[Air-l] Community.....Network?

[Sherida Ryan]

I would highly recommend Barry Wellman's work which can be accessed through 
his website

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/index.html

You might find "The Persistence and Transformation of Community: From 
Neighbourhood Groups to Social Networks" Report to the Law Commission of 
Canada, 2001...to be particularly useful in answering your question.

Sherida Ryan
Ph.D. Student,
Adult Education,
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto


At 06:05 PM 20/03/2005 -0800, you wrote:
>Since we are in language game mode...
>
>The "community" and "network" constructs seem somewhat undifferentiated.
>Does anyone know of a really great paper that provides a theoretically
>intricate discussion of how one might use these terms in talking about
>clusters of people, objects and institutions -- in a purposively
>differentiated fashion?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mary
>---------------
>Mary Bryson, Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator, ECPS, Faculty of
>Education, University of British Columbia
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