ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the main consequences of the networks for the social situation of the individuals, specifying the role of networks and sociability in the production of social situations. It analyzes the effects of the networks on the access individuals have to goods and services obtained in markets, including the labor market, but also others where goods and services are obtained in economic relationships involving generalized and non-personalized exchanges. Using quantitative techniques the chapter investigates the associations between relational patterns and some of the most important dimensions in the definition of social conditions via markets: the obtaining of jobs, the obtaining of jobs with certain tenure, social precariousness and monetary income. Poverty is important to restate that causality between the elements in considered as biunivocal, and if networks influence attributes and social situations. These also influence intensely the production and transformation of social networks.
