Family, kin, and the quest for community: A study of three social networks in early-modern Italy
The article probes seventeenth-century occupational and marriage data from three parishes in the Savoyard domains for isomorphisms with processes of collective mobilization. Analyzed as directed graphs, networks of marriage alliance display widely differing patterns in standard graph measurements and Regular Equivalence blockmodelling across the three parishes. Channeling flows of material and symbolic exchange conducive to different forms of political action, these network variations are in turn the outcome of unbalanced access by local kin groupings to vital resources.
National teams of students who participated in 2012 Erasmus Intensive Program ’Library, Information and Cultural Management – Academic Summer School’ were asked to do researches on public libraries on Facebook in their countries. In the paper some of the results are presented and discussed.