Double-embeddedness: Spatial and relational contexts of tie persistence and re-formation |
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| Institution: | 1. University of California, Berkeley, Department of Sociology, United States;2. University of Chicago, Department of Sociology, United States;3. Rutgers University, Department of Sociology, United States;1. Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia;2. Hinode Science Center, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan;3. Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia;1. Unidad de Prevención del Sida y otras ITS de Valencia, Centro de Salud Pública de Valencia, Dirección General de Salud Pública, Conselleria de Sanitat, Valencia, España;2. Centro de Salud de Fuensanta-Barrio de la Luz, Departamento del Hospital General de Valencia, Valencia, España;1. Informatics Department, Federal University of Technology, Curitiba, PR 80230-901, Brazil;2. Department of Computer Science, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG 31270-010, Brazil;3. Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP 13083-852, Brazil;4. Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, CA 95616-8562, USA;1. Department of Supply Chain Management, Broad College of Business, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA;2. University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RH, United Kingdom;3. Department of Supply Chain Management, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA |
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| Abstract: | Personal relationships are embedded in both spatial and relational contexts. Using data on 60 intentional communities from the Urban Communes Data Set, we examine how such embedding is related to the persistence and re-formation of close personal ties over a thirteen year period, beginning from when most members had been out of their group environments more than a decade. We find that local network structure—the pattern of dyads immediately surrounding any dyad—is extremely weighty in which ties persist, which lapse, and which are re-initiated, but that the precise ways in which local structure affects contact are bound up with the distance between dyad members. We also find asymmetries in these processes that other studies have been unable to uncover—that processes that lead ties to be dropped are not the same as those that lead them to be renewed; that increases in local embeddedness are not opposite of decreases; that change in contact is not the same as change in friendship. Finally, there is evidence of hierarchical effects influencing the retention of friendships more than twenty-five years after most respondents left their groups. |
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| Keywords: | Tie persistence Tie decay Network structure Distance Longitudinal analysis |
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