The social networks of poor and nonpoor households in the post-Soviet Kyrgyz Republic have polarized and separated, in a process that parallels the sharp socioeconomic stratification that has taken place since national independence in 1991. Not only have the networks separated, each has changed in character. The nonpoor, especially those in urban communities, are moving away from relationships based on ascriptive relationships to more "modern," interest-based networks,
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