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The Other Ride of Paul Revere: Brokerage Role in the Making of the American Revolution. Shin-Kap Han. The Other Ride of Paul Revere: Brokerage Role in the Making of the American Revolution. Question Issues – Historical and Sociological Data – Membership Networks Findings
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The Other Ride of Paul Revere:Brokerage Rolein the Making of the American Revolution Shin-Kap Han
The Other Ride of Paul Revere:Brokerage Rolein the Making of the American Revolution • Question • Issues – Historical and Sociological • Data – Membership Networks • Findings • Summary and Conclusion
Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (1931) by Grant WoodMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Folklore vs.History (???) “an uncanny genius for being at the center of events” (Fischer 1994)
A Historiographical Blind Spot?A Sociological Black Box? What was his real importance? What was the nature of the role he played?
The Other Ride • Revere’s role in the mobilization process of the Revolutionary movement from a social structural perspective
The Other Ride • Revere’s role in the mobilization process of the Revolutionary movement from a social structural perspective • Spanned various social chasms and connected disparate organizational elements • A bridge par excellence across the “structural holes”
Issues:Brokerage • A process “by which intermediary actors facilitate transactions between other actors lacking access to or trust in one another” (Marsden 1982)
“Commissions” (Marsden) “Tertius Gaudens” (Burt) “Tariff” (Boissevain) His was pro bono. Issues: Incentives in Brokerage
“Commissions” (Marsden) “Tertius Gaudens” (Burt) “Tariff” (Boissevain) His was pro bono. Interest in keeping the holes from being closed up He filled the holes. Issues: Incentives in Brokerage
“Commissions” (Marsden) “Tertius Gaudens” (Burt) “Tariff” (Boissevain) His was pro bono. Interest in keeping the holes from being closed up He filled the holes. Issues: Incentives in Brokerage Competitive Setting Non-Competitive Setting
Issues:Brokerage and Mobilization • A process “by which intermediary actors facilitate transactions between other actors lacking access to or trust in one another” (Marsden 1982) • “bridge-and-cluster” structure • “weakly coupled” structure
Issues: Brokerage and Mobilization • Structural problems inherent in any large-scale mobilization process ― Mobilizing “men of all orders” • Levels – “multiorganizational fields” (i.e., networks of organizations) • Multiplexity – overlaps and intersections
Issues: Brokerage and Mobilization • Structural problems inherent in any large-scale mobilization process ― Mobilizing “men of all orders” • Levels – “multiorganizational fields” (i.e., networks of organizations) • Multiplexity – overlaps and intersections
Issues: Brokerage and Mobilization • Structural problems inherent in any large-scale mobilization process ― Mobilizing “men of all orders” • Levels – “multiorganizational fields” (i.e., networks of organizations) • Multiplexity – overlaps and intersections
Issues:Late 18th Century British American Colonies • Fault lines • “Tories, true blue, and the timid” • “The better sort and the lower sort” • Militia and crowd • Organizational infrastructure: Diffuse alliances In the middle of it all was Revere, as a communicator, coordinator, and organizer.
Issues:Late 18th Century British American Colonies • Fault lines • “Tories, true blue, and the timid” • “The better sort and the lower sort” • Militia and crowd • Organizational infrastructure: Diffuse alliances In the middle of it all was Revere, as a communicator, coordinator, and organizer.
Issues:Late 18th Century British American Colonies • Fault lines • “Tories, true blue, and the timid” • “The better sort and the lower sort” • Militia and crowd • Organizational infrastructure: Diffuse alliances In the middle of it all was Revere, as a communicator, coordinator, and organizer.
Data (1994. Oxford University Press)
2-Mode (Affiliation) Network Data Matrix Operations A (P-by-G) AT (G-by-P) A(AT) = P-by-P AT(A) = G-by-G
Findings, I Linkages Between Organizations and Their Members
Findings, II Revere’s Place
Network Structure of the Revolutionary Movement in Boston: All (Density = .725)
Network Structure of the Revolutionary Movement in Boston: All (Density = .725)
Network Structure of the Revolutionary Movement in Boston: W/O 2 (D = .500)
Findings, III Linkages Across Social Divides