Social Networks and Health

Friday, 11 July 2025: 11:00-12:45
Location: FSE030 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
RC15 Sociology of Health (host committee)

Language: English

Traced back to the very beginning of sociology as a discipline, the social network perspective has empowered researchers to identify various network-based concepts and to theorize and analyze their relationships with diverse health outcomes. The purpose of this proposed session is to critically celebrate and reflect on the long research tradition on social networks and health. It will bring together innovative and cutting-edge research papers on how social networks are associated with health. It will help scholars share up-to-date knowledge, discuss the contributions and limitations of the existing literature, and identify crucial new research directions.
Session Organizer:
Lijun SONG, Vanderbilt University, USA
Oral Presentations
The Role of Egocentric and Contextual Social Connectivity for Protecting Health during Crises: A Longitudinal Analysis through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic
James LAURENCE, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
The Critical Role of Social Networks in Fueling Vaccine Hesitancy during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Javier ALVAREZ-GALVEZ, University of Cadiz, Spain; Maribel SERRANO-MACIAS, University of Cadiz, Spain; Maria CAMACHO-GARCIA, University of Cadiz, Spain
Vaccination Homophily in Ego Contact Networks during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ádám STEFKOVICS, Hungary; Anna Sára LIGETI, HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Hungary; Fruzsina ALBERT, HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Hungary; Bea DÁVID; Julia KOLTAI, Institute for Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
A Network-Grounded Approach: Reconstructing the Complete Network of Healthy Lifestyles in an Italian Community
Simone SARTI, University of Milan, Italy; Marco TERRANEO, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy; David CONSOLAZIO, University of Milan, Italy
‘I’m Trusting You with My Entire Life’: Networked Pathways to Abortion Care Access
Claire DECOTEAU, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Integrated or Isolated? Social Networks and Health Among Older Never-Married Adults
Lijun SONG, Vanderbilt University, USA; Zhe ZHANG, Sichuan University, USA
Friendship Network Segregation and Psychological Well-Being Among Migration Children in China
LEI JIN, CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, Hong Kong; Lin TAO, China
Exploring the Relationship between Multidimensional Health and Mortality Among Korean Older Adults: Evidence from the Korean Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (KSHAP)
Rira SONG, Chung-Ang University, South Korea; Yoosik YOUM, Yonsei University, South Korea; Kiho SUNG, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea
Lonely By Comparison: Individual, Network, and Regional Occupational Status and Loneliness across 30 Countries
Pildoo SUNG, Hanyang University, South Korea; Wookje SUNG, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong; Harris Hyun-soo KIM, Ewha Womans University, South Korea
Individual Social Capital and Health: Empirical Cross-National Evidence of the Role of Income Inequality in 30 Societies
Marlène SAPIN, FORS Lausanne, Switzerland; Christof WOLF, President at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany
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