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Structural Equivalence

Structural equivalence identifies actors who occupy the same position in a network because they have identical ties to identical others. Defined by François Lorrain and Harrison White in 1971, it formalizes the idea that two people are interchangeable in the social structure when they relate to exactly the same set of third parties, and it provides the foundation for partitioning networks into positions and building blockmodels.

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Structural Equivalence Analysis of Networks
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / sociology
  • Lorrain, F., & White, H. C. (1971). Structural equivalence of individuals in social networks. The Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 1(1), 49–80. · DOI 10.1080/0022250X.1971.9989788
  • Burt, R. S. (1976). Positions in networks. Social Forces, 55(1), 93–122. · DOI 10.1093/sf/55.1.93
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Taxonomic bucketBlockmodelingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyHomophily Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketPositional Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.See alsoSocial Network Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyTriad Censusmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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