Mitchell centre Seminar series
| Dates: | 9 November 2022 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 18:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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Raffaele Vacca
Statale University of Milan
Unequal ties: describing and explaining stratification in personal networks
Personal networks influence individual behaviors and outcomes in such diverse areas as health and well-being, employment and professional advancement, and immigrant incorporation. Personal networks are also highly variable in contemporary societies, reflecting and reinforcing inequalities in other domains of social life. Sources of diversity and variation in personal relationships have multiplied in recent decades, yet there is also evidence that stratification in personal networks often follows old dimensions of inequality such as socioeconomic and migration status. This seminar will review essential concepts in personal network research and illustrate them with two recent projects investigating inequalities in social support and personal relationships. The first project studies variation in intergenerational relationships -- one of the determinants of Covid-19 contagion and mortality in the elderly population -- among old adults in an early European epicenter of the pandemic. The second project examines stratification in compositional and structural characteristics of personal networks between migrant generations and non-migrants in California, USA -- a potential source of further wealth and health inequalities affecting migrants.
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