For a structural analysis of relational contents: results and discussion of a hierarchical ascending cluster analysis

Alexis Ferrand (1)

1 LASMAS - Laboratoire d'analyse sociologique et de méthodes appliquées aux sciences sociales

That paper presents a step of a research oriented by two aims. One is "substantial", and can be summarized as an attempt to show content particularity of special relations which can be said created by and linked to life cycle events. Here, I wouldn't precise that aim. The second one is of more general concern: it deals with methodological and theoretical assumptions in personal network analysis, mainly with a way to take into account each "relation" not as a set of independent interactions or social exchanges but as a system in which partial contents are linked together. Data should be used to illustrate the discussion which stand at the "zero level" of personal network analysis in so far as only relations between ego and alters are examined, without information and comments on alters-alters relations.

Mots clés: Personal network; structure of relations; relational pattern; roles; methodology; cluster analysis

Mots clés: Réseau personnel; structure des relations; modèle relationnel; rôle; méthodologie; classification automatique

Domaines: Sociologie

Alexis Ferrand. For a structural analysis of relational contents: results and discussion of a hierarchical ascending cluster analysis. First European conference on social network analysis-, Jun 1989, Groningen, Pays-Bas. ⟨halshs-00261975⟩