Structural analysis: From method and metaphor to theory and substance.

The Strength of Weak Ties

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The Social System

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The Strength of Weak Ties: A Network Theory Revisited

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Power-Dependence Relations

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Family resemblances: Studies in the internal structure of categories

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The division of labor in society

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The small-world problem

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Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms

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Social Support and Health.

1986 • 3,994 citations

Why men rebel

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SPSS: statistical package for the social sciences

1975 • 3,374 citations

Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America

1973 • 2,372 citations

To Dwell among Friends: Personal Networks in Town and City.

1984 • 2,028 citations

Social Structure from Multiple Networks. I. Blockmodels of Roles and Positions

1976 • 2,012 citations

An Experimental Study of the Small World Problem

1969 • 1,834 citations

Blaming the Victim

1971 • 1,828 citations

Obedience to Authority

1974 • 1,728 citations

Class and Committees in a Norwegian Island Parish

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Structural equivalence of individuals in social networks

1971 • 1,626 citations

Toward a Theory of Revolution

1962 • 1,613 citations

The Political Economy of Federalism

1985 • 1,551 citations

The Adolescent Society

1962 • 1,480 citations

Toward a Theory of Social Support: Closing Conceptual Gaps

1984 • 1,348 citations

Communication Networks: Toward a New Paradigm for Research.

1982 • 1,338 citations

Introduction to Mathematical Sociology.

1965 • 1,267 citations

States and Social Revolutions

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Who Shall Survive

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Family and Social Network

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Custom and Politics in Urban Africa

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Toward a Structural Theory of Action

1982 • 830 citations

Models of Network Structure

1980 • 817 citations

Social Structure from Multiple Networks. II. Role Structures

1976 • 792 citations

Clustering and Structural Balance in Graphs

1967 • 784 citations

Structural Position in the World System and Economic Growth, 1955-1970: A Multiple-Network Analysis of Transnational Interactions

1979 • 755 citations

Contacts and influence

1978 • 644 citations

Networks, Neighborhoods, and Communities

1979 • 616 citations

Institutional Completeness of Ethnic Communities and the Personal Relations of Immigrants

1968 • 615 citations

Women, Work and Family

1978 • 604 citations

The World We Have Lost

1965 • 598 citations

The Power Structure of American Business

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Networks and Marginality: Life in a Mexican Shantytown

1977 • 567 citations

Demography of the Dobe !Kung

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The Theory of Social Structure

2013 • 529 citations

Tally's corner

1967 • 473 citations

Additive clustering: Representation of similarities as combinations of discrete overlapping properties.

1979 • 469 citations

Aspects of Group Relations in a Complex Society: Mexico¹

1956 • 442 citations

The Structure of Adult Friendship Choices

1977 • 437 citations

Family Structure in Nineteenth Century Lancashire

1973 • 422 citations

Applied Network Analysis

1978 • 388 citations

The American Corporate Network, 1904-1974.

1984 • 371 citations

Theories and Theory Groups in Contemporary American Sociology.

1975 • 364 citations

Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution

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A Combinatiorial Optimization Model for Transmission of Job Information Through Contact Networks

1975 • 357 citations

Some Problems of Inference from Chain Data

1979 • 319 citations

Work and family.

1987 • 315 citations

The Structure of Positive Interpersonal Relations in Small Groups.

1967 • 306 citations

Models of hierarchy formation in animal societies

1974 • 284 citations

Theories of Social Conflict

1978 • 277 citations

Statistical Analysis of Multiple Sociometric Relations

1985 • 273 citations

Careers and Organizational Labor Markets: Demographic Models of Organizational Behavior

1983 • 258 citations

ON SOCIAL STRUCTURE

1977 • 254 citations

Rational Choice and Social Exchange

1977 • 248 citations

Constructing blockmodels: How and why

1978 • 223 citations

The Network and Urban Social Organization

1961 • 221 citations

‘Core’ and ‘extended’ social networks in relation to health and illness

1983 • 219 citations

Hypernetwork sampling: Duality and differentiation among voluntary organizations

1982 • 214 citations

As Sociology Meets History.

1983 • 214 citations

The Sphere of Influence

1972 • 201 citations

Friendship Networks in Developing Relationships: Converging and Diverging Social Environments

1982 • 200 citations

The Group Structure of Cocitation Clusters: A Comparative Study

1977 • 197 citations

Bounded Rationality in Budgetary Research

1980 • 190 citations

The genetics of altruism

1980 • 190 citations

The Network City*

1973 • 189 citations

Networks and Places

1977 • 179 citations

The Significance of Quasi-Groups in the Study of Complex Societies

2013 • 176 citations

SOCIAL NETWORKS: A DEVELOPING PARADIGM

1977 • 174 citations

The People of Hamilton, Canada West

1975 • 174 citations

Elite Social Circles

1978 • 167 citations

The Social Class Structure of Occupational Mobility

1981 • 159 citations

Sampling and estimation in large social networks

1978 • 132 citations

The Search for an Abortionist.

1970 • 120 citations

On the social structure of an ocean-going research vessel and other important things

1973 • 118 citations

Structural Blockage: A Cross-National Study of Economic Dependency, State Efficacy, and Underdevelopment

1981 • 114 citations

Cities of peasants

1979 • 110 citations

Network Analysis: A Reappraisal

1979 • 110 citations

The Analysis of Oppositional Structures in Political Elites: Identifying Collective Actors

1979 • 107 citations

Infrastructures, Societies, and History [and Comments]

1978 • 100 citations

Working Daughters of Hong Kong: Filial Piety or Power in the Family?

1983 • 99 citations

Strategy and Transaction in an African Factory

1974 • 97 citations

Corporations, Classes, and Capitalism

1982 • 96 citations

A Survey of Statistical Methods for Graph Analysis

1981 • 95 citations

Social Networks and the Coping Process: Creating Personal Communities

1981 • 90 citations

What are Norms? A Study of Beliefs and Action in a Maya Community.

1978 • 80 citations

Community Size, Network Structure, and the Flow of Information

1979 • 78 citations

Search Parameters for the Small World Problem

1970 • 77 citations

A probabilistic approach to networks

1979 • 77 citations

The rise of network thinking in anthropology

1978 • 77 citations

The Arithmetic of Social Relations: The Interplay of Category and Network

1982 • 76 citations

Toward an operational theory of community elite structures

1979 • 67 citations

The First Circle

1970 • 67 citations

Industrial Segmentation and Men's Career Mobility

1982 • 65 citations

Three Styles in the Study of Kinship.

1973 • 64 citations

Bridging ties at the neighborhood level

1982 • 61 citations

Structures induced by collections of subsets: a hypergraph approach

1981 • 54 citations

World Modernization: The Limits of Convergence.

1981 • 53 citations

Mathematical Sociology: An Introduction to Fundamentals.

1975 • 50 citations

Dependency Theory: A Critique

1977 • 45 citations

Relational networks: An extension of sociometric concepts

1982 • 45 citations

Interlocking directorates in canada: evidence from replacement patterns

1982 • 45 citations

SOCIAL CLUSTERS AND OPINION CLUSTERS

1979 • 44 citations

Network sampling in practice: Some second steps

1981 • 41 citations

"Community Power and the Retreat from Politics; Full Circle after Twenty Years?"

1976 • 34 citations

The causes of labour migration.

1968 • 34 citations

A goodness-of-fit index for blockmodels

1979 • 33 citations

Access to Interorganizational Networks as a Professional Resource

1980 • 32 citations

The determination of enterprise groupings through combined ownership and directorship ties

1978 • 29 citations

Latent classes and group membership

1981 • 27 citations

Fitting blockmodels to data

1982 • 27 citations

BALANCE AND CLUSTERABILITY: AN OVERVIEW

1979 • 27 citations

Development of structure in a society with a dominance relation when new members are added successively

1965 • 25 citations

The Structure of an Elite: the Advisory Structure of the U.S. Public Health Service

1972 • 22 citations

Social Mobility in a Mid-Nineteenth Century French City

1982 • 21 citations

The Allocation of Esteem and Disesteem: A Test of Goode's Theory

1984 • 21 citations

A STUDY OF INTERLOCKING DIRECTORATES: VITAL CONCEPTS OF ORGANIZATION

1979 • 20 citations

African Urbanism, Mobility and the Social Network

1965 • 19 citations

Polyhedral dynamics and conflict mobilization in social networks

1981 • 18 citations

Intransitivity in the structure of small closed groups

1974 • 17 citations

Analyzing proximity matrices: The assessment of internal variation in combinatorial structure

1980 • 17 citations

A bibliography of social networks

1976 • 15 citations

A PRIMER ON BLOCKMODELING PROCEDURE

1979 • 15 citations

TRANSITIVITY IN STRUCTURAL MODELS OF SMALL GROUPS

1977 • 14 citations

The utility of natural help relationships

1979 • 12 citations

An algebraic analysis for multiple, social networks

1980 • 10 citations

Norms and institutions

1988 • 10 citations

Claims, Claiming, and Claims Structures

1983 • 4 citations

Demographic history in the United States: the first fifteen years

1981 • 3 citations