rhetorics
Stable Resources of Protest Movements
Dependency, Network Integration, and Development
Formalist and Relationalist Theory in Social Network Analysis
Cooperation in Unlikely Settings
Network Effects and Social Inequality
How Population Structure Shapes Neighborhood Segregation
Counterbalances to Economic Homophily
Spanning the Institutional Abyss
Struggling over the Boundaries of Belonging
Fragmented Networks and Entrepreneurship in Late Imperial Russia
Corporate Unity in American Trade Policy
Localism and the Limits of Political Brokerage
Complex Contagions and the Weakness of Long Ties
Pulled, Pushed, and Persuaded
Social Times of Network Spaces
The Intergovernmental Network of World Trade
Interlocking Directorates and Political Cohesion among Corporate Elites
Globalization Pressures and the State
Mesolevel Networks and the Diffusion of Social Movements
Ecologies of Social Movements
Manifesto for a Relational Sociology
Networks of Contention
Network Analysis, Culture, and the Problem of Agency
Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434
Trade Cohesion, Class Unity, and Urban Insurrection
Social Networks and Collective Action
Recruitment to High-Risk Activism
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |