Geen diatitel

1
Micro-foundations of Social Networks Part I
Making behavioral theories more complex
Siegwart Lindenberg ICS / Department of
Sociology University of Groningen The Netherlands
2

• Model building
• Methodological individualism actor orientation
• Method of decreasing abstraction
• Principle of sufficient complexity

3

• Interdependencies
• Structural (theories on generator properties of
  relations)
• Cognitive (theories on framing and
  categorization)
• Functional (theories on goals and goal
  achievement)

4
Theory of goals and goal achievement Own
production is central Fig. 1 Substantive goals
5
(No Transcript)
6
Theory of framing Framing cognitive steering
by goals through attention Schematic
depiction of foreground (blank) and background
(gray) goals in framing, with (from left to
right) decreasing salience that leads to a frame
switch
7
Goals and frames combined Master frames The
three master frames in their relation to the main
operational goal
Veil
8

• Theory of structure generation
• By product of resources and goal realization
• Externalities and control
• Joint production (with transitivity and
  similarity)

9

• Networks and groups
• (Joint) production of well-being
• Dyadic
• In groups
• Dyads in groups
• Structure of intergroup relations networks of
  groups and groups of networks