In low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), naturally occurring social networks may be
particularly vital to health outcomes as extended webs of social ties often are the principal …

Surveys and questionnaires are widely used to assemble data on connections among
persons or other social actors. Such methods have a long heritage: researchers used them …

Social Network Analysis and Education: Theory, Methods & Applications provides an
introduction to the theories, methods, and applications that constitute the social network …

Scholars have long argued that delinquency is a group phenomenon. Even so, minimal
research exists on the nature, structure, and process of co‐offending. This investigation …

Objectives. This paper tests whether differences by gender and by educational attainment in
contact with friends and family and in support expected from friends and family narrow or …

Abstract The Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH) is one of very few
long-standing, publicly available longitudinal cohort studies in a sub-Saharan African (SSA) …

This paper investigates Granovetter's “strength of weak ties” hypothesis in an informal
African urban economy. It outlines an approach articulated around the reticular …

High rates of egocentric network turnover are frequently observed but not well explained.
About 1000 respondents to the UCNets survey named an average of 10 names in each of …

Using longitudinal data from UCNets, we examined newly-listed alters and distinguished
between truly new ties who were recently met (typically coworkers and acquaintances) and …

Extensive research documents that social network characteristics affect health, but
knowledge of peer networks of youth in Malawi and sub-Saharan Africa is limited. We …