Communities in Affiliation Networks with Attitudunal Actors

Abstract

Our aim here is to plead for the significance of cultural considerations of overlapping inter-attitudinal patterns right next to well established structural considerations of interorganizational networks based on overlapping membership patterns. In particular, we examine how the analytical sociological methodological incorporation of cultural attributes or attitudes might enhance our understanding of structural community categorizations in interorganizational networks. For this purpose, we analyze data of the International Peace Protest Survey (IPPS) on the world-wide peace protests of February, 15, 2003, in order to manifest the added value offered by the consideration of the culture-structure duality in participation studies.