The rise of network thinking in anthropology

Wolfe, Alvin W.

doi:10.1016/0378-8733(78)90012-6

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“…En este sentido, es importante señalar los esfuerzos de los que, influenciados por la antropología británica y por autores como Wolfe (1978), insisten en la posibilidad de apartarse de los abordajes estructuralistas e individualistas para detenerse directamente en el análisis de las relaciones sociales concretas. Pero tales esfuerzos venidos de la antropología son limitados debido, sobre todo, a las resistencias tradicionales de sociólogos formados en la escuela positivista a integrar los elementos simbólicos e intersubjetivos de la práctica social.…”

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Redes Sociales: Un Nuevo Paradigma en El Horizonte Sociológico

Martins

2009

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The main objective of this essay is that the emergence of the new social movement paradigm is verified by the growing force of the idea of social network inside social sciences. However, I understand that the wider recognition of this new paradigm is blocked for the presence of colonization strategies and naturalization of social networks and through utilitarianism thesis that wants to reduce all collective and individual action to selfish motivations, such as rational choice theories.Keywords: social networks, rational choice, utilitarianism, collective action. ResumenLa tesis central del presente texto es que la emergencia del nuevo paradigma de los movimientos sociales es verificada por la fuerza creciente de la idea de red social al interior de las ciencias sociales. Sin embargo, entendemos que el reconocimiento más amplio de este nuevo paradigma es impedido por la presencia de estrategias de colonización y de naturalización de las teorías de las redes y por medio de tesis utilitaristas que buscan reducir toda la acción colectiva e individual a motivaciones egoístas e interesadas, como lo hacen las teorías de elección racional.Palabras clave: redes sociales, elección racional, utilitarismo, acción colectiva. IntroducciónLos estudios recientes (1) sobre movimientos sociales señalan el debilitamiento de antiguas modalidades de constitución de los actores colectivos, cuyos conflictos tenían como referencias centrales ciertas categorías identitarias. Una de estas categorías era la de clase, vista como aquella que luchaba en escenas antagónicas por el control de los medios de producción social, teniendo como mecanismos de control y mediación a los Estados, que delimitaban las fronteras nacionales de las movilizaciones colectivas. Sin embargo, los cambios recientes producidos por los procesos de desterritorialización y reterritorialización en las sociedades complejas (Mato 2007) imponen nuevos tipos de actores, de conflictos y de mediaciones. Los conflictos sobrepasan las esferas sociales, políticas y económicas e involucran esferas culturales y simbólicas dándole profundidad a las luchas por reconocimiento. Para H. Bhabha, lo teóricamente innovador y políticamente crucial es la necesidad de pasar de las narrativas originales y singulares (como las de clase o género) a

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2009

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“…Given the determination of social relations by combinations of subjectively intended individual activities, social relations are in continuous flux , change, and readjustment. There can, hence, not be a fixed social order (Boissevain, 1973;Wolfe, 1978). Within this basis of analyzing social relations, the fulfillment of individual interests depends in part on potential benefits that may be received from interaction with others, but have to be reciprocated in order to (I) motivate others to provide these benefits and , specifically (2) motivate others to sacrifice some of the resources or benefits available to them.…”

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“…Initially, network approaches have been emerging in anthropology (see the reprints of Firth, 1<}64, as weD ·as Wolfe , 1978) . A pioneering formulation of network analysis can be found in Bott (1957).…”

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Structures of Domination and Peasant Movements in Latin America.

Ruhl¹,

Singelmann²

1982

The Hispanic American Historical Review

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“…As Wolfe (1978) observes, the empirical interest in the study of networks was driven largely by anthropologists working in African cities. Traditional kinship models were ill-equipped for the complexity of familial, professional, and social connections that characterize urban life.…”

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“…New conceptual departures from foundational individual/society dualisms emerged through post-structuralism. At the same time, advances in computing and mathematics, including graph theory, topology and matrix algebra, enabled social scientists to define, delimit, and, importantly, to compare the attributes of complex networks (Breiger, 2004;Galaskiewicz & Wasserman, 1993;Wolfe, 1978). By the 1990s, formal network analysis had come of age as a subgenre of sociological research, heralding the arrival of a "second generation" of network studies (Galaskiewicz & Wasserman, 1993;Knox et al, 2006).…”

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Mapping civil society with social network analysis: Methodological possibilities and limitations

Marshall

Staeheli

2015

Geoforum

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(2015) 'Mapping civil society with social network analysis : methodological possibilities and limitations. ', Geoforum.,[61][62][63][64][65][66] Further information on publisher's website:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum. 2015.02.015 Publisher's copyright statement: NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Geoforum. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A denitive version was subsequently published in Geoforum, 61, May 2015, 10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.02.015. Additional information:Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. This paper explores the possibility of using social network analysis and visualization as a tool for qualitative research in human geography. The approach uses formal network analysis in concert with ethnographic research methods. Specifically, we take a performative approach to network analysis that sees network visualization as a process that produces space for research. Using networks of civil society organisations as our example, this paper highlights the debates over what social network analysis allows and omits, focusing in particular on issues related to flows, power, boundary demarcation and abstraction. From a methodological perspective, much can be lost when the conceptual and theoretical arguments about networks are applied to the material and embodied practices that constitute network relations. Nevertheless, the formal analysis of such networks can provide a representation of relationships at a moment in time that can help to both express those relationships and to open new questions that can be explored using other methods. Just as abstraction is used in an iterative process to move between empirical evidence and conceptual and theoretical arguments, the representation of networks can be part of a methodological approach that moves between the representation of relationships and the ways that various agents express, experience, and remake those relationships. Using the example of research on NGOs and civil society organisations promoting citizenship for young people in divided societies, we explore the utility-and limitations-of working in the liminal space of formal network analysis and more ethnographic approaches.

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The rise of network thinking in anthropology

Cited by 57 publications

References 23 publications

Redes Sociales: Un Nuevo Paradigma en El Horizonte Sociológico

Redes Sociales: Un Nuevo Paradigma en El Horizonte Sociológico

Structures of Domination and Peasant Movements in Latin America.

Mapping civil society with social network analysis: Methodological possibilities and limitations

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