[SOC3332] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (22 pages long!)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3332
• Professor: Ariel Fuenzalida

Document Summary

Networks: societies are networks of people that are linked by things like friendships, families, or professional ties, on a smaller scale, the brain is a network of neurons connected by axons and cells which themselves are networks too. On a larger scale, the ecosystem and the food chain are networks of species. We can look at these things and their relationships with the outside world. An example of a simple dyad would be a predator versus prey situation: the internet is the most obvious network. It contains nodes and connections (e. g. hyperlinks lead to web pages). Social network theory: social network theory is a relational theory its main concern is with the analysis of relations and connections. Relationality has its origins in the work of david hume who believed that relations are external to their terms which requires individuals to conceptualize them using different terms. The objects themselves do not possess the characteristics.