Network diversity, contact diversity, and status attainment

Social Networks

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 601-613

  Son, Joonmo ^a   Lin, Nan ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact diversity; Network diversity; Status attainment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872370918     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2012.06.006     Document Type: Article

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