Who's Who
This person tested “six degrees of separation” in a field experiment and found it convincing
Who is Milgram?
All exchanges in this type of network must go through one participant.
What is a star network?
The degree to which resources are evenly distributed and exchanges balanced.
What is network symmetry?
Reward or gratification to the recipients of the resources or products received.
What is value?
Anything that attracts people to join, participate in, and remain in a dyad, group, organization, or network.
What is cohesiveness?
Defined interpersonal networking as “finding fast whom you need to get what you need in any given situation and helping others do the same.”
Who is Mackay?
This network is dense, with all participants having direct access to each other.
What is a group network?
The number of actual relationships in the network, as compared with the possible number of relationships.
What is density?
Rewards, products, and resources traded and foregone in the exchange or the punishments incurred in order to obtain the desired resource.
What are costs?
Social arrangements of peoples, groups, organizations, or other social units that interact and engage in exchanges to achieve their purposes.
What are social networks?
Found less than half of the exchanges in a community service network were symmetrical
Who are Woodward and Doreion?
This network has a low density, less likelihood for cohesion and stability due to the isolation of some participants.
What is a chain network?
Balanced exchange relationships, with all sides dependent on the other and having mutual and reciprocal influence, creating countervailing power relationships.
What is interdependency?
Where the authority for creating, defining, and maintaining the network’s objectives and tasks resides, can be within or outside the network.
What is locus of authority?
These occur when network units recognize the domains or control of desired resources by other participating network units and trade domain recognitions and resources.
What are social exchanges?
Researched line-staff service coordination and found that they prefer service coordination through informal (personal) rather than formal networks.
Who is Healy?
Network units sharing the same geographic domains, having the same task environments, existing within the same community, and having a similar locus of decision making; more likely to be decentralized, informal, fluid, and-at times-competitive and market-like.
What is a horizontal network?
A characteristic of systems-management position to control interactions between segments.
What is entropy?
Concerned with exchanges of population and problem information, fiscal and material resources exchanges, and management and domain information exchanges.
What is management-level networking?
If this is too imbalanced, it will adversely affect network cohesion.
What is the superordinate-subordinate power relationship principle?
Hold that assessing, developing, and managing social networks and assisting clients in their assessment, development, and management of social networks is the crux of social work practice.
Who are Whittaker, Garbarino, and associates?
Network unit’s geographic domain and service or market area encompasses several communities and its locus of authority rests outside another network unit’s community.
What is a vertical network?
Composed of units with like characteristics creating social networks that are cohesive and stable.
What is homophily?
Exists when people in a network bring organizational resources and commitments beyond their personal resources to a network.
What is interorganizational networking?
When other network positions have to go through a network position and unit in order to communicate and reach others in the network.
What is centrality?