Persistent social and economic discrimination has produced a social environment that has produced space for the existence of many different family structures, of which, single households remain the highest within the African American community.

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Augustana College (IL)

Weak ties are part of an individual’s extended network where the frequency and intimacy of interaction tend to be less than those of strong ties. As such they have a unique function to serve as “bridges” to other actors and networks outside of an individual’s own network, and consequentially, access and flow of information diffuses more quickly and efficiently.  For instance, these ties are characterized on the level of acquaintance than that of something like a friend.

Weak Ties

A bridge is a line in a network which provides the only path between two points.  While not all weak ties necessarily serve as bridges, only weak ties can serve as bridges because they are the singular line that links an actor from one group to another actor and their group.  Bridges are the first step of full integration between two groups which is a condition where all actors between a given number of networks are strongly tied together. The shorter the connection between bridges, the more feasible it becomes for one node in a network to associate with a node in another network. 

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