Patron-Client Networks

(noun)

Patron-client networks are defined by the fluid interactions they produce. Organized crime groups operate as smaller units within the overall network, and as such tend towards valuing significant others, familiarity of social and economic environments, or tradition.

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Examples of Patron-Client Networks in the following topics:

  • Organized Crime

    • Patron-client networks are defined by the fluid interactions they produce.
    • Organized crime groups operate as smaller units within the overall network, and as such tend towards valuing significant others, familiarity of social and economic environments, or tradition.
    • Some notable patron-client networks involve the Russian and Albanian mafias, the Japanese Yakuza, the Irish mob, and the Sicilian and Italian American Cosa Nostra (i.e. the Sicilian mafia).

  • Bibliography

    • "Graph theory in network analysis" Social Networks 5: 235-244.
    • Relations of production and class rule: The hidden basis of patron-clientage. pp. 198-220 in Wellman and Berkowitz (eds.)
    • A graph theoretic blocking procedure for social networks, Social Networks, 4: 147-167
    • Centrality in social networks: Conceptual clarification, Social Networks, 1: 215-39.
    • The Urban Black Community as Network: Toward a Social Network Perspective.