Contact diaries: Building archives of actual and comprehensive personal networks

Field Methods

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 194-217

  Fu, Yang Chih ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOCIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Active networks; Contact diary; Daily contact; Egocentered networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 38549137620     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: 15523969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X06298590     Document Type: Article

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