SOCL 2001 : Notes For Exam 2
Document Summary
Networks and exchange: not what you know, but who you know, how you know them (and what you do with that, you have to make bets on how most people would behave in a certain situation. What is social network: a set of actors and their relationships, micro, meso, macro. Exercise: who are the people most important to you, including work and home, and any other contacts you feel are important. Actor-centered graph: draw ties between them, interlocking versus radial networks, radial network is one in which there are distinct segments, separate groups that don"t know one another, interlocking network- different groups, but they all know each other. Network interactions: face to face ( co-present or f2f, via new media, information and communication technologies (icts, facebook is not a social network, but a networking interface, platform for interacting, awareness, and meeting. Basic social resources: physical attributes, attractiveness has a value.
