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1 juillet 2013
- handle: 10670/1.ujyzi8
- halshs: halshs-00927323
- doi: 10.1016/j.socnet.2013.04.006
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alliance networks multinomial model morphology indicators kinship networks -Organizing Systems [nlin.AO]Citer ce document
Camille Roth et al., « Random alliance networks », HAL-SHS : sociologie, ID : 10.1016/j.socnet.2013.04.006
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The morphological properties of kinship and marriage alliance networks, such as circuits, are typically considered as indicators of sociological phenomena -- yet, they may also be partly coincidental. To assert the contribution of chance to these morphological features, we develop a standardized method where empirical alliance networks are compared with a random baseline. We apply our framework to a variety of empirical cases and show that some corpuses are remarkably well reconstructed by our random model, while others still feature significant divergencies which may be partly connected to field-based experience. On the whole, our approach may be used to scrutinize the matrimonial role of social groups as asserted by native or ethnological theory.