Analyzing the Instrumental Use of Relations in the Context of Social Structure
Analyzing the Instrumental Use of Relations in the Context of Social Structure
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DOI：
10.1177/004912417800700203
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发表时间：
1978-11
影响因子：
6.3
通讯作者：
N. Lin;P. Dayton;Peter Greenwald
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作者：
N. Lin;P. Dayton;Peter Greenwald
采用小世界技术的一种变体，在更大的社会结构背景下追踪社会关系，根据参与者在搜索过程中的声望和关系特征类型来检查社会关系的工具使用。结果表明，成功的链条在最后一个环节向目标威望水平“倾斜”之前，随着链条的发展，往往会有较高职业威望水平的参与者参与。此外，成功的连锁往往利用弱而不频繁的社会关系，而不是强而频繁的社会关系。
Employing a variation of the Small World technique for tracing social relations in the context of a larger social structure, the instrumental uses of social relations are examined in terms of the prestige and types of relations characteristic of participants m the search process. The results show that successful chains tend to involve participants of higher occupational prestige as the chains progress before "dipping" down toward the target prestige level at the last link. Also, the successful chains tend to utilize weak and infrequent social relations rather than strong and frequent social relations.