Social Networks of Meaning and Communication
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 5 January 2022
- ISBN 9780190275433
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages344 pages
- Size 162x248x25 mm
- Weight 626 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 b/w figures; 4 tables 1206
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Short description:
In Social Network of Meaning and Communication, Jan Fuhse offers a theoretical account of social networks to explore both what they are and how they matter in the social world. Drawing upon and extending the cutting-edge work of Harrison White and Charles Tilly, Fuhse takes an important step forward in establishing a new theory of social networks, reconceptualizing networks as constituted in patterns of meaning with a dynamic set of expectations that form, reproduce, and change over the course of communicative events.
MoreLong description:
In Social Networks of Meaning and Communication, Jan A. Fuhse offers a coherent theory of social structures as networks of relations interwoven with meaning. Drawing upon and extending the relational sociology of Harrison White and Charles Tilly, Fuhse seeks to establish a theory of social networks. Using a broad range of classic and contemporary social theory, he reconceptualizes social networks as constituted in patterns of expectations that form, reproduce, and change over the course of communicative events. These events, he argues, are the basic building blocks of the social world. They lead to expectations about the behavior of actors and their interaction with others ? the meaning structure making for observable regularities of communication in social networks.
Social Networks of Meaning and Communication lays out a relational and constructivist perspective of social networks, highlighting a number of implications for social relationships, groups, and collective actors, as well as ethnic categories and cultural differences, roles and institutions, gender and family relations, and methods of social network analysis. Its framework bridges the gap in social network research between technically sophisticated analyses and complex, elusive theorizing.
Jan Fuhse, the leading network theorist in Germany, lays out a theory of social networks that does justice to its cultural and communicative basis. With clarity and a remarkable breadth of view, he unites different forms of networks under a general theory. This masterful book brings insights from systems theory, culture, and philosophical anthropology to the study of social networks. This long-awaited statement will be the starting point for the next generation of network researchers.
Table of Contents:
Preface
1. Networks with Theory
2. Networks, Relationships, and Meaning
3. Groups and Social Boundaries
4. Ethnic Categories and Cultural Differences
5. Roles and Institutions
6. Love and Gender
7. Events in Networks
8. Networks from Communication
9. Summary and Discussion
References
Index
