SanJuanSur

Description

The SanJuanSur Dataset.

Standard Network Analysis

• SNA Report (html | csv)

File Downloads

SanJuanSur.xml (DyNetML)

Background

In 1948, American sociologists executed a large field study in the Turrialba region, which is a rural area in Costa Rica (Latin America). They were interested in the impact of formal and informal social systems on social change. Among other things, they investigated visiting relations between families living in haciendas (farms) in a neighborhood called San Juan Sur. The network of visiting ties is a simple directed graph: each arc represents "frequent visits" from one family to another. The exact number of visits was not recorded. Line values classify the visiting relation as ordinary (value one), visits among kin (value two), and visits among ritual kin, i.e., between god-parent and god-child.

References

• Charles P. Loomis, Julio O. Morales, Roy A. Clifford & Olen E. Leonard, Turrialba. Social Systems and the Introduction of Change (Glencoe (Ill.): The Free Press, 1953): p. 45 and 78.
• W. de Nooy, A. Mrvar, & V. Batagelj, Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), Chapter 9.

History

• Original author: Charles Price Loomis (1905-1995).
• Data compiled into Pajek data files by W. de Nooy, 2001