Networks in the global village: life in contemporary communities
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The Network Community: An Introduction -- 1 The Elements of Personal Communities -- 2 The Network Basis of Social Support: A Network Is More Than the Sum of Its Ties -- 3 Neighbor Networks of Black and White Americans -- 4 Social Networks Among the Urban Poor: Inequality and Integration in a Latin American City -- 5 The Diversity of Personal Networks in France: Social Stratification and Relational Structures -- 6 Network Capital in Capitalist, Communist, and Postcommunist Countries -- 7 Getting a Job Through a Web of Guanxi in China -- 8 Personal Community Networks in Contemporary Japan -- 9 Using Social Networks to Exit Hong Kong -- 10 Net-Surfers Don't Ride Alone: Virtual Communities as Communities -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Index