Social Networks of Meaning and Communication by Fuhse, Jan

Social Networks of Meaning and Communication (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780190275433)

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Social Networks of Meaning and Communication by Fuhse, Jan

Social Networks of Meaning and Communication

$80.00
Social Networks of Meaning and Communication by Fuhse, Jan

Social Networks of Meaning and Communication

$80.00
Format: Hardcover
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In Social Networks of Meaning and Communication, Jan A. Fuhse offers a coherent theory of social structures as networks of relations interwoven with meaning. Drawing upon and extending the relational sociology of Harrison White and Charles Tilly, Fuhse seeks to establish a theory of social networks. Using a broad range of classic and contemporary social theory, he reconceptualizes social networks as constituted in patterns of expectations that form, reproduce, and change over the course of communicative events. These events, he argues, are the basic building blocks of the social world. They lead to expectations about the behavior of actors and their interaction with others - the meaning structure making for observable regularities of communication in social networks.

Social Networks of Meaning and Communication lays out a relational and constructivist perspective of social networks, highlighting a number of implications for social relationships, groups, and collective actors, as well as ethnic categories and cultural differences, roles and institutions, gender and family relations, and methods of social network analysis. Its framework bridges the gap in social network research between technically sophisticated analyses and complex, elusive theorizing.

Author: Jan Fuhse
ISBN-10: 019027543X
ISBN-13: 9780190275433
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 11/05/2021
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 9.76h x 6.37w x 0.99d
By Jan Fuhse
By Jan Fuhse
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Jan A. Fuhse, Senior Lecturer (Privatdozent), Humboldt University of Berlin

Jan A. Fuhse is interim professor in sociology at Technical University Chemnitz, Germany, and a senior lecturer (Privatdozent) at Humboldt University. After his PhD in sociology from Universit舩 Stuttgart (Germany) in 2007, he completed a post-doc (funded by the Alexander von Humboldt foundation) at Columbia University 2007-2008. There he worked with Harrison White and Charles Tilly on the theory of social networks. From 2009 to 2013 he was an assistant professor of political sociology at the University of Bielefeld, completing his Habilitation in 2011. From 2013 to 2018, Fuhse worked as a Heisenberg Fellow (funded by the German Research Association) at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. From 2019 to 2021, he filled interim professorships in sociology and communication studies at the Universities of Passau and Bremen.

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