Citation

Hammer M. Soc. Netw. 1980; 2(4): 305-325.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1980, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0378-8733(80)90001-5

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Analysis of an elementary level of social structure may be approached through a systematic description of who has access to whom. "Access" itself is a potential and cannot be directly measured, but differential actual acquaintanceship among sets of individuals can be presumed to reflect degrees of access. The paper presents a preliminary quantitative analysis of the systematic relationships shown by the patterns of acquaintanceship in several small social networks in the metropolitan New York area.