SOCIOL 4HH3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Mark Granovetter, Human Services, Ingratiation
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The job search iii: implications of social media. The job search strategies used by 2012 sociology graduates: 1. In terms of no ties, 56% used online methods, 16% used newspaper ads, 13% used employment agencies, and 5% used unsolicited resumes: c. the comparative effectiveness of the job search strategies, 1. Based on the data indicating the effectiveness of weak ties and the relative ineffectiveness of no ties, spelter-roth concluded that these findings suggests that sociology graduates appeared to overestimate the value of the impersonal job search : 3. Dramaturgical theory and use of linkedin: a. Linkedin accounts and they hoped to get 30 participants, but they got 24 instead: once they had the participants, they were asked to complete a questionnaire designed to take about 20 mins, 2. Key questions: the questionnaire gathered information that was demographic in nature this included sex, racial, or ethnic background, age, income, educational attainment, and professional background.