Concept information
Preferred term
weak and strong ties
Definition
- The members of every community can be thought of as linked by a network of one-to-one ties between people who are related to one another as friends, neighbors, relatives, or coworkers. The distance between any two people is the minimum number of steps through ties in the network needed to go from one to the other. [Source: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World; Ties, Weak and Strong]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/weak_and_strong_ties
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