Social relations and their influence on various phenomena are one of the key issue not only in sociology. The crucial problem, however, is how to measure the social relations and their implication in society.
I try to adopt a physical perspective to the typical sociological analysis and to measure the qualitative nature of human community adopting the category of social distance. This category is used to explore the properties of social relations in the structure and the communication system of prison community. The issues that will be discussed:
-The specific properties of social relations as the constitutive factors for different type of group structure and type of communication.
-How the elementary social networks [short-range group structures] form the dynamics of prison community?
-What is the role of the numerical force of the group for prison community?
- The interplay between the microstructures and macrostructures?
The communication structure: how the social forces shape the communication.