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"Paul D. McLean weaves slants from Bourdieu and Swidler and Goffman together into his own trenchant vision of networking as identity process. You get analytic power along with rich historical understanding wrung from recalcitrant handwriting and ambiguous pronouncements in hundreds of letters across two centuries. Yet McLean is also witty and playful. His brief conclusion is an account of agency and culture so lucid as to be transposable to studies of your own."-Harrison C. White, Columbia University, author ofIdentity and Control: A Structural Theory of Social ActionMcLean, Paul D. is the author of 'Art of the Network', published 2007 under ISBN 9780822341000 and ISBN 082234100X.
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