The increasing importance of friends: Changes in core discussion network composition in post-communist Hungary between 1997 – 2015

Albert, Fruzsina Ildikó and Koltai, Júlia Anna and Pethesné Dávid, Beáta (2021) The increasing importance of friends: Changes in core discussion network composition in post-communist Hungary between 1997 – 2015. SOCIAL NETWORKS, 66. pp. 139-145. ISSN 0378-8733

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Abstract

In order to detect changes in social connectivity, we examined evolutions in the personal network structure by analyzing over-time trends in the composition of the population’s core discussion networks on four crosssectional, nationally representative surveys between 1997 and 2015, in the era of post-communism, in Hungary. There has been a very significant change; in fact, a reversal of trends regarding the composition of the core discussion networks (CDNs) concerning kin and non-kin ties over the past decades. Our data suggest that friendship ties gained more importance. There seems to be a generation-specific aspect of the change: young people include family ties less often than older people and this effect strengthens over time. Women still have a higher ratio of kin ties compared to men and this effect does not change significantly during the analyzed period.

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