For commoners, the frequency of interaction among the members of an inner circle was considerably more likely to correlate to high overall density.
This cluster of individuals - contacts 1, 2, and 3 - are ego's inner circle.
As a member of the composer's inner circle, he would have mixed with other musicians and had the opportunity to discuss interpretative issues with them.
The model acknowledges that change occurs more often in peripheral relationships than in the inner circle of close relationships.
The dialogue makes bureaucratic officials open to public scrutiny and makes elected officials subject to pressures from outside the inner circle of political elites.
These sacred elements of the inner circle were joined together by periodically held ritual processions, and were thus moulded into a coherent whole.
This meant that half of the people in the inner circle had direct relations with each other.
The role of court activity in revealing and probably establishing inner circle size is clear.
