Networks in the global village :  life in contemporary communities / 
[edited] by Barry Wellman. 
 - xxiv, 377 pages ;  22 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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 / Vicente 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0813311500 9780813311500 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>98029479 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social networks.<br/>Communities<br/>Community life
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HM131  / .N453 1999 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>307