Social Network Analysis On Components And Structures Of Relations Of Community Neighbors

The analyses on the components between villagers in a natural village have been conducted by social network methods, and structures of major relations are analyzed in this thesis. It is described in four parts, eight chapters. The first part gives a summary to present researches on social relations of Chinese rural community. The second makes introduction to methodology. The third from third to seventh chapter is main body. It focuses on social characteristics, livelihood characteristics, major ties between villagers, and proportion of each one, especially on major tie, i.e. everyday communication. The results indicate: everyday communication is the tie that most people involve in; the sizes of social ties among villagers are near normal distribution; the core-periphery structures of strong ties network is not significant, and there are many isolates in them; significance exists for the core-periphery distribution of weak ties network, and a few isolates exist in them; Cut-points play an important role in the strong network, but weak role in weak network; the strong network is made from many sub-networks which are overlapped among another by clique analysis; and through considering individual attributes, gender and age, nodes in each sub-network almost are same one.