Examples of bonds in the following topics:
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- Control theory advances the proposition that weak bonds between the individual and society allow people to deviate.
- Hirschi argued a person follows norms because they have a bond with society.
- These social bonds have four elements: opportunity, attachment, belief, and involvement.
- When any one of these bonds are weakened or broken a person is more likely to act in defiance.
- From a control theory perspective, children who are properly bonded to their parents would be involved in less crime than children who have weaker parental bonds; control theory assumes that the family is a naturally law-abiding institution.
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- Figure 3.2 is an example of a binary (as opposed to a signed or ordinal or valued) and directed (as opposed to a co-occurrence or co-presence or bonded-tie) graph.
- Figure 3.3 is an example of a "co-occurrence" or "co-presence" or "bonded-tie" graph that is binary and undirected (or simple).
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- Both A and B are "co-present" or "co-occurring" in the relation of "having a conversation. " Or, we might also describe the situation as being one of an the social institution of a "conversation" that by definition involves two (or more) actors "bonded" in an interaction (Berkowitz).
- "Simple" or "Co-occurrence" or "co-presence" or "bonded-tie" graphs use the convention of connecting the pair of actors involved in the relation with a simple line segment (no arrow head).
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- Distinguish between directed relations or ties and "bonded" relations or ties.
- How does a reciprocated directed relation differ from a "bonded" relation?
- Would it make more sense to use "directed" ties, or "bonded" ties for my graph?
- Make graphs of a "star" network, a "line" and a "circle. " Think of real world examples of these kinds of structures where the ties are directed and where they are bonded, or undirected.
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- Each tie or relation may be directed (i.e. originates with a source actor and reaches a target actor), or it may be a tie that represents co-occurrence, co-presence, or a bonded-tie between the pair of actors.
- Directed ties are represented with arrows, bonded-tie relations are represented with line segments.
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- They argue that shared activities help to build emotional bonds among family members, and that marriage and family relationships are based on negotiated meanings.
- The interactionist perspective emphasizes that families reinforce and rejuvenate bonds through symbolic mechanism rituals such as family meals and holidays.
- They argue that shared activities help to build emotional bonds and that marriage and family relationships are based on negotiated meanings.
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- Emile Durkheim studied how societies maintained social integration after traditional bonds were replaced by modern economic relations.
- One of Durkheim's primary goals was to analyze how how modern societies could maintain social integration after the traditional bonds of family and church were replaced by modern economic relations.
- But as people engage in more economic activity with neighbors or distant traders, they begin to loosen the traditional bonds of family, religion, and moral solidarity that had previously ensured social integration.
- Thus, although modern society may undermine the traditional bonds of mechanical solidarity, it replaces them with the bonds of organic solidarity.
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- The bond between two people who are both lawyers is an example of gemeinschaft, or mechanical solidarity; the two share a community because they have their occupation in common.
- The bond between a lawyer and a criminal is an example of gesellschaft or organic solidarity; the two exist in the same society in a relationship based on interdependence, as the criminal provides income to the lawyer and the lawyer provides legal services to the criminal.
- The bond between a lawyer and a criminal is an example of gesellschaft or organic solidarity -- the two exist in the same society in a relationship based on interdependence, as the criminal provides income to the lawyer and the lawyer provides legal services to the criminal.
- Unlike gemeinschaften, gesellshcaften emphasize secondary relationships rather than familial ties, resulting in an individual feeling less of a bond and less loyalty to society at large.
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- A group is said to be in a state of cohesion when its members possess bonds linking them to one another and to the group as a whole.
- Groups that possess strong unifying forces typically stick together over time, whereas groups that lack such bonds between members usually disintegrate.
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- A social network indicates the way that people and organizations are connected through various social familiarities, ranging from casual acquaintance to close familial bonds.
- Strong ties, like family bonds are called strong ties.