Networks in the Global Village examines how people live through personal communities: their networks of friends, neighbors, relatives, and coworkers. It is the first book to compare the communities of people around the world.

The Network Community: An Introduction, 1 The Elements of Personal Communities, 2 The Network Basis of Social Support: A Network Is More Than the Sum of Its Ties, 3 Neighbor Networks of Black and White Americans, 4 Social Networks Among the Urban Poor: Inequality and Integration in a Latin American City, 5 The Diversity of Personal Networks in France: Social Stratification and Relational Structures, 6 Network Capital in Capitalist, Communist, and Postcommunist Countries, 7 Getting a Job Through a Web of Guanxi in China, 8 Personal Community Networks in Contemporary Japan, 9 Using Social Networks to Exit Hong Kong, 10 Net-Surfers Don't Ride Alone: Virtual Communities as Communities,