How do individuals’ networks of personal relationships affect their social in‐ and exclusion? Researchers have shown that micro‐level, informal relationships can be highly consequential for social inclusion, but in complex, contradictory ways: Personal networks reflect the degree of relational exclusion and protect against (other forms of) exclusion, but they also erode in conditions of exclusion and reproduce exclusion. While network researchers have widely studied some of these mechanisms, they have yet to embrace others. Therefore, this thematic issue reconsiders the complex relationship between personal networks and social inclusion. It offers a unique vantage point by bringing together researchers who work with different marginalised social groups, typically studied separately: refugees, transnational migrants, indigenous people, older people, people experiencing poverty, LGBT people, and women who have experienced domestic violence. This combination allows us to detect commonalities and differences in network functioning across historically excluded groups. This editorial lays the theoretical groundwork for the thematic issue and discusses the key contributions of the seventeen articles that compose the issue. We call for more attention to relationship expectations, the reciprocity of support flows, and contextual embeddedness, and question universally adopted theoretical binaries such as that of bonding and bridging social capital.

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在好公司？人际关系、网络嵌入和社会包容

个人的人际关系网络如何影响他们的社会融入和排斥？研究人员表明，微观层面的非正式关系可能对社会包容产生重大影响，但其方式复杂而矛盾：个人网络反映了关系排斥的程度并防止（其他形式的）排斥，但它们也会在社会包容的条件下受到侵蚀。排斥和再生产排斥。虽然网络研究人员已经广泛研究了其中一些机制，但他们还没有接受其他机制。因此，本专题重新考虑了个人网络与社会包容之间的复杂关系。它通过汇集与不同边缘化社会群体合作的研究人员提供了一个独特的优势，这些群体通常是分开研究的：难民、跨国移民、土著人民、老年人、遭受贫困的人、LGBT人群和遭受家庭暴力的妇女。这种组合使我们能够检测历史上被排除在外的群体中网络功能的共性和差异。这篇社论为主题问题奠定了理论基础，并讨论了构成该问题的 17 篇文章的主要贡献。我们呼吁更多地关注关系期望、支持流的互惠和情境嵌入，并质疑普遍采用的理论二元论，例如结合和桥接社会资本。这篇社论为主题问题奠定了理论基础，并讨论了构成该问题的 17 篇文章的主要贡献。我们呼吁更多地关注关系期望、支持流的互惠和情境嵌入，并质疑普遍采用的理论二元论，例如结合和桥接社会资本。这篇社论为主题问题奠定了理论基础，并讨论了构成该问题的 17 篇文章的主要贡献。我们呼吁更多地关注关系期望、支持流的互惠和情境嵌入，并质疑普遍采用的理论二元论，例如结合和桥接社会资本。