However these elegant models can oversimplify the reality in some aspects. Quantitative and/or “variable-based approach” with a strong focus on associations between some variables – for example, association between local and global integration of a civic organization – has, nevertheless, some limitations. Dealing with individual actors and their attributes, this approach neglects the structure of relations in its complexity. Paraphrasing Granovetter’s critique, the variable-based approach tends to focus on an isolated actor and neglected complex effect(s) of social structure (Granovetter, 1985). In contrast, “relational sociology” (Crossley, 2011; Emirbayer, 1997) that suggested in the given paper, takes into account the structure of relations seriously[6]. Although the recent research that based on SNA (the key method of “relational sociology”) also suffers from stylized models that become increasingly popular (Mani & Moody, 2014), the network approach enables to account not only attributive but also structural characteristics.