This study approaches online social networking from the opposite direction, focusing on unsociability, in an attempt to find out how friendships are negotiated and terminated online. The research data was obtained via an online survey (N=107) targeted to SNS users. The findings show that Facebook is closely connected to offline social life, and the fading of offline relationship was the most co...

Ties and social bonds are considered as social capital and assets of the person and the person can be accessed at these links from the resources and support has great importance in sociology. The overall goal of this research was to study social networks and social ties of women and their husbands, living in Babol. Types of social networks(formal relationships, informal relationships) and the s...

the relationship between individual s perception of organizational justice and their social capital has been studied in this research. social capital analyzes with trust, involvement and civil leadership, giving and volunteering, informal social ties, diversity in friends. organizational justice divided in three dimensions: they are distributive justice, procedural justice and interactional jus...

This paper describes a Social Network Analysis toolkit to monitor an Enterprise Social Network and help analyzing informal leadership as a function of social ties and topic discussions. The toolkit has been developed in the context of a regional project, Fiordaliso, funded by Regione Lazio (a region of central Italy) and leaded by Reply, an international network of specialized companies in the ...

This paper seeks to contribute to social capital research by linking measures of formal and informal forms of social capital to social mobility trajectories and assessing their impact on social trust. Drawing on data from a recent national survey--Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion (2003/2004)--we analyse formal civic engagement and informal social connections. The latter data are obtained u...

Building on two established perspectives on the political party, in this paper we view the party as an organized network of formal and informal relationships between individuals that reflects national cleavages. We test this interpretation using two Italian parties of the 1970s that played major roles in shaping political and social life of the country: the Christian Democrats, or DC, and the C...

3. SNS AS POLYVALENT TOOLS OF MULTILATERAL ASSOCIATION 10 3.1 Reinforcing existing offline relations 10 3.2 Conserving and revitalizing older relationships 11 3.3 Efficient use of social capital and management of many "weak ties" 12 3.4 Extended reach of highly trusted weak ties 14 3.5 Empowerment of informal network relations vis-à-vis formal institutional structures 16 3.6 Lowering the thresh...

This paper incorporates job search through personal contacts into an equilibrium matching model with a segregated labour market. Job search in the public submarket is competitive which is in contrast with the bargaining nature of wages in the informal job market. Moreover, the social capital of unemployed workers is endogenous depending on the employment status of their contacts. This paper sho...

This research assessed the direct and indirect influences of renovated public spaces (parks and sports facilities) on social cohesion and residential satisfaction, in the context of low and medium-low socio economic status individuals in Mexico. The research method is based on structural equation models. The findings of the study suggest the importance of public spaces in promoting informal soc...