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Comparaison de deux méthodes différentes pour mesurer les réseaux personnels. Cet article compare deux outils différents pour analyser des réseaux personnels: le FNG (générateur libre de nom) avec lequel chaque répondant liste librement des noms de personnes avec lesquelles il interagit le plus souvent, et le GNG (générateur guidée de nom) avec lequel le répondant liste des noms de personnes avec lesquelles il interagit par rapport à une liste normalisée de 20 types d’échange. Les deux techniques sont testées ensemble avec un questionnaire intégré, et des données de 37 réseaux personnels sont analysées, un plan d’échantillonnage factoriel typologique est discuté, et une procédure standard est proposée et testée.

This article compares two different tools for analyzing personal networks: the FNG (free name generator) by which respondents freely list the names of people with whom they more often interact, and the GNG (guided name generator) by which respondents list the names of people with whom they more often interact, following a standardized 20-item list of types of exchange. The two techniques are tested together in an integrated questionnaire, the data of 37 personal networks are analyzed, a typological-factorial sampling design is discussed, and a standard procedure is suggested and tested.

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générateurs de noms méthodes quantitatives méthodologie comparative Réseaux personnels

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Two Different Methods for Measuring Personal Networks Compared

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