Citation

Hammer M. Soc. Netw. 1979; 2(2): 165-180.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1979, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0378-8733(79)90005-4

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

A developed theory of social networks would potentially provide predictive and explanatory models for social processes at the most general level. The paper contributes to such a theory by elaborating one basic proposition: that social connections attract each other as a regular function of network parameters such as [`]structural strength' (number of common links) and [`]distance' (length of minimal path of linkage). The proposition is tested on longitudinal data from three locality-based networks.