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Measuring Social Integration: Linking Personal And Associational Ties In Ego Networks, Sela Harcey
Measuring Social Integration: Linking Personal And Associational Ties In Ego Networks, Sela Harcey
Department of Sociology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Objective: Social integration is a foundational feature of society that influences individual-level outcomes. However, as our social worlds increase in complexity, integration becomes difficult to precisely measure. Contributing to research on social integration, this dissertation: (1) develops more precise ways to measure social integration, (2) identifies who is socially integrated, and (3) explores which social ties have the most influence on social integration.
Study 1: The first study aims to measure social integration more precisely by establishing a network structure and set of measures that utilize personal and associational ties with ego network data. Defined as personal affiliation networks (PAN), …