Social structure and sociability: are unequal personal networks?

• Main Author: Pablo De Grande
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2015-03-01
• Series: REDES: Revista Hispana para el Análisis de Redes Sociales
• Subjects: redes personales; sociabilidad; estratificación social; nivel socioeconómico
• Online Access: https://revistes.uab.cat/redes/article/view/512

<p class="Maintext">This paper analyzes the results of a personal network national study conducted in Argentina in 2006. After a sample of 1500 adults, the characteristics of the personal relations are shown, with the goal of describing -in urban contexts of Argentina- the dependencies between sociability and social position. In this way, it looks forward to eliciting the linkages between economic and social inequalities and the formation and maintenance of interpersonal relations. Educational capital and economic capital, next to age and sex, are the dimensions that are used in the analysis to characterize differences in participation in family circles, neighborhood and institutional relations.</p>