R/tolman_court.R

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

#' Tolman Court
#'
#' 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 Tolman court.
#'
#' @format A matrix with the interconnections among the people in Tolman court.
#' \describe{
#'     \item{tolman}{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.
#'
#' @usage data(tolman_court)
#'
#' @docType data
#'
#'
"tolman_court"