Kanazawa, Satoshi 
ORCID: 0000-0003-3786-8797
(2001)
Where do social structures come from?
Advances in Group Processes, 18.
pp. 161-183.
ISSN 0882-6145
Abstract
While structuralism and network theory have been enormously successful empirically, they have not been able to explain the origins of social structures and networks. I contend that the emerging field of evolutionary psychology can help us explain how some social structures and networks emerge. I illustrate my point with a persistent empirical puzzle in the social networks literature (why women have more kin in their personal networks than men do), and provide an evolutionary psychological explanation for this phenomenon. I test two implications of this explanation with the 1985 Social Networks module of the General Social Survey. The data provide support for the evolutionary psychological explanation of women's kincentric networks.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/books/seri... |
| Additional Information: | © 2001 Emerald Group Publishing Limited |
| Divisions: | Management |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Mar 2010 11:25 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Nov 2025 03:15 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/27285 |
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