Ties that Bind/Unwind: The Social, Economic, and Organizational Contexts of Sharing Networks

Katherine S. Newman

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2020, vol. 689, issue 1, 192-201

Abstract: This commentary provides a synthetic overview and analytic framework for understanding the papers in this volume of The ANNALS , which focuses on sharing networks in a comparative context. Economic crises endemic to capitalist societies generate the need for support networks, while welfare state configurations influence their importance as an additional survival tool. Social norms set the stage for the degrees of reciprocity and durable obligation that networks engender and the boundary conditions that enable or disable the most vulnerable members of the social hierarchy to tap the resources of more privileged contacts.

Keywords: social networks; economic crises; poverty; reciprocity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/0002716220923335

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