Research Library U-Z
Research Library: U-Z
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Social Networks, the 'Work' and Work Force of Chronic Illness Self-Management: A Survey Analysis of Personal Communities (2013)
Vassilev, Ivaylo; Rogers, Anne; Blickem, Christian; Brooks, Helen; Kapadia, Dharmi; Kennedy, Anne; Sanders, Caroline; Kirk, Sue; Reeves, David. PLOS ONE, 8(4), e59723. DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0059723
Using concentric-circle network mapping with 300 adults living with chronic heart disease or diabetes in deprived areas of Greater Manchester, this study quantifies how illness-relevant work is distributed across personal network members. It demonstrates that the division of labour is shaped far more by member characteristics such as gender, proximity, and frequency of contact than by the health or socioeconomic status of the person with the condition. [draft]
Population: n=300; Adults with chronic heart disease, diabetes, or both, recruited from GP disease registers in deprived areas of Greater Manchester, North ....
Keywords: chronic-illness, self-management, social-networks, egocentric-networks, informal-care.
Evidence: moderate, empirical, cross-sectional. Risk of bias: medium.
The Community Question: The Intimate Networks of East Yorkers (1979)
Wellman, Barry. American Journal of Sociology, 84(5), 1201-1231
Wellman's 1979 East York study is the foundational empirical test of whether urban primary ties persist and in what structural form. Using egocentric network data from 845 adults, it demonstrates that intimate networks are prevalent but sparsely knit, spatially dispersed, and asymmetrically reciprocated. [draft]
Population: n=845; 845 adults aged 18 and over residing in East York, a predominantly British-Canadian upper-working-class and lower-middle-class inner subu....
Keywords: personal-community, intimate-networks, community-question, social-support, tie-strength.
Evidence: moderate, empirical, cross-sectional. Risk of bias: medium. Flags: no DOI recorded.
Physical Place and Cyberplace: The Rise of Personalized Networking (2001)
Wellman, Barry. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 25(2), 227-252. DOI 10.1111/1468-2427.00236
Wellman argues that community has shifted through three successive forms: door-to-door (place-bound neighbourhood groups), place-to-place (interhousehold networks spanning distance), and now person-to-person (individualised, portable, networked connectivity). This trajectory gives a precise historical and structural vocabulary for understanding how physical space and cyberspace interpenetrate rather than compete. [draft]
Population: No primary sample; the paper is a theoretical essay drawing on secondary studies, field observations and personal communications..
Keywords: social-networks, community, networked-individualism, cyberplace, mobile-communication.
Evidence: low, theoretical, conceptual-essay. Risk of bias: high. Flags: high risk of bias.