Citation

Foster BL. Soc. Netw. 1978; 1(3): 241-255.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1978, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0378-8733(78)90022-9

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Anthropological social network studies are primarily of interest for an original formulation of the classic sociological problem of reconciling structural and action aspects of social organization. In general, however, these studies have produced disappointing substantive results owing to serious methodological and theoretical difficulties. Within the anthropological tradition are two types of research, viz., structural kinship studies and cognitive anthropological decision models, which have produced sound substantive results and which, if generalized and properly combined, could provide the methodological and theoretical tools which eluded the network scholars.