SOC355H1 Lecture Notes - Homophily
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Health is also affected by our social support. Contagion is when things pass from one person to another. First contact contagion - you come into contact with a person that gas a conta- gious disease and you catch it the first time. Epidemic, the point where it suddenly accelerates. On average the spreading of diseases increases exponentially. The pattern of spreading focus on network"s structure rather than content. As soon as disease enters, everyone will have it. There are alot of different paths for disease to transmit to one single node inverse core model. Have a lot of sex but never with each other. Having sex with people not in the network. Does not stop spreading in each cluster but will stop it from spreading to another cluster. Isolating any node would help to stop the spread to a particular cluster of peo- ple. which kind of network matters for the problem of contagion? the schools have whole networks.
