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Frontmatter – FOREWORD – Preface – Table of contents – Part 1. Theory and methodology – 1 Social network: Its use as a conceptual framework in family analysis – 2 Networks, norms and institutions – 3 Network analysis and social theory Some remarks – 4 Some applications of the notion of density to network analysis – Part 2. Networks compared – 5 Network density among urban families – 6 Social network and conjugal role in urban Zambia: Towards a reformulation of the Bott hypothesis – 7 Two types of partial networks in Burundi – 8 An exploration of two first-order zones – Part 3. Network and coalitions – 9 Coalitions in Sicilian peasant society – 10 Politics on the village level – 11 Coalitions and network analysis – Bibliography – Biographical data of authors – Subject index