In network research, we roughly distinguish three different degrees of strength of relationships. All three relationship strengths vary in terms of their characteristics and their tasks. Important are also combinations between the different degrees of strength that occur within relationship structures. Of course, there are transitions between these, meaning that one cannot precisely distinguish whether it is still a weak or already a strong relationship. Sometimes the three different degrees of strength are also viewed as categorical. The latter means that one clearly distinguishes the types of relationships from each other or can distinguish them. If it is correct that the relationship strengths to be distinguished in degrees of strength can be viewed as different categories, then one can deduce from this, that, when the relationship strength changes, the character of the relationships also changes as a result. For example, acquaintance would become friendship if the relationship were transformed from a weak to a strong one. In the transformation of a super weak relationship to a weak one, a weak relationship would arise if both were to start a conversation and remember each other at a repeated meeting and perhaps then pick up the thread of conversation again. To integrate the phenomenon of the super weak relationship into network research, I recently wrote a book (Stegbauer 2024). As already evident in this paragraph, we distinguish in network research strong and weak relationships and most recently also super weak relationships.

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Assumption 4: Strength of Relationships and What That Means for Us

  • Christian Stegbauer

摘要

In network research, we roughly distinguish three different degrees of strength of relationships. All three relationship strengths vary in terms of their characteristics and their tasks. Important are also combinations between the different degrees of strength that occur within relationship structures. Of course, there are transitions between these, meaning that one cannot precisely distinguish whether it is still a weak or already a strong relationship. Sometimes the three different degrees of strength are also viewed as categorical. The latter means that one clearly distinguishes the types of relationships from each other or can distinguish them. If it is correct that the relationship strengths to be distinguished in degrees of strength can be viewed as different categories, then one can deduce from this, that, when the relationship strength changes, the character of the relationships also changes as a result. For example, acquaintance would become friendship if the relationship were transformed from a weak to a strong one. In the transformation of a super weak relationship to a weak one, a weak relationship would arise if both were to start a conversation and remember each other at a repeated meeting and perhaps then pick up the thread of conversation again. To integrate the phenomenon of the super weak relationship into network research, I recently wrote a book (Stegbauer 2024). As already evident in this paragraph, we distinguish in network research strong and weak relationships and most recently also super weak relationships.