樊巖 蔡濟恭과 교류한 인물로 본 18세기 고위관료의 社會關係網

Abstract

This study aims to analyze and categorize people who had social exchanges throughout their lives in the 18th century Joseon, and to present a methodology to understand the social network of ruling class of the Joseon Dynasty. I extracted the people who Chae Jegong(蔡濟恭) had interacted with through the contents of his anthology, Beonamjip(樊巖集) and reviewed how he had a relationship with them. His social network was largely composed of ‘kinship’, ‘literary friends’, and ‘bureaucrats’. First, ‘relatives’ were the primary factors that formed social networks, and were very important relationships that formed the same identity in pre-modern times. Second, ‘literary friends’ was an element that formed an extended social network outside of ‘relatives’ as people who interacted in the private sector. Third, ‘bureaucrats’ were people who had exchanges in the public space of the government, including politically hostile people, but they often lived in Seoul, so there was less diversity in the region. Meanwhile, Chae’s predecessors in Beonamjip show his political or academic origins well. There were also a number of people with a significantly lower social class, including the middle class, common people, and monks. It can be expected that the horizon of social network analysis can be further expanded by expanding the subject of research to past people and lower classes. This study also focused on how political color and residence influenced social network. In the private sphere, Chae mainly interacted with the politically and geographically homogeneous class, but he was also interacting with Yeongnam(嶺南) scholars, which shared academic origins. In the public sphere, there was a clear tendency to interact with people of various political colors, but it was characterized by being limited to the capital on a regional basis.