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SOCIAL NETWORKS AND TERRITORY IN A COMMUTER VILLAGE, BOND HEAD, ONTARIO
Author(s) -
Walker Gerald
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
canadian geographer / le géographe canadien
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.35
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1541-0064
pISSN - 0008-3658
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-0064.1977.tb01005.x
Subject(s) - kinship , settlement (finance) , sociology , space (punctuation) , social network analysis , social network (sociolinguistics) , economic geography , head (geology) , geography , genealogy , political science , computer science , social science , social capital , history , anthropology , law , world wide web , social media , payment , operating system , geomorphology , geology
SOCIAL NETWORKS AND PLACE Below the level of formal organizations, but above that of individual behaviour, there exists a weblike mesh of relationships between households. We are all aware, intuitively, of social networks. They are the old‐boys networks, cliques, alliances, friendships, acquaintanceship chains, and kinship groups in which we all participate. Many, perhaps most, decisions taken by individuals are mediated through social networks. Networks are, as well, located in geographic space. In this paper I shall look at the concept of social networks and then use the concept to examine a small settlement in the Toronto hinterland.