"I have classed as transactions which were sociational in content those where the activity was markedly convivial such as general conversation, the sharing of gossip and the enjoyment of a drink together. Examples of instrumental transactions are the lending or giving of money, assistance at times of personal crisis and help at work."
Kapferer also observed and recorded instrumental transactions, many of which are unilateral (directed) rather than reciprocal (undirected), though those transactions are not recorded here. In addition, there was a second period of data collection, from September 1965 to January 1966, but these data are also not recorded here. All data are given in Kapferer's 1972 book on pp. 176-179.
During the first time period, there were 43 individuals working in this
particular tailor shop; however, the better-known dataset includes only those
39 individuals who were present during both time collection periods.
(Missing are the workers named Lenard, Peter, Lazarus, and Laurent.)
Thus, we give two separate network datasets here: kapferer
is the
well-known 39-individual dataset, whereas kapferer2
is the full
43-individual dataset.
data(kapferer)
network
objects, kapferer
and kapferer2
.
The kapferer
dataset contains only the 39 individuals who were present
at both data-collection time periods. However, these data only reflect data
collected during the first period. The individuals' names are included as
a nodal covariate called names
.