Title: Bonds of pluralism: the form and substance of urban social networks
Authors: Laumann, Edward O.
Publisher: J. Wiley
Year: 1973
Subjects: Social structure Michigan Detroit Metropolitan Area.; Social networks Michigan Detroit Metropolitan Area.; Sociology, Urban.; Social Conditions.; Urban Population; Urbanization; Urban Population Michigan.; Urbanization Michigan.; Michigan; Detroit Metropolitan Area (Mich.) Social conditions.; Michigan
Contents: 1. The form and substance of urban social structure: an overview -- Part I: Form: networks -- 2. Friends of urban men: accuracy of description, mutual choice, and attitude agreement -- 3. The social structure of ascriptive membership groups -- 4. The social structure of occupations: the role of achievement-based criteria in friendship choice -- 5. The homogeneity of friendship networks -- 6. Interlocking and radial friendship nets: a formal feature with important consequences -- Part II: Substance: attitudes and values -- 7. Voluntary association membership and the theory of mass society / Stephen J. Cutler -- 8. A reexamination of the status inconsistency hypothesis / Edward O. Laumann and David R. Segal -- 9. The persistence of ethnoreligious differences in the worldly success of third- and later-generation Americans -- 10. Urban social structure: some conclusions and prospects -- Social distance as a metric: a systematic introduction to smallest space analysis / David D. McFarland and Daniel J. Brown -- Sampling design for the 1965-1966 Detroit area study / Howard Schuman.