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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