ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the main features of the personal networks under study and analytically explores their regularities, considering social attributes. The observation of the associations between networks and basic social attributes such as income, gender and so on, therefore, can help you understand the variability of the networks. It presents the interviewees, firstly those individuals living in poverty, followed by the group selected from the middle class. For the middle class interviewees as a whole, the most effective way of obtaining jobs was through network contacts, though this ratio 50 per cent was lower than that for individuals living in poverty. The chapter defines the network indicators utilized and discusses the overall features of the analyzed networks. Then, it shows that attributes and networks alike reinforce the pattern of diversity within poverty highlighted earlier. Finally, it discusses the main associations between networks and socio-demographic attributes.
