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Revisiting the culture–social structure duality debate through the lens of personal networks Cover

Revisiting the culture–social structure duality debate through the lens of personal networks

Connections
Volume 46 (2025): Issue 1 (June 2025)
By: José Luis Molina,  Christopher McCarty,  Angel Sánchez and  Miroslav Pulgar  
Open Access
|Jun 2025

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Figure 1

Several kinship terminology systems (Creative Commons resource).
Several kinship terminology systems (Creative Commons resource).

Figure 2

Network of gossip. Color = same linguistic group. Dashed line = same church. Solid line = same school. Arrows = gossip direction.
Network of gossip. Color = same linguistic group. Dashed line = same church. Solid line = same school. Arrows = gossip direction.

Figure 3

The personal network of a Dominican male in Barcelona. Color gradation refers to the emotional closeness, and the different clusters numbered to different social settings (family ties, job, and softball).
The personal network of a Dominican male in Barcelona. Color gradation refers to the emotional closeness, and the different clusters numbered to different social settings (family ties, job, and softball).

Figure 4

Factors affecting empirical personal networks.
Factors affecting empirical personal networks.

Figure 5

Top: Personal Network in a centrality layout with the degree of emotional closeness perceived by ego. Bottom: the same personal network arranged in different levels corresponding to a ranking of statuses. In both cases, color graduation also represents closeness, with triangles and circles representing males and females, respectively (drawings produced with visone.info).
Top: Personal Network in a centrality layout with the degree of emotional closeness perceived by ego. Bottom: the same personal network arranged in different levels corresponding to a ranking of statuses. In both cases, color graduation also represents closeness, with triangles and circles representing males and females, respectively (drawings produced with visone.info).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/connections-2025-0001 | Journal eISSN: 2816-4245 | Journal ISSN: 0226-1766
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Language: English
Page range: 25 - 38
Submitted on: Dec 10, 2024
Accepted on: Apr 30, 2025
Published on: Jun 19, 2025
Published by: International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA)
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Culture–social structure,
Personal networks,
Manchester School,
Multilevel networks,
Cultural institutions,
Kinship
Related subjects:
Social sciences,
Social sciences, other

© 2025 José Luis Molina, Christopher McCarty, Angel Sánchez, Miroslav Pulgar, published by International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA)
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

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