Dissertation Information for Joung Im KimNAME:
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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Incomplete - Inspected Title: THE STRENGTH OF WEAK TIES: A CONCEPTUAL ELABORATION AT THE DYAD-LEVEL
Abstract: "This dissertation conceptually elaborates the strength-of-weak-ties argument advanced by Mark Granovetter (1973). Past research has not consistently found that weak ties play an instrumental role in obtaining useful resources. Chapter 1 discusses several issues that may contribute to inconsistencies in the findings. Chapter 2 conceptually analyzes three concepts central to this argument: tie strength, tie instrumentality, and bridgingness. In our explication of these concepts, we introduced two concepts overlooked in most earlier studies: dyadic personal networks and network accessibility. The concept of network accessibility describes the structure of nonoverlapping parts of dyadic personal networks, and is defined as the degree to which the dyadic partners provide each other with links to other people and potential access to their resources through personal networks. The concept, network accessibility, provides theoretical linkages in the strength-of-weak-ties argument, by giving a rationale for the negative relationship between tie strength and instrumentality. |
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Students under Joung Im Kim
ADVISEES:
- Christy M. Alarcon - University of Hawaii (2001)
COMMITTEESHIPS:
- Michael Cress - University of Hawaii (2006)