What social ties are and how they operate depends on the cultural context constitutive of their meaning. Pursuing an explanatory account for the cultural embeddedness of social ties, we draw on Verstehende sociology and rely on in-depth insight into subjective perceptions developed by social network actors throughout their practice to represent symbolic and material contexts of social ties structurally. We put forward a new mixed data collection and processing approach that ethnographically maps interconnected three-layer socio-cultural networks of individuals, signs, and material objects. Opening cultural contexts to application of formal and statistical techniques, this approach allows for an 'interpretive explanation' of social ties. Illustrating the approach with our own longitudinal study of five European art groups, we discuss the peculiarities of three-layer socio-cultural data collection and processing, the new discoveries enabled, the challenges encountered, the solutions we came up with, and the utility of this approach for conducting 'Verstehende network analysis' in various fields of application.

什么是社会纽带以及它们如何运作取决于其含义的文化背景构成。在解释社会联系的文化内在性之后，我们借鉴了Verstehende社会学，并依靠对社交网络参与者在整个实践过程中所形成的主观感知的深入了解，来从结构上代表社会联系的象征性和物质性背景。我们提出了一种新的混合数据收集和处理方法，该方法在人种学上映射了由个人，标志和物质对象组成的相互连接的三层社会文化网络。通过开放文化背景来应用形式和统计技术，这种方法可以对社会纽带进行“解释性解释”。通过对五个欧洲艺术团体的纵向研究来说明这种方法，我们讨论了三层社会文化数据收集和处理的特殊性，新发现的实现，遇到的挑战以及我们提出的解决方案，“ Verstehende网络分析”在各个领域的应用。