Perspectives on further analyses

Our further publications will be based on the following types of analyses. First, in terms of empirical research we would like to take a more direct approach in analyzing dyads, triads, and social networks as the elementary units of sociological analysis. Second, we would like to introduce to our empirical analyses a number of variables that were not considered in the present volume. Particular significance is to be assigned to large batteries of psychological variables characterizing egos and alters, as well as to variables characterizing the intensity of their relations from varying perspectives. Third, we would like to introduce some of our empirical findings into the theoretical discussions currently underway in relational sociology. Fourth, we intend to concentrate on issues pertaining to the influence of social circles and networks on individual attributes, with a view to tackling the relations between the networked nature of social life, social inequality, and class structuration in society.