Abstract
In her classic study, Family and Social Network, Bott (1971) argued that the connectedness of a married person's social network was negatively related to his/her marital integration. Using a sample of 686 married Irish women in Cork City this hypothesis was tested, and the results of a multivariate regression analysis revealed that neither network connectedness nor the strength of the respondent's emotional ties to the network had any explanatory power. The two variables that accounted for most of the 29 percent explained variance were the number of wife's network members shared by her husband and SES. A reconceptualization of the Bott hypothesis incorporating these findings, with networks seen as compensatory rather than mediating mechanisms, is oftered.
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