“Interactions refer to behaviour-based ties such as speaking with, helping, or inviting into one’s home. Interactions usually occur in the context of social relations, and interaction-based and affective-based measures are frequently used as proxies for one another.”

References

Marin, A., and Wellman, B. 2010. “Social Network Analysis: An Introduction,” in Handbook of Social Network Analysis, eds. P. Carrington and J. Scott (London: Sage). https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107415324.004