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  • 8 - Cohesion and Groups

  • from Part II - Seeing Structure
  • Craig M. Rawlings, Duke University, North Carolina, Jeffrey A. Smith, Nova Scotia Health Authority, James Moody, Duke University, North Carolina, Daniel A. McFarland, Stanford University, California
  • Book:
    Network Analysis
    Published online:
    21 September 2023
    Print publication:
    05 October 2023, pp 161-189

  • Summary

    When does a collection of individuals become a group or a community? What holds groups, communities, and societies together, even as individuals come and go? These questions concern social cohesion, the bonds through which otherwise disconnected individuals become part of something larger and more lasting than themselves. Social cohesion is perhaps the most central issue in the founding of sociology as a discipline, and its relevance persists today. Social network analysis has much to offer in making the study of social cohesion more formal and precise. Whereas in the previous chapter, we examined structures from the standpoint of their constituent elements of dyads and triads, here we step back to try to see more of the bigger structural picture through the overall pattern of ties in a network.