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=== Dan W === '''Definition:''' A non-random set of meaningful relationships distributed among individuals (or organizations, or any other purposive entities) that together do not reduce to the aggregate properties of those connected individuals (Inspired by: Scott (1991) -- the one and only textbook on social networks anyone ever needs!). ''Important elements of my definition:'' - “non-random” - social relationships emerge between entities in a social environment for some articulable, and often observable, reason. - “meaningful” - a set of relationships that contributes interpretive richness to the entities connected by those relationships beyond their individual characteristics. - “purposive” - entities connected by network relationships have their own desires which are sometimes liberated and sometimes shackled depending on the pattern, strength, and nature of the networks in which they are embedded. ''Example:'' - What does a real network look like with real consequences? Padgett and McLean (2006) show that a centuries-long intermarriage network between families representing different guilds after the Ciompi revolt around the time of Renaissance Florence redefined the economic and social actions of those families, giving birth to the partnership system of economic organization
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