In the late 1960s students had a rather revolutionary life in universities. In the midst of all this, Mark Granovetter, a PhD student at Harvard University, set himself to figure out how people and their jobs. He interviewed about a hundred people and sent out another 200 questionnaires in the Boston area.
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Csermely, P. (2009). A Principle is Born: The Granovetter Study. In: Weak Links. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31157-7_1
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