Social Structure from Multiple Networks. II. Role Structures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7609050 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Scott A Boorman, Harrison C White |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1384-1446 |
| Publication date | 1976-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/226228 |
| OpenAlex | W2109743555 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 285 |
| References cited | 36 |
Role structures in small populations are given operational meaning as algebras generated from the sociometric blockmodels of Part I by Boolean multiplication (matrix multiplication employing binary arithmetic). Many different sociometric structures can yield the same algebraic multiplication table, which captures a different level of social structure. Elements of the algebras are interpreted concretely as compound roles, and interlock among these roles is studied through investigation of their algebraic properties (equations and inclusions). Similarities and differences among algebras from six case studies are explored by means of homomorphisms as well as by multidimensional scaling on a derivative numerical distance measure. Results for particular populations, including reliability and stability tests, are summarized through simple target tables reporting aggregations of more complicated role structures
Algebra over a field · Algebraic number · Algebraic operation · Algebraic structure · Arithmetic · Binary number · Binary operation · Combinatorics · Data mining · Discrete mathematics · Homomorphism · Multiplication (music) · Pure mathematics · Simple (philosophy) · Table (database) · Complex Network Analysis Techniques · Computer Science · Mathematics · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
Link prediction in directed social networks
On the discovery of social roles in large scale social systems
Generalised blockmodelling of social and relational networks using evolutionary computing
Networks and Economic life
Reconstruction en sciences sociales
Analysis on the Spatial-Temporal Evolution Characteristics and Spatial Network Structure of Tourism Eco-Efficiency in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration
Power and Core-Periphery Networks
Spatial correlation network and population mobility effect of regional haze pollution
Behavioral versus cognitive classroom friendship networks
What is an Empire? Assessing the postcolonial contribution to the American Empire Debate
Looking Back and Forging Ahead
An Evolving Triadic World
Networks in Archaeology
From Metaphors to Practice
Working in Practice But Not in Theory
Shifting Vantage and Conceptual Puzzles in Understanding Public Organization Networks1
Die analytische Soziologie
Using cellular data to analyze the tourists' trajectories for tourism destination attributes
Lawyers of the Right
Social Networks and Climate Change Policy Preferences
The Cultural Turn in Sociology
Cultural elites and the institutionalization of ideas
Jackknife and Bootstrap Estimates for Cluster Validation
Social Grammar for Culture
Network Analysis
Hidden Meanings
Contact, Support, and Friction
Detecting role equivalence
Analysing networks of networks
The distant core
Mapping social milieus and cohesion patterns between 1997 and 2014. Exploiting the potential of the occupational position generator
A multiple indicator approach to blockmodeling signed networks
Representing degree distributions, clustering, and homophily in social networks with latent cluster random effects models
A note on sociometric order in the general social survey network data
Are social equivalences ever regular
Influentials, novelty, and social contagion
Identifying cohesive subgroups
Partitioning signed social networks
Recent Developments in Role Theory
Social Structure as a Network Process / Sozialstruktur als ein Netzwerk-Prozeß
Why can collective action fail in Local Agri-food Systems? A social network analysis of cheese producers in Aculco, Mexico
Historic networks and commemoration
Beyond the antinomies of structure
Sin Coyote Ni Patrón
Co-Offending and Criminal Careers
Collaboration and Culture
Emergence and Completion of Structure in Initially Undefined and Partially Defined Groups
Forum
Social Networks and Collective Action
Blockmodels
Structures of Mediation
Local Blockmodel Algebras for Analyzing Social Networks
The Allocation of Time among Individuals
The Self as a Fuzzy Set of Roles, Role Theory as a Fuzzy System
Production Markets as Induced Role Structures
Roles and Positions
Explorer les réseaux à l'échelle de la triade
The Web of Conformity
Tenir le haut de l'affiche
Coévolution des auteurs et des concepts dans les réseaux épistémiques
Sociological classification and cluster analysis
Some algebraic structures for diffusion in social networks
Equivalence in a social network
Data without (operational) variables
An approach for relating social structure to cognitive structure
Power Mapping
The World System Paradigm as General Theory of Development
The Social Organization of Sociological Knowledge
National Industrial Structure and the Global System
Migration, Medical Care Preferences and the Lay Referral System
The Group Structure of Cocitation Clusters
Structural Bases of Interpersonal Influence in Groups
Political Holes in the Economy
Durkheim, Suicide, and Religion
Local Roles and Social Networks
Bringing Process into Structure
The Structure and Function of Complex Networks
Classifications in Popular Music
Networks at Harvard University Sociology
Status and Role
Switchings Among Netdoms
Social Structure
Toward an Integrated Science of Morality
Social Networks, Algebra of
Culture and Networks
A Connected World
Social Networks and Health
Estimation and Prediction for Stochastic Blockstructures
Logit models and logistic regressions for social networks
Tackling connections, structure, and meaning in networks
Social Networks Matter. But How?
Multilayer networks
Cross‐Talk in Movements
Introduction
‘Leaders’ Or Brokers? Positions and Influence in Social Movement Networks
Beyond Structural Analysis
An Exponential Family of Probability Distributions for Directed Graphs
Constructing blockmodels
Stigma and the Sociological Enterprise
The Sociology of Social Structure
Social exchange theory
On theory and verification in sociology
Introduction to Mathematical Sociology
The industrial mobility of labor as a probability process
The acquaintance process.
A Treatise on Probability
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Multidimensional Scaling by Optimizing Goodness of Fit to a Nonmetric Hypothesis
Hierarchical Clustering Schemes
A Method of Matrix Analysis of Group Structure
An algorithm for clustering relational data with applications to social network analysis and comparison with multidimensional scaling
The Analysis of Proximities
Symbolic psycho-logic
The adolescent society
Constructing social theories
The profession of arms
Structural equivalence of individuals in social networks
Social Structure from Multiple Networks. I. Blockmodels of Roles and Positions
Clustering and Structural Balance in Graphs
Local Structure in Social Networks
Career Attributes and Network Structure
Essays in Sociological Theory
Social Theory and Social Structure
My enemy's enemy is my friend
Rules, Roles, and Relations
Presidential Address
Organizations as Semilattices
Measuring the development of kinship terminologies
The Theory of Social Structure
Political Systems of Highland Burma
Kalmuk Mongol and the Classification of Lineal Kinship Terminologies
A Generalization of the Cross/Parallel Distinction1
Network Sampling
Political Judgments and the Perception of Social Relationships
Management Conflict and Sociometric Structure
| Unique citing works | 285 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,7 |
| Citation span | 1976 - 2025 (50) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 210 |