TY  - JOUR
A1  - Stegbauer, Christian
T1  - Situations, networks and culture - the case of a golden wedding as an example for the production of local cultures
T2  - Forum qualitative Sozialforschung: FQS
N2  - The article focuses on the way events are connected with preceding events of the same type carrying out a participatory observation on a golden wedding celebrated in a small village in the middle of Germany. Events are formally connected by their participants. In contrast to participant networks, the chronological order of event-event networks is evident. Different models for the connection of events are discussed with reference to a classic dataset of the "Deep South" study DAVIS, GARDNER and GARDNER (1941). A stability of forms (in the sense of SIMMEL's "formal sociology" [1908]) was found with a variation of some elements. The main reason for the stability is the uncertainty that arises when people temporarily change their position from that of guest to host. They fall back on approved forms for their celebration. Professionals are the other important position. They ensure that events will take place as they did in the past. It is proposed that an analysis of the chronological order of networks between events can lead to a renaissance in the cultural analysis of forms. The analysis presented is an approach to an investigation of the development of culture.
KW  - network research
KW  - situations
KW  - local cultures
KW  - two-mode networks
KW  - event-event networks
KW  - uncertainty reduction
KW  - participatory observation
KW  - network dynamics
KW  - production and analysis of culture
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/43659
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-436590
SN  - 1438-5627
N1  - This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
VL  - 14
IS  - No. 1, Art. 6
PB  - Freie Univ. Berlin
CY  - Berlin
ER  -