Recognizing Modes of Acculturation in Personal Networks of Migrants
Brandes, Ulrik (University of Konstanz. Department of Computer and Information Science)
Lerner, Jürgen (University of Konstanz. Department of Computer and Information Science)
Lubbers, Miranda J.. (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Antropologia Social i Cultural)
McCarty, Christopher (University of Florida. Bureau of Economic and Business Research)
Molina, José Luis (Molina González) (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Antropologia Social i Cultural)
Nagel, Uwe (University of Konstanz. Department of Computer and Information Science)

Date:	2010
Abstract:	An individual's personal network encodes social contacts as well as relations among them. Personal networks are therefore considered to be characteristic and meaningful variables of individuals-supplementing more traditional characteristics such as age, gender, race, or job position. We analyze an ensemble of several hundred personal networks of migrants using a recently introduced classification method. As a result, individuals are partitioned into groups defined by similarity of their personal networks, and abstract summaries of classes are obtained. From the analysis we can conclude that Berry's modes of acculturation feature prominently in the empirical data.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Personal networks ; Network ensemble ; Role structure ; Acculturation
Published in:	Procedia: social and behavioral sciences, Vol. 4 (2010) , p. 4-13, ISSN 1877-0428

Adreça original: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042810018525
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.07.478

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