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- 1 0 6 -John Foster, 1974 . Class Struggleandthe Industrial Revolution : Early Industrial Capitalismin Three English Towns, London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson .This is a fine structural account of the establishment of industrial capitalism--and working-class/bourgeois contentions for power--in early nineteenth century Oldham (a Manchester area industrial town) .Of particular methodological interest (pp . 195-96) is Foster's development of a friendship matrix of thebourgeoisie and his analysis of network clusters and chainsJoseph GaZaskiewicz, 1979 . Social Networks and Community Politics (Volume 75, Sage Library of SocialResearch) Beverly Hills, Cal : Sage .This book argues that social structures emerge out of the purposeful action of social agents -- whetherindividuals or organizations -- who seek to realize self-interests . Depending on their abilities andinterests, the actors will negotiate routinized oatterns of relationships that enhance these interests atthe expense of others . Galaskiewicz points out that he is, in fact creating a strategy for studying communityinstitutional structures . He argues that centrality in institutional networks is crucial in explainingpolitical participation of organizations . He also stresses that the political opinions of organizationsare limited not only by their individual resources, but also by their structural position in interorganizationalnetworks .Margaret PeiZ (Birmingham) . Forthcoming . Cities and Suburbs : Urban Life in West Africa . London : LongmansSteffen W. Schmidt, et al ., eds . 1977 . Friends, Followers and Factions : A Reader in Political CZienteZism .Berkeley : University of California Press .An excellent collection of 40 articles ; man_ are classics (e .g . Adrian Mayer, Eric Wolf, Abner Cohen,Alvin Couldner .)Sections include : Reciprocity, Networks and Dyads ; "heories of Clientelism ; Clientelism in TraditionalSettings ; -- in Local Perspective ; -- Middle-Level Perspectives (Brokerage) ; -- National Perspectives ;-- Theory and Development .Karl SchuessZer, ed . 1978 . Sociological Methodology 1979 . San Francisco : Jossey-Bass .Contains articles by : Nancy Brandon Tuma and Michael Hannan, "Approaches to the Censoring Problem inAnalysis of Event Histories" Bonnie Erickson "Some Problems of Inference from Chain Data ."Andrea Menefee Singh, 1976 . Neighbourhood and Social Networks in Urban India . New Delhi : Marwah .A descriptive analysis of voluntary association and neighbourhood interaction among South Indianmigrants in contemporary Delhi .Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff, 1978 . The Network Nation : Human Communication Via Computer .Reading, Mass : Addison-Wesley ."This book is concerned with the recent emergence of a new alternative for conducting group communicationprocesses among groups or networks of persons or organizations such as meetings, study groups, andteaching-learning exchanges . It uses computers and computer terminals to provide a written form of discussionor meeting among a group of people . In the United States, it has most often been called 'computerizedconferencing' ; and in Canada, 'computer mediated interaction' . Sometimes it is known as 'teleconferencing',although this latter term is also applied to T .V . conferencing . . ."Helping you to understandthe nature and social implications of this new technology is the purpose of this book . The overall impact, wepredict, will be to : hasten the transformation of the social structure to what we term 'The Network Nation' ."ContentsA . The nature of computerized conferencing . An Overview : Computerized conferencing and relatedtechnologies . Development and Diversification of computerized conferencing . Social and Psychologicalprocess in computerized conferencing . B . Potential applications and impacts of computerized conferencing .Potential impacts of computerized conferencing on managerial and staff functions . Computer-mediatedcommunications and the disadvantaged . Public use . Science and technology . Research imperatives andopportunities . C . Projecting the future : The technology and its regulation . Structured communications . Thehuman-machine interface : design, dilemmas, and opportunities . Technology, economics and utility . Policy andregulation . Societal impacts of computerized conferencing . References . Bibliography on computerizedconferencing . Author Index . Subject Index .