Newcomb Fraternity

Post date: Nov 29, 2011 4:59:22 PM

Overview

Network Dataset

The dataset name is NEWFRAT, and includes Fifteen 17x17 matrices:

NEWC0 - NEWC15 (except NEWC9) non-symmetric, valued (rankings).

Background

These 15 matrices record weekly sociometric preference rankings from 17 men attending the University of Michigan in the fall of 1956; data from week 9 are missing. A "1" indicates first preference, and no ties were allowed.

The men were recruited to live in off-campus (fraternity) housing, rented for them as part of the Michigan Group Study Project supervised by Theodore Newcomb from 1953 to 1956. All were incoming transfer students with no prior acquaintance of one another.

References

• • Newcomb T. (1961). The acquaintance process. New York: Holt, Reinhard & Winston.

• Nordlie P. (1958). A longitudinal study of interpersonal attraction in a natural group setting. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Michigan.

• White H., Boorman S. and Breiger R. (1977). Social structure from multiple networks, I. Blockmodels of roles and positions. American Journal of Sociology, 81, 730-780.