Pajek datasets from the book

Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek
Wouter de Nooy, Andrej Mrvar, Vladimir Batagelj

Sampson's monastery.

Dataset   Sampson

Description

Sampson.net: Pajek longitudinal network data file, 25 vertices (novices), 322 valued arcs (affect relations; 3 - most liked peer, 2 - second most liked, 1 - third most liked, -1 - third least liked, -2, second least liked, -3 - least liked), no edges, no loops, five different moments (time 1 thru 5).
Sampson_T4.net: 18 vertices (novices present at T4), 33 valued arcs (affect relations; 1 - most liked peer, -1 - least liked), no edges, no loops.
Sampson_cloisterville_T4.clu: 18 vertices (novices present at T4), class 1 - attended the minor seminary of 'Cloisterville' before coming to the monastery, class 0 - did not attend the minor seminary of 'Cloisterville'.
Sampson_factions_T4.clu: 18 vertices (novices present at T4), classified into four factions by Sampson (1 - Young Turks, 2 - Loyal Opposition, 3 - Outcasts, 4 - an interstitial group).
Sampson.paj: Pajek project file with all networks and partitions listed above.

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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.
Some novices had attended the minor seminary of 'Cloisterville' before they came to the monastery.
Based on his observations and analyses, Sampson divided the novices into four groups: Young Turks, Loyal Opposition, Outcasts, and an interstitial group. The Loyal Opposition consists of the novices who entered the monastery first. The Young Turks arrived later, in a period of change. They questioned practices in the monastery, which the members of the Loyal Opposition defended. Some novices did not take sides in this debate, so they are labeled 'interstitial'. The Outcasts are novices who were not accepted in the group.

References

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

History

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