6th Conference on Applications of Social Network Analysis
Recognizing modes of acculturation in personal networks of migrants☆

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Abstract

An individual's personal network encodes social contacts as well as relations among them. Personal networks are therefore considered to be characteristic and meaningful variables of individuals—supplementing more traditional characteristics such as age, gender, race, or job position.

We analyze an ensemble of several hundred personal networks of migrants using a recently introduced classification method. As a result, individuals are partitioned into groups defined by similarity of their personal networks, and abstract summaries of classes are obtained. From the analysis we can conclude that Berry's modes of acculturation feature prominently in the empirical data.

Keywords

Personal networks
network ensemble
role structure
acculturation

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Research supported in part by DFG under grant GK 1042 Research Training Group “Explorative Analysis and Visualization of Large Information Spaces,” the University of Konstanz under grant FP 626/08, the European Commission through FP7-ICT-2007-C FET-Open Project BISON-211898, and the U.S. National Science Foundation, Award No. BCS-041742.

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