Networks in the Global Village
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Preface

Table of Contents

• "The Network Community: An Introduction," Barry Wellman

• The Elements of Personal Communities, Barry Wellman and Stephanie Potter

• The Network Basis of Social Support: A Network Is More Than the Sum of Its Ties, Barry Wellman and Milena Gulia

• Neighbor Networks of Black and White Americans, Barrett A. Lee and Karen E. Campbell

• Social Networks Among the Urban Poor: Inequality and Integration in a Latin American City, Vincente Espinoza

• The Diversity of Personal Networks in France: Social Stratification and Relational Structures, Alexis Ferrand, Lise Mounier, and Alain Degenne

• Network Capital in Capitalist, Communist, and Postcommunist Countries, Endre Sik and Barry Wellman

• Getting a Job Through a Web of Guanxi in China, Yanjie Bian

• Personal Community Networks in Contemporary Japan, Shinsuke Otani

• Using Social Networks to Exit Hong Kong, Janet W. Salaff, Eric Fong, and Wong Siu-lun

• Net-surfers Don't Ride Alone: Virtual Communities as Communities, Barry Wellman and Milena Gulia