Social Influence Network Theory A Sociological Examination of Small Group Dynamics Structural Analys

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From: A. Wendall

Related topics : social network theory sociology

Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek | Ebook

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An extensively revised and expanded second edition of the successful textbook on social network analysis integrating theory, applications and network analysis using Pajek. The main structural concepts and their applications in social research are introduced with exercises. Pajek software and data sets are available so readers can learn network analysis through application and case studies. Readers will have the knowledge, skill and tools to...

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From: Haywood Coyne

Related topics : exploratory social network analysis with pajek / structure of social networks / social networking visualization software / social networking research

Bruno Latour - Panopticon/Oligopticon: A Sociological Vision of Paris, the Invisible City

Lecture date: 1999-02-22

Deploying material based on his book Paris: Ville Invisible Bruno Latour presents some of the results of the social theory known as 'sociology of translation' (actor network theory). After field studies in Africa and California, Latour specialized in the analysis of scientists and engineers at work. In addition to work in philosophy, history, sociology and anthropology of science, he has collaborated into many studies in science policy and research management.

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From: AA School of Architecture

Related topics : social network theory sociology

Social Network Ideas, Individual Level Data

This brief video contrasts the rich social network theory in Ross and Wu's 1995 American Sociological Review article, "The Links between Education and Health." Ross and Wu do a stellar job of expanding thinking about health beyond the biologically-centered focus on the physical body, adding social dimensions related to job quality, control over one's life, and social support. In that last dimension, however, Ross and Wu describe ideas about embeddedness in a network, while actually measuring...

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From: James Cook

Related topics : social network measures

SOC 101: Crime and Deviance as Sociological Phenomena

In this lecture video for UMA (http://uma.edu), we dip briefly into the oddity of Earnest Hooton and his bioracial theories of crime before considering the alternative: that deviance and crime are affected strongly by social context. What that social context might be depends on the vantage point you bring to sociology as a functionalist, conflict theorist, symbolic interactionist or social network analysts. After a review of theories from each of these sociological paradigms, we consider a...

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From: James Cook

Related topics : social network theory sociology

Thinking About Paradigms in Sociology

This video, produced for the Social Science program of the University of Maine a Augusta, introduces students first to the notion of what a paradigm is and how it relates to theory by using an analogy. If a theory is a particular kind of story, a paradigm is a way of building a story, and sociology as an academic discipline has paradigms for its stories just as music and literature and film have paradigms for the creating of works that fit within a particular genre. This video shares the...

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From: James Cook

Related topics : university social network analysis

2013 Everett M. Rogers Award Colloquium

Stanford Professor of Sociology Mark Granovetter is the recipient of the 2013 Everett M. Rogers Award.

Cited over 24,000 times, Granovetter's 1973 paper "The Strength of Weak Ties" is a social science classic and a milestone in network theory. Our close friends are strongly in touch with us and each other, he wrote, but our acquaintances -- weak ties -- are crucial bridges to other densely knit clumps of close friends. The more weak ties we have, the more in touch we are with ideas, fashions,...

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From: USC Annenberg

Related topics : social network analysis theory / analysis of social networking

BIF 7: Valdis Krebs: Getting Technology and Sociology to Match

Valdis Krebs: Getting Technology and Sociology to Match

Valdis Krebs sees something brighter on the social media horizon. Krebs calls social networking websites "the landline of technology," and declares that they will soon wear out their usefulness. He has nothing against social networking websites. In fact, Krebs has been on twitter longer than 95.8 percent of all twitter users. Be intrigued by his theories while watching him map the BIF-7 community.

ABOUT VALDIS KREBS

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From: Business Innovation Factory

Related topics : inflow social network analysis software / social media networking websites / analysis social networks / social networking community / social networking research