205 South Hall Agency and Structure in Networks of Exchange Elisa Bienenstock Sociology Department Stanford University Work on social networks has focused on how network structures effect and limit individual action. The literature on weak and strong power as well as work on the game theoretic core, distinguish networks that are deterministic, from those that allow for varying distributional outcomes. In these less deterministic structures it may be that the strategies of subjects can alter the structure within which they are embedded. Subjects in these experiments are very limited in the actions they can perform.
Subjects can only exchange with others with whom they are initially connected.
From among those they may select with whom, and how much they are willing to exchange. In this talk I will discuss some ideas for experiments designed to test whether a subject's bargaining strategy can affect the ultimate exchange structure, thereby affecting the final resource distribution for the entire network.