Based on my rejection of the social relations/personal relations dichotomy and on information obtained in field work done from 1993 to 1995 in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, I describe and analyze the way in which social actors form microgroups or networks of social relations made up of the dyadic relations they form with other individuals. These networks, in turn, are the basic components of social groups, or networks of networks After discussing the nature of and determining the personal ties which link a small business entrepreneur to other members of his personal ego network, I extend this analysis to include the personal networks of each member of ego's network. These eight additional networks bring the total number of relationships among 59 other small business entrepreneurs to the 91 dyads which they have formed among themselves. I show how the creation, preservation and modification of these relationships correspond to the successively broader geographical, social and historical contexts in which they are immersed, especially the immediate context of the Mexican-U.S. border, as well as the industrialization process in Mexico and official development policies for the border from World War II till the present On the way to proving the relevance of the hypothetical presuppositions in this study, I obtained certain important results: (a) I conceived, applied and proved the utility of a procedure for studying the social behavior and social personalities of specific actors; (b) I designed and applied a dynamic analytical model for studying personal relations from a sociological point of view, rather than from the traditional psychological perspective; (c) I sketched the basic elements of a sociological theory of personal relations; and (d) I suggested a research agenda which would allow me to complete the theory and refine the ideal procedures for testing it / acase@tulane.edu
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TULANE/oai:http://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/:tulane_25488 |
| Date | January 1999 |
| Contributors | Martinez-Escamilla, Victor Hugo (Author), Roberts, J. Timmons (Thesis advisor) |
| Publisher | Tulane University |
| Source Sets | Tulane University |
| Language | Spanish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | Access requires a license to the Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest) database., Copyright is in accordance with U.S. Copyright law |
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