SOCIOL 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Stanley Milgram, Structural Holes, General Social Survey
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Distributions: structural holes: focuses on a lack of connections, ronald burt calls the situation in which ego connects individuals who without the presence of. Ego would have no connection with one another, a (cid:862)st(cid:396)u(cid:272)tu(cid:396)al hole. (cid:863) In the structural hole diagram, ego has high betweenness centrality. Substantive implications of centrality: results of experiment with networks of various shapes, (cid:862)(cid:449)he(cid:396)e (cid:272)e(cid:374)t(cid:396)alit(cid:455) a(cid:374)d he(cid:374)(cid:272)e, i(cid:374)depe(cid:374)de(cid:374)(cid:272)e a(cid:396)e e(cid:448)e(cid:374)l(cid:455) dist(cid:396)i(cid:271)uted, (cid:862)the(cid:396)e (cid:449)ill (cid:271)e (cid:374)o leader, (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) e(cid:396)(cid:396)o(cid:396)s, high a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)it(cid:455), slo(cid:449) o(cid:396)ga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374), a(cid:374)d high satisfa(cid:272)tio(cid:374)(cid:863) (cid:894)lea(cid:448)itt. In graph theory, this is called a neighborhood. If the first-order zone is large, then many friends of friends can be reached (one of the principles of facebook): reach or connectedness (the famous six degrees of separation) was studied by milgram in his small world experiments. We have not been able to collect large-scale network data covering whole cities or communities.
