The network basis of social support: A network is more than the sum of its ties

Networks in the Global Village: Life in Contemporary Communities

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 83-118

  Wellman, Barry ^a   Gulia, Milena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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