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Someone to Talk to: How Networks Matter in Practice

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Someone to Talk to: How Networks Matter in Practice - Small, Mario Luis
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Someone To Talk To r eveals the often counter-intuitive nature of social support, showing that Americans often take pains to avoid close friends and family--their "strong ties"--when deciding on whom to rely. In contrast, they often confide in "weak ties," as the need for understanding or empathy trumps their fear of misplaced trust. Amid a growing wave of big data and large-scale network analysis, Mario L. Small returns to the basic questions of who we connect with, how, and why, upending decades of conventional wisdom on ...

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Someone to Talk to: How Networks Matter in Practice 2019, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780190090432

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