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 "Queer Women on the Net" project: http://www.queerville.ca "GenTech" project: http://www.shecan.com
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