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This network represents 25 novices in a New England monastery by Samuel F. Sampson. The connections between them are affect relations.
Value 1 - most liked peer (full line)
Value -1 - least liked peer (dotted line)
This network is a part of the Samspon' Monastery network logged at time 4.

Background:

The data stem from an ethnographic study of community structure in a New England monastery by Samuel F. Sampson. The study describes several social relations among a group of men (novices) who were preparing to join a monastic order. The data sets presented here contain the affect relations among the novices, which were collected by asking them to indicate whom they liked most and whom they liked least. The novices were asked for a first, second, and third choice on both questions. The social relations were measured at five moments in time. The fourth measurement (at time T4) took place one week before four of the novitiates were expelled from the monastery.

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History:

• Original author: S.F. Sampson (University of Vermont, Dep. of Sociology 31 South Prospect Street, Burlington, Vermont 05405-0176, emeritus;)
• Data coded into Pajek data files (from the original book) by W. de Nooy, 2001.

References:

• S.F. Sampson, A Novitiate in a Period of Change. An Experimental and Case Study of Social Relationships (PhD thesis Cornell University, 1968)
• W. de Nooy, A. Mrvar, & V. Batagelj, Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), Chapter 4.
• The UCINET version of Sampson's data

More information:

• http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/data/esna/sampson.htm
• http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/book/esna2.htm