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The topic of this week's class is characterizing a node's immediate environment. What kinds of nodes are they connected to? What are the consequences for them? How are their contacts connected to each other? Distinguishing selection and influence processes. Social capital.
This is the first week that we really focus on how network analysis informs social research.
Supplementary Readings (optional)
Borgatti. 1997. Structural holes: Unpacking Burt's redundancy measures.Connections 20(1) [html]
Burt, R. Measuring access to structural holes. [pdf]
Gould, R. & Fernandez, R. 1989. Structures of mediation: A formal approach to brokerage in transaction networks. Sociological Methodology. 19: 89-126. [^pdf]
Obstfeld, D., Borgatti, S., & Davis, J. 2014. Brokerage as a process: Decoupling third party action from social network structure. In Daniel J. Brass, Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca, Ajay Mehra, Daniel S. Halgin, and Stephen P. Borgatti (Eds.) Contemporary Perspectives on Organizational Social Networks. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Emerald Publishing: Bradford, UK. [pdf]
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11 local environment [pdf] 2020
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11 local social capital.pdf (2018)
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mgt780s20-localneighb [mp4] 2020
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