Sampson's Monastery Data

Description

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. Four relations are coded, with separate matrices for positive and negative ties on the relation.

Attributes

The Sampson Monastary data consists of four different relational networks: esteem, liking, influence, and praise. Each member of the monastary was asjed to rank only his top three choices for each tie. Along with each of these networks of a positive relation there is a corresponding negative relation. Disesteem, disliking, negative influence, and blame. In all rankings 3 indicates the highest or first choice and 1 the last choice. (Some subjects offered tied ranks for their top four choices).

Collection

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. Most of the present data are retrospective, collected after the breakup occurred. 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.

Licenses and Citation

Sampson's Monastary Data (YEAR) http://www.networkdata.ics.uci.edu
A citation to the original published source; if the data was obtained from a secondary published source (e.g., data republished in Wasserman and Faust), an appropriately labeled citation should indicate this fact.

If the source of the data set does not specified otherwise, this data set is protected by the Creative Commons License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/.

Source

The data source should be cited as:
Vladimir Batagelj and Andrej Mrvar (2006): Pajek datasets
http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/data/.

References

Sampson, S. (1969). Crisis in a cloister. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Cornell University.
When publishing results obtained using this data set the original authors should be cited. In addition this package should be cited as:
Christopher L. DuBois, Emma S. Spiro, Zack Almquist, Mark S. Handcock, David Hunter, Carter T. Butts, Steven M. Goodreau, and Martina Morris. 2003 netdata: A Collection of Network Data
http://www.csde.washington.edu/statnet