Network theory: basic principles (1)
'Dot' that represents a person/organization
What is vertice/node?
Connection between two nodes/vertices
What is edge/tie?
A problem that refers to which people/network members are relevant to include in your study
What is boundary specification?
The focus of the sociology of knowledge according to Berger and Luckman.
What is the social construction of reality?
What is isolate?
Phenomenon of a friend of a friend becoming your friend; created by, for instance, strong ties.
What is transivity?
Involves selecting your network based on particular properties of the relations that people have.
What is relation-based boundary specification?
The process by which all human conduct becomes habitualized conduct. Doing things the same way repeatedly without having to think much about it, which is often the most efficient way of doing something.
What is habitualization?
The second bias.
What is the field dynamics of the academic world?
Birds of a feather flock together.
What is homophily?
Ties that you have to other people and what these ties have to offer you.
What is social capital?
Involves selecting your research population based on a shared event.
What is event-based boundary specification?
Occurs when two or more people share general knowledge/reciprocal typification about habitualized action.
What is institutionalisation?
The first bias.
What is social factors?
Source of novel information; bridges between clusters.
What is weak ties?
Network clusters that your friends/acquaintances do not have provides an advantage for obtaining novel information.
What is strength of weak ties?
Involves selecting people who are members of the same organisational structure.
What is position-based boundary specification?
The theoretical argument made by Berger and Luckmann about how two people meet and start the beginnings of a new institution by learning each other's routines and roles.
What is externalisation and objectification?
The third bias.
What is intellectualist bias?
Theories concerned primarily with describing the mathematical form of social networks.
What is formalist network theories?
Theories concerned with how patterns of relations can shed light on substantive topics within their disciplines.
What is structuralist network theories?
Social, interactional, and flow.
What is types of relations?
Process that occurs in the early phases of a child's socialisation - related to institutions becoming a reality external to the individual.
What is internalisation?