Frontmatter -- FOREWORD / Grootenhuis, G. W. -- Preface / Boissevain, Jeremy -- Table of contents -- Part 1. Theory and methodology -- 1 Social network: Its use as a conceptual framework in family analysis -- 2 Networks, norms and institutions / Mitchell, J. Clyde -- 3 Network analysis and social theory Some remarks / Banck, Geert A. -- 4 Some applications of the notion of density to network analysis / Niemeijer, Rudo -- Part 2. Networks compared -- 5 Network density among urban families / Cubitt, Tessa -- 6 Social network and conjugal role in urban Zambia: Towards a reformulation of the Bott hypothesis / Kapferer, Bruce -- 7 Two types of partial networks in Burundi / Trouwborst, A. -- 8 An exploration of two first-order zones / Boissevain, Jeremy -- Part 3. Network and coalitions -- 9 Coalitions in Sicilian peasant society / Blok, Anton -- 10 Politics on the village level / Jongmans, D. G. -- 11 Coalitions and network analysis / Velzen, H. U. E. Thoden Van -- Bibliography -- Biographical data of authors -- Subject indexweiterlesen