3. On the costs of conceptualizing social ties as
... all those social relations and norms held to contribute to Sc. In the absence of such a unified metric it is difficult to see how we can meaningfully assign actors or collective entities with a total score, an overall stock, of Sc. In addressing this point we encounter a fundamental contrast between ...
... all those social relations and norms held to contribute to Sc. In the absence of such a unified metric it is difficult to see how we can meaningfully assign actors or collective entities with a total score, an overall stock, of Sc. In addressing this point we encounter a fundamental contrast between ...
Social Digital Discourse: New Challenges for Corpus
... keep diaries, send photos, and listen to music. Renren is often referred to as the "Chinese Facebook". It also has a variety of functions with its own characteristics and, similar to Google, it changes the web page's design on special days, like Spring Festival or National Day. These particular circ ...
... keep diaries, send photos, and listen to music. Renren is often referred to as the "Chinese Facebook". It also has a variety of functions with its own characteristics and, similar to Google, it changes the web page's design on special days, like Spring Festival or National Day. These particular circ ...
Dialogicality and Social Representations
... that in general, they foreground stability as a theoretical concept. However, change is not treated in the same manner. It is worth considering some examples in social psychology. Theories of social perception are based on the idea that humans, in their desire to control and predict the world in whi ...
... that in general, they foreground stability as a theoretical concept. However, change is not treated in the same manner. It is worth considering some examples in social psychology. Theories of social perception are based on the idea that humans, in their desire to control and predict the world in whi ...
1 UNDERSTANDING THE INFLUENCE OF INTERPERSONAL
... character of strong ties between network actors. Specifically, strong ties harbour higher levels of trust among actors making relationships more effective (Tsai and Ghoshal, 1998; Andrews and Delahaye, 2000). Additionally, Inkpen and Tsang (2005) believe that as trust develops over time, opportuniti ...
... character of strong ties between network actors. Specifically, strong ties harbour higher levels of trust among actors making relationships more effective (Tsai and Ghoshal, 1998; Andrews and Delahaye, 2000). Additionally, Inkpen and Tsang (2005) believe that as trust develops over time, opportuniti ...
Social networking for zebras.
... organize themselves into stable "harems," with a single stallion keeping watch over a group of mares and babies. The Grevy's zebra, on the other hand, has a "fission-fusion society," with groups that form and dissolve. ...
... organize themselves into stable "harems," with a single stallion keeping watch over a group of mares and babies. The Grevy's zebra, on the other hand, has a "fission-fusion society," with groups that form and dissolve. ...
Bring in the social context: Towards an integrated
... The demand for evidence-based practice brings increased attention to the macro-social level because it plays a key role in bridging the science practice gap [3,5,6]. Our success in generalizing research findings reported in scientific journals to particular social settings, groups or populations dep ...
... The demand for evidence-based practice brings increased attention to the macro-social level because it plays a key role in bridging the science practice gap [3,5,6]. Our success in generalizing research findings reported in scientific journals to particular social settings, groups or populations dep ...
The Influence of Social Norms in Consumer Behavior
... decide what is appropriate and social norms thus profoundly influence their preferences and behavior (Cialdini, Reno, and Kallgren 1990). How much to drink at a party, whether to subscribe to a fitness club and how much to eat are all decisions that are at least partly guided by social norms. Althou ...
... decide what is appropriate and social norms thus profoundly influence their preferences and behavior (Cialdini, Reno, and Kallgren 1990). How much to drink at a party, whether to subscribe to a fitness club and how much to eat are all decisions that are at least partly guided by social norms. Althou ...
Manifesto for a Relational Sociology
... posit not individuals but self-subsistent “societies,” “structures,” or “social systems” as the exclusive sources of action. Proponents of these approaches, from neofunctionalists and systems theorists to many historicalcomparative analysts, all too often fall back upon the assumption that it is dur ...
... posit not individuals but self-subsistent “societies,” “structures,” or “social systems” as the exclusive sources of action. Proponents of these approaches, from neofunctionalists and systems theorists to many historicalcomparative analysts, all too often fall back upon the assumption that it is dur ...
Constructing Narratives from Georeferenced Photographs through
... With the development and popularisation of the Web 2.0, we are experiencing a new era where content is partly produced by users or ‘(prod)users’ (Bruns, 2007). This is labelled as User-Generated Content (UGC) and, in geography, often as Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) (Goodchild, 2007). Oth ...
... With the development and popularisation of the Web 2.0, we are experiencing a new era where content is partly produced by users or ‘(prod)users’ (Bruns, 2007). This is labelled as User-Generated Content (UGC) and, in geography, often as Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) (Goodchild, 2007). Oth ...
Current and Future Challenges in Mining Large Networks
... problems become challenging and interesting with the following realistic assumptions: i) the network is not available to us in its entirety – we can only query a node and obtain all its neighbors, ii) these queries are expensive, and thus an algorithm has to make a small number of queries, and iii) ...
... problems become challenging and interesting with the following realistic assumptions: i) the network is not available to us in its entirety – we can only query a node and obtain all its neighbors, ii) these queries are expensive, and thus an algorithm has to make a small number of queries, and iii) ...
Behavioral Effects in Individual Decisions of Network Formation
... In order to test our hypotheses, we confront participants in the lab with multiple static, noninteractive network situations in which they can choose to create or delete one link or to do nothing. Such a network situation constitutes the simplest network linking decision context, which allows us to ...
... In order to test our hypotheses, we confront participants in the lab with multiple static, noninteractive network situations in which they can choose to create or delete one link or to do nothing. Such a network situation constitutes the simplest network linking decision context, which allows us to ...
VISUALIZING VERY LARGE-SCALE CONVERSATIONS Warren Sack
... “themes” of the conversation. (I put “themes” in quotes because, according to the terms of linguistics, what is being calculated by the system is – strictly speaking – not the themes, but the lexical ties between messages; a necessary, but not sufficient, step in the determination of the themes of d ...
... “themes” of the conversation. (I put “themes” in quotes because, according to the terms of linguistics, what is being calculated by the system is – strictly speaking – not the themes, but the lexical ties between messages; a necessary, but not sufficient, step in the determination of the themes of d ...
Detecting community structure in networks
... process is repeated, with the restriction that any vertex that has previously been swapped is never swapped again. When all vertices in one of the groups have been swapped once, this stage of the algorithm ends. In the second stage, we go back over the sequence of swaps that were made and find the p ...
... process is repeated, with the restriction that any vertex that has previously been swapped is never swapped again. When all vertices in one of the groups have been swapped once, this stage of the algorithm ends. In the second stage, we go back over the sequence of swaps that were made and find the p ...
The Connected Customer: The Changing Nature of Consumer and
... definition of best value, as consumers now have access to aggregated information, for example, about the customer satisfaction levels with different retailers. The relationship between a retailer’s customer satisfaction score and its ability to charge a price premium is but one important research qu ...
... definition of best value, as consumers now have access to aggregated information, for example, about the customer satisfaction levels with different retailers. The relationship between a retailer’s customer satisfaction score and its ability to charge a price premium is but one important research qu ...
an ontology for the ethnographic analysis of social processes
... fundamental capacity of human reflexivity is the effect of the internalization of communications with other human beings. The third case is Wittgenstein’s (1984) argument that human beings cannot follow a rule individually, that rule-following is instead always the result of interactions within a lar ...
... fundamental capacity of human reflexivity is the effect of the internalization of communications with other human beings. The third case is Wittgenstein’s (1984) argument that human beings cannot follow a rule individually, that rule-following is instead always the result of interactions within a lar ...
Social Problems Research
... – Field research involves observing social behavior in settings in which it occurs naturally. – In participant observation the researcher participates in the phenomenon being studied to obtain an insider’s perspective. – In nonparticipant observation the researcher observes the phenomenon being stud ...
... – Field research involves observing social behavior in settings in which it occurs naturally. – In participant observation the researcher participates in the phenomenon being studied to obtain an insider’s perspective. – In nonparticipant observation the researcher observes the phenomenon being stud ...
Machine Learning Algorithms for Packet Routing in
... algorithm, each node maintains a Q-table for estimating the average packet delivery time via its neighbors to all destinations. These delivery time estimates are incrementally updated based on local information of neighboring nodes. Each node routes the packet to the neighbor with the minimum estima ...
... algorithm, each node maintains a Q-table for estimating the average packet delivery time via its neighbors to all destinations. These delivery time estimates are incrementally updated based on local information of neighboring nodes. Each node routes the packet to the neighbor with the minimum estima ...
Paper Complexity, mobility, migration
... social and cultural worlds (Arnaut 2012). While the first force – new migrations – caused a rapid escalation of demographic diversity in centers all over the world, the second force – ICT – has shaped new environments for communication and identity development wherever it is used. The combination of ...
... social and cultural worlds (Arnaut 2012). While the first force – new migrations – caused a rapid escalation of demographic diversity in centers all over the world, the second force – ICT – has shaped new environments for communication and identity development wherever it is used. The combination of ...
Graphs in machine learning: an introduction
... degree remains bounded when N increases and the network density, defined as the ratio between the number of existing edges over the number of potential edges, tends to zero. Second, while some vertices of a real network can have few connections or no connection at all with the other vertices, most v ...
... degree remains bounded when N increases and the network density, defined as the ratio between the number of existing edges over the number of potential edges, tends to zero. Second, while some vertices of a real network can have few connections or no connection at all with the other vertices, most v ...
LA BioMed Launches Study of MDMA-Assisted Therapy for Social
... for Social Anxiety in Autistic Adults MAPS Initiates Research Seeking to Enhance Functional Skills LOS ANGELES – (March 27, 2014) – Seeking new therapies for the treatment of social anxiety in autistic adults, researchers at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed) announced today t ...
... for Social Anxiety in Autistic Adults MAPS Initiates Research Seeking to Enhance Functional Skills LOS ANGELES – (March 27, 2014) – Seeking new therapies for the treatment of social anxiety in autistic adults, researchers at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed) announced today t ...
Norms and Sociolinguistic Description1
... Labov (1966: 412) explicitly states that the subjective reaction tests3 used in the New York study were only designed to reveal the dimension of social status, one of the many possible evaluative dimensions. Apart from recent years the other evaluative dimensions have received limited amount of atte ...
... Labov (1966: 412) explicitly states that the subjective reaction tests3 used in the New York study were only designed to reveal the dimension of social status, one of the many possible evaluative dimensions. Apart from recent years the other evaluative dimensions have received limited amount of atte ...
читать статью - Вестник Омского университета. Серия Экономика
... specific types of relations, such as financial exchange, friendship, passion, trade, web links, airline routes, hobbies, etc.” (Yang, Kim & Dhalwani, 2008). In other words, they reflect specific relationships among the members of one or more families, communities or organizations (Urban, 2011). Soci ...
... specific types of relations, such as financial exchange, friendship, passion, trade, web links, airline routes, hobbies, etc.” (Yang, Kim & Dhalwani, 2008). In other words, they reflect specific relationships among the members of one or more families, communities or organizations (Urban, 2011). Soci ...
Marginalization - Dufour
... organizations in France, and as such, it was directly concerned with the question of transnationalization from the beginning, even if the relationships between the two networks are not always easy. In that view, the dynamism of marginalized people’s movements in the 1990s and 2000s is embedded in th ...
... organizations in France, and as such, it was directly concerned with the question of transnationalization from the beginning, even if the relationships between the two networks are not always easy. In that view, the dynamism of marginalized people’s movements in the 1990s and 2000s is embedded in th ...
Turkish Nomads - Eclectic Anthropology Server
... marriage ties turn out to be the major means of connecting various segments within the clan and between clans. Thus, the women are found to be active agents of network development. Societies with circumnavigable strong-tie networks are very different from European societies in which it is only the c ...
... marriage ties turn out to be the major means of connecting various segments within the clan and between clans. Thus, the women are found to be active agents of network development. Societies with circumnavigable strong-tie networks are very different from European societies in which it is only the c ...
PowerPoint Presentation - Topics in the Philosophy of Social Science
... Much of this comes down to a view about what we can know, or can know best: the local, the direct, the unmediated. So there is an underlying positivism to the insistence on the local. Another strong impulse towards the local comes from a perception that variation and novelty are more significant ...
... Much of this comes down to a view about what we can know, or can know best: the local, the direct, the unmediated. So there is an underlying positivism to the insistence on the local. Another strong impulse towards the local comes from a perception that variation and novelty are more significant ...