CLASS-BASED SOCIAL NETWORKS IN REGIONAL ECONOMIC SYSTEMS
Anthropological Perspectives on Economic Development and Integration
ISBN: 978-0-76231-071-5, eISBN: 978-1-84950-249-8
Publication date: 8 November 2003
Abstract
Does a village’s location in a regional economic system predict the extent to which close interpersonal relationships are based on socioeconomic similarity? A comparison of sample social networks of four frontier villages in northwest Ecuador showed that village centrality influences the dominant types of social relationships and, thus, the differential tendencies for socioeconomic differentiation. Compared to residents in peripheral villages, those in central ones were more likely to name individuals of their own class and to note mutual relations in their social networks.
Citation
Jones, E.C. (2003), "CLASS-BASED SOCIAL NETWORKS IN REGIONAL ECONOMIC SYSTEMS", Dannhaeuser, N. and Werner, C. (Ed.) Anthropological Perspectives on Economic Development and Integration (Research in Economic Anthropology, Vol. 22), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 3-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0190-1281(03)22001-1
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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