Structural Models in Sociology
Douglas R. White, Frank Harary
Let's tell a simple story: people born of social networks meet markets for
schooling, friendships, work, ownership and interact through actor
choices under constraint.
- Formal Reasoning
- graph theory with properties = networks
- formal theory and substantive models
- Structural Endogamy through Relinking
- marriage and offspring
- graph theoretic blocks and cycles, dfs tree traversal
- social units: ethnicity, occupation, social class, elites
- property consolidation
- Communities and Segregation
- The Grannis Connection I: Neighborhood Relinking and Ethnic Homogeneity
- The Grannis Connection II: The Urban Transport Corridors
- Markets
- reciprocity, friendship, pooling, exchange
- core and periphery: how markets are structured
- social games and the economy
- Network Flows and Game Theory email: ask Elisa Bienenstock
for copy of her article here
- empirical base of economy: matching, allocation, scarcity
- empirical base of society: Mobility, Education, Cultural Capital
- Possession, Ownership, Inheritance, Exchange
- Corporations, Domestic Spheres, Social Networks
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