Visualizing personal networks

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Visualizing personal networks

• Claudia Aguilar
• Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

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Bosnia..?

• Despues_de_la_lluvia
• Terminological dissatisfaction
• Hegemonic discourse
• Practice/Analytical Categories
• New approach to overcome these categories

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Identification

• Social-relational process
• Depends on context
• Diferenciate between auto-identification and
  identification by others
• PERSONAL NETWORKS

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Previous research results

• Use of categories
• Discursive lines about the ontology of such
  categories
• Relation between use of categories, discourses
  and personal networks

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Discourses-Identity-Network

• Ethnicist
• Clash of civilizations
• Multiethnic
• Cosmopolitan

• Essentialist identity
• Excluding categories
• Homogeneous networks
• Essentialist identity
• Excluding categories with some nuance
• More heterogeneous networks
• Multiple identity
• No excluding categories
• Heterogeneous networks

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Conclusions

• We have found a relation between the discourse
  sustained by a person and the categories she/he
  uses to classify people and to identify
  him/herself.
• We have also found a relationship between the
  composition of personal networks (and therefore
  everyday life relationships) and the ethnic
  discourses that are maintained

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Conclusions (ii)

• Finally we have found that Bosnians play an
  important role in the network of multiethnic
  relationships, in which strong ties,
  surprisingly, are still very important.

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Current research Main Goal

• Analyse this identification complexity,
  understanding identification as a collective
  process in continuous negotiation through
  personal relationships in different contexts and
  situations.

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Methodology

• Ethnographic work
• Everyday life
• Interviews
• Field notes
• Discourse Analysis

• Social Network Analysis
• Personal Networks questionnaire
• EGONET
• Personal Networks Analysis

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EGONET Personal Networks

• Questions about EGO
• 45 known people
• Questions about alters
• Who knows who?

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Vizualization and discussion
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