howe_court: Howe Court

In anespinosa/classicnets: classicnets: Classic Data of Social Networks

Howe Court

Description

This data was collected by the research of Festinger, Stanley and Back (1950). They look into how human factors influenced in the interconnections made by people leaving in the same building. They studied two projects of housing inside the M.I.T. residential area (when those were starting to been constructed as part of the university). Those two project were the first one, isolated from other residential areas, which made them self-contained units to explore their objetive. The book problematize, between other things, the way in which is better to represented complex interconnections between people living in the same location. They works with two cases: Tolman Court and Howe Court. The matrix in here represent the interconnections among the people in Howe court.

Usage

data(howe_court)

Format

A 13 X 13 matrix.

howe

A 13 X 13 matrix of the interconnections 'given to' in columns and 'given by' in rows

Source

Festinger, Leon, Stanley, Schachter and Back, Kurt (1950). Social pressures in informal groups. A study of human factors in housing. California, United States: Stanford University Press.

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