Abeyances

, 47–48

Absence

, 25, 27, 33–34

Agency

, 9

Assimilation transitions

, 19

Attitudes

, 27–28

Average marginal effects (AMEs)

, 81

Beliefs

, 49

Bihari identity

, 47

Black Civil Rights Movement

, 50

Cancer

, 27

Centralization

, 48

Classic analysis of Polish peasants

, 16

Classic sociological traditions

, 27

Cognition

, 2, 52, 98

Cognitive dissonance

, 30–31

Cognitive processes

, 2

Cognitive Social Structures (CSS)

, 52

Cognitive–temporal approach

, 5–6

Collective memory

, 45–46

Community isolation

, 26

Computational sociology

, 91

coding

, 91

Conference

, 102–103

Conformity

, 66

Consensus

, 5

Continuity model

, 94

Continuity-preserving behavior

, 42–43

Conversation transitions

, 19

Cooley

, 14

Culture

, 49–50

art

, 3

of masculinity

, 78

meaning

, 17

movies

, 2–3

narratives

, 44

symbols

, 17–18

Death

, 25, 30–31

Deconstruction

, 28

Dewey

, 1–2, 9

Día de los Muertos ceremony

, 4

Diffusion. See also Mimicry

, 44–45

Direct physical interaction

, 28

Disjointed fluidity

, 51, 53, 93, 96, 105, 107

empirical research

, 100–101

existing paradigms or theories

, 96

foundations of

, 11

secondary conditions

, 104–105

SNA

, 101–102

Disjointedly fluid trajectories

, 14, 17, 45

Disjointedness of relationships

, 10–11

Durkheim

, 26

Emotions

, 27–28

Empathy

, 29

Entrepreneur

, 45

Environment

, 47

Ethnicity (or race or nationality)

, 71

Event

, 17

Extension

, 29, 32

External mechanisms of continuity

, 37–38, 44, 50

institutional/structural mechanism

, 38, 41

interactional/discursive mechanism

, 39, 42

material/symbolic type

, 37–39

Field observation

, 39

Flows

content flow

, 71–72

interpretive flow

, 71–72

primary flow

, 71–72

secondary flow

, 72

Fluidity of relationships

, 11–12

Friendship

, 90

Gender

, 77

Camaraderie

, 90

dalliances

, 83

discrimination

, 79–80

masculinity

, 89–90

queer (or heteronormativity)

, 89

sexual harassment

, 79, 83

women in science

, 89–90

in workplace

, 77–80

Ghost ties

, 52

Identity

, 14–15

Imagination

, 3

inflation

, 14–15

Information

, 28–29

Innovation

, 44–45

Institutional/structural mechanism

, 38, 41

Institutionalization

, 38

Intellectualism

, 4

Interaction

continuity

, 93

conversation

, 3

gaps

, 3

physical

, 14

Interactional/discursive mechanism

, 39, 42

Internal mechanisms of continuity

, 25, 27–28, 33

deconstruction

, 28

extension (or prospection)

, 29, 32

loss and absence

, 25, 27, 33–34

reconstruction

, 28–29

reflections

, 29–30

transitions

, 30

Interview

, 4, 89–90

Jokes (or humor)

, 79

Latency

, 46–47

Learning

, 18

Likelihood ratio test

, 83

Lived experience

, 15, 17

Logistic regression analysis

, 81

Loss

, 25, 27, 33–34

Loyalty

, 68–69

Lying

, 42

Management (or managers or managerial position)

, 45, 78

Marginalization

, 26

Marriage (or divorce)

, 37–38

Marx

, 25–26

Material objects

, 40

Material/symbolic type

, 37–39

Mead

, 97

Meaning-making

, 2

Measurement

qualitative approaches

, 51

quantitative approaches

, 51

validity and reliability

, 52

Memory

, 3

aggregation

, 69–70

fading

, 12–13

generalization

, 67–68

loss (or forgetting)

, 4

manipulation

, 40

vividness

, 39–40

Mental health

, 34

Mental models

, 52

Mental processing

, 11

Mental time travel

, 15

Mentorship

, 100

Mimesis

, 44–45

Mimicry

, 44–45

Movies

, 2–3

Narratives

, 46

Norms (or rules)

, 38, 88

Objects (or material things)

, 11, 39–40

One-way tie

, 100

Organizations

, 45

Passing and absorbing pixels

, 66–70

Photographs

, 39–40

Pictures

, 2–3

Pixels

aging (or merging)

, 69–70

modeling pixel clusters and intuitive timelines

, 61–66

passing and absorbing pixels

, 66–70

pixel properties

, 61–70

pixel trails

, 56–61

Pixels and flows

, 51, 53, 56, 95, 101

conceptual modeling

, 52–53

disjointed fluidity

, 51–53

practical uses of

, 73–74

theory development (or theory-building)

, 60

Polish peasants, classic analysis of

, 16

Power

, 18

Pragmatism

, 4, 18–19

Reconstruction

, 28–29

Relational sociologists

, 18–19

Relational sociology

, 2, 17–18

Relationalist operationalization of legitimacy

, 18

Relationships

, 1–2, 4, 96, 98

beginning/ending of a

, 12

categories

, 10–11

conceptualizing

, 2, 9

constituents

, 5, 22

construction process

, 3, 98–99

definitions

, 1–2, 4

events and cognitive outputs

, 9–10

evolution process

, 28

human relationships

, 11

key phenomenological traditions

, 13–16

as trajectories

, 12–13

transition

, 30

Religion (or God or spirituality or divinity)

, 34

Remembered and imagined events and cognitive outputs (RIECOs)

, 10, 43, 93

cognitive outputs

, 9–10

construction

, 23

embeddedness in time

, 15

Reputational entrepreneurs

, 45

Rituals

, 39

Role

compartmentalization

, 42

role-taking

, 29, 32

Schutz

, 5, 14–15

Secondary conditions

, 49, 104–105

Self-other

, 15, 97

Simmel

, 26

Social aggregations

, 95

Social capital

, 26

Social construction

conceptualization

, 5

construction process

, 99

messiness of

, 51

Social constructionism

, 5–6

Social constructs

, 99

Social identity distinctions

, 26

Social isolation

, 7, 26

Social movement

, 95

Social network analysis (SNA)

, 18–19, 51–52, 96, 101

affiliations

, 52

centrality (or popularity)

, 73–74

closeness (or tie strength)

, 61–62

cognitive social structures

, 52

ego perspective

, 103–104

ghost ties

, 52

homogeneity

, 48

latency

, 46–47

one-way tie

, 100

structural hole

, 26–27

Social network theory

, 2, 4, 9

Social structure

, 99

Socialization

, 78

Sociometric studies

, 53

Statistical analysis

, 53

Statistics

average marginal effects

, 81

hypothesis testing

, 59

logistic regression

, 77

statistical assumptions

, 51–52

Stories

, 2–3

Storytelling

, 95

Structuralist theory of power dependency

, 18

Symbolic interactionism

, 101–102

Taylor’s model

, 50

Time

, 52, 98

mental time travel

, 15

time-based extension

, 32

visualizing

, 62

Unifying

, 5

Universal

, 5

Universality (or unification)

, 5

Visualizations

, 95

systematic

, 60

timelines

, 61–66

Weber

, 17, 25–26

Work-life balance

, 90