A decade of network change: Turnover, persistence and stability in personal communities

Social Networks

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 27-50

  Wellman, Barry ^a   Wong, Renita Yuk Lin ^b   Tindall, David ^b   Nazer, Nancy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Intimacy; Kinship; Marital change; Network change; Personal communities; Social support

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030638621     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-8733(96)00289-4     Document Type: Article

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