Structural cohesion and embeddedness¶
Moody, J., & White, D. R. (2003). Structural cohesion and embeddedness: A hierarchical concept of social groups. American Sociological Review, 68(1), 103-127.
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Primes¶
- Group Cohesion
- The signature is dimensional rather than categorical: it locates a system on a continuum from "flies apart at the first shock" to "holds through severe stress," and the position can be raised or lowered by acting on any of the underlying binding sources.
This sourceFormalizes structural cohesion as the minimum number of actors whose removal disconnects the group (vertex connectivity), supplying the structural signature and the single-variable compression of a web of pairwise ties.
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The abstract defines structural cohesion as a minimum vertex connectivity count, backing the dimensional frame, but says nothing on the continuum's extremes or on raising/lowering cohesion via binding sources.
“Structural cohesion is defined as the minimum number of actors who, if removed from a group, would disconnect the group. A structural dimension of embeddedness can then be defined through the hierarchical nesting of these cohesive structures.”
- The signature is dimensional rather than categorical: it locates a system on a continuum from "flies apart at the first shock" to "holds through severe stress," and the position can be raised or lowered by acting on any of the underlying binding sources.
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