Studies described in Chapter 1
Listed below are key research studies cited in Chapter 1. Page references are in parentheses.
Homans’ law of inequality: friendship ties generally created and maintained by persons of the same rank (2).
Guerry, Quetelet and Morselli: stability, variation and increase in nineteenth century European suicide rates (4-6).
Durkheim: Suicide (1897) – classic sociological study linking suicide rates and strength of social ties (6-7).
Sampson: use of network analysis to study social conflict among monastery cliques (16-17).
Stark and Bader: construction of unobtrusive measures to measure interest in astrology and belief in UFOs (17-20).
