southern_women: Southern Women

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

Southern Women

Description

This data was collected in 1936 from ethnographic studies performed by A. Davis, B.B. Gardner and R. Gardner, together with Elizabeth Stubbs Davis and J.G.St. Clair Drake. From the so called "First Harvard School of Networks" (Freeman, 2004). It consists of two incident matrices. The first matrix is an informal group of 18 women attending 14 events. The second matrix is a different group of 6 women attending 9 events. The dates and social events were reported in Old City Herald and the names were reported utilizing interviews, the record of participant-observers and guest lists. The two groups are divided according to race categories, and the cliques are differentiated between core, primary and secondary members within one of the groups.

Usage

data(southern_women)

Format

A list of three incident matrices

group1

A 18 X 14 matrix of Group 1, original data

group1b

A 18 X 14 matrix of Group 1, second version

membership_group1

A 18 X 14 matrix of the cliques of Group 1

group2

A 6 X 9 matrix of Group 2

Details

In the second version of the group 1 (i.e., group1b from membership_group1) four links are added (Dorothy, 6/10; Dorothy, 4/7; Helen, 11/21; Helen, 8/3).

Source

Davis, Allison; Gardner, Burleigh B. and Mary. R. Gardner (1941). Deep South: A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

References

Freeman, Linton C. (2004). The Development of Social Network Analysis. A Study in the Sociology of Science. Empirical Press, Vancouver, BC Canada

Freeman, Linton C. (2003). Finding Social Groups: A Meta-Analysis of the Southern Women Data. In: Ronald Breiger, Kathleen Carley, and Philippa Pattison (Eds). Dynamic Social Network Modeling and Analysis: Workshop Summary and Papers. The National Academy of Science.

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