Networks And Ethnography

Question 1

The community question

Answer 1

Community lost
Community saved
Community liberated

Question 2

Community as social capital: networks

Answer 2

Who do you know

Question 3

Community as social capital: norms

Answer 3

Do you share norms and values? Do you agree on what’s right and what’s wrong

Question 4

Community as social capital: social trust

Answer 4

So you trust the people in your network

Question 5

What does social capital facilitate

Answer 5

Coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit

Question 6

Putnam: what activities have a decline in social capital

Answer 6

Bowling
People vote less often
Belong to fewer social clubs, attend fewer public meetings

Question 7

Criticism of Putnam

Answer 7

Could the decline be that social capital isn’t In total decline it’s just shifting. Move out socialization into other things such as artistic clubs and groups

1. generational change
2. television

Question 8

Community saved

Answer 8

The idea that communities can actually exist in big cities

Question 9

Subcultures theory -Fischer

Answer 9

Accepts simmers argument that the larger the group the more heterogenous

Argues that once populations hit a critical mass their members can internally divide into distinct subcultures

Subculture allow large urban population to form strong community bonds around common interests

This interpretation contradicts the Chicago school which believed that subculture were a sign of social breakdown

Question 10

Ethnography

Answer 10

Going and living among different societies that are different then them

See the world from their perspective

Question 11

Community studies

Answer 11

Strong social ties and community structures exist even in neighbourhoods where we might e pact there to be weak communities

Urban villages -village like existence even in urban areas

Abandon the loyalty to the concentric model

Question 12

Herbert gans: the levittowners

Answer 12

Goes into suburbs
Proves that by integrating in to a town and discovers that there are strong social connections even though these people are migrating from all over the place

Question 13

Duneier:sidewalk

Answer 13

Black homeless men selling books

How they coexisted and came together

Question 14

Klinenberg dying alone

Answer 14

Social production of isolation

Question 15

Community liberated

Answer 15

Barry wellman

Advocates that this was the right answer to the community question

Argues for separating neighbourhood and community

Found evidence of the community lost method

People maintain strong communities just not with people they live with

Liberated themselves outside the neighbourhood with the existence of phones and cars

Question 16

South shore vs hegewisch

Answer 16

South shore perfect for factories

Question 17

Bonding ties

Answer 17

Strong intimate connections among a tightly knit group

Question 18

Bridging ties

Answer 18

Weaker ties where information can be exchanged between otherwise unconnected networks

Question 19

Strong ties

Answer 19

Exist between actors who share many acquaintances

Question 20

Weak ties

Answer 20

Exist between actors who share few if any common acquaintances

Question 21

Network size

Answer 21

Number of actors (nodes) in a network

Question 22

The multiplexity of a tie

Answer 22

of resources, types of support and modes of communication between actors

Question 23

Density/cohesion

Answer 23

Number of ties within a network compared to the total number of possible ties

Question 24

Range/diversity

Answer 24

Heterogeneity of a network

Question 25

Centrality

Answer 25

How important are you in your network

Question 26

The strength

Answer 26

The closeness or intimacy of a tie between actors