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- Parution: n° 168, Winter 2004, special issue: Social networks
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| Title | Foreword. Special issue: "The social networks" |
| Author | DEGENNE Alain |
| Keywords | None |
| Topics | Modelling, Networks, Social Sciences |
| Abstract | Foreword to the special issue on "The social networks" |
| Number | 168, Winter 2004, special issue: Social networks |
| Language | French |
| Title | Building models for social space: neighourhood-based models for social networks and affiliation structures |
| Author | PATTISON Philippa, ROBINS Garry |
| Keywords | Affiliation, Dynamic, Neighbourhood, Random graph, Social space |
| Topics | Graphs, Modelling, Networks, Probabilities, Process, Social Sciences, Stochastic Processes |
| Abstract | We propose a quantitative relational framework for social space. We suggest that social space cannot be specified simply in geographical, network or sociocultural terms but, rather, requires an understanding of the interdependence of relationships among different types of social entities, such as persons, groups, sociocultural resources and places. We also suggest that social space cannot be regarded as fixed: unlike the Euclidean space of Newtonian mechanics, social space is constructed, at least in part, by the social processes that it supports. In the general stochastic relational framework that we propose, relationships among social entities are regarded as the fundamental elements of social space and observed relational entities are viewed as the outcome of processes that occur in overlapping local relational neighbourhoods. Each neighbourhood corresponds to a subset of possible relational entities and is conceived as a possible site of social interaction. We show how special cases of this framework yield hierarchies of models for social networks and for affiliation structures. We also sketch some next steps in the development of this framework. |
| Number | 168, Winter 2004, special issue: Social networks |
| Language |  English |
| Title | Explained Variation in dynamic network models |
| Author | SNIJDERS Tom A. B. |
| Keywords | Coefficient of determination, Cohort analysis, Complete network, Dynamic, Entropy, Explained variation |
| Topics | Entropy, Networks, Social Sciences, Stochastic Processes |
| Abstract | A measure for explained variation is proposed for stochastic actor-driven models for data on social networks. The measure is based on the entropy of the distribution of the choices made by the actors during the network evolution process. This measure can be helpful in the specification and interpretation of statistical models for longitudinal network data. |
| Number | 168, Winter 2004, special issue: Social networks |
| Language | English |
| Title | Social influence and diffusion of innovation |
| Author | STEYER Alexandre, ZIMMERMANN Jean-Benoit |
| Keywords | Diffusion, Diffusion curve, Innovation, Learning, Networks, Power law, Social influence, Structure |
| Topics | Diffusion, Dynamical Systems, Networks, Social Sciences |
| Abstract | The notion of diffusion holds a central place in any social system, because it is at the heart of individuals behaviour or representation phasing, hence of the co-ordination of their actions. The idea at the origin of the notion of diffusion is that inter-individual interactions are the driving forces of the evolution of individuals' behaviours, beliefs and represen-tations. Our approach in this paper is based on social influence networks. Agents are embedded in network structures where the influence advance depends on cumulative effects. First we draw the foundations of a diffusion model based on social influence networks. Then we study the way of propagation of influence trough "avalanches" giving a central importance to the network topology. We consider the noise produced by those avalanches as a characteristic of the social structure that can contribute, by learning effect, to transform the network structure, hence the dynamics of the diffusion. We then explain why peculiar "critical" diffusion curves do emerge characterized by a power law instead of the exponential form of traditional diffusion curves. |
| Number | 168, Winter 2004, special issue: Social networks |
| Language | French |
| Title | Ring cohesion theory in marriage and social networks |
| Author | WHITE Douglas R. |
| Keywords | Family relinking, Kinship network, Social cohesion, Structural endogamy |
| Topics | Anthropology - Ethnology, Modelling, Networks |
| Abstract | Ring cohesion, as a theory relevant to social cohesion, offers itself in the analysis of matrimonial relinking as an outgrowth of a structural approach: "Structural studies are, in the social sciences, the indirect outcome of modern developments in mathematics which have given increasing importance to the qualitative point of view in contradistinction to the quantitative point of view of traditional mathematics. It has become possible, therefore, in fields such as mathematical logic, set theory, group theory, and topology, to develop a rigorous approach to problems which do not admit of a metrical solution. The outstanding achievements in this connection Ð which offer themselves as springboards not yet utilized by social scientist - is to be found in J. von Neumann and O. Morgenstern, Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour; N. Wiener, Cybernetics; and C. Shannon and W. Weaver, The Mathematical Theory of Communication". [Lévi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, 1963, Chapter XV, Social Structure, section on "Structure and Measure", p. 283]. |
| Number | 168, Winter 2004, special issue: Social networks |
| Language | English |
| Title | Matrimonial ring structures |
| Author | HAMBERGER Klaus, HOUSEMAN Michael, DAILLANT Isabelle, WHITE Douglas R., BARRY Laurent |
| Keywords | Enumeration theory, Graph theory, Kinship network, Matrimonial rings, Social anthropology, Social network analysis |
| Topics | Anthropology - Ethnology, Demography, Graphs, Networks, Sociology |
| Abstract | The paper deals with matrimonial rings, a particular kind of cycles in kinship networks which result when spouses are linked to each other by ties of consanguinity or affinity. By taking a network-analytic perspective, the paper endeavours to put this classical issue of structural kinship theory on a general basis, such as to allow conclusions which go beyond isolated discussions of particular ring types (like "cross-cousin marriage", "sister exchange", and so forth). The paper provides a definition and formal analysis of matrimonial rings, a method of enumerating all isomor-phism classes of matrimonial rings within given genealogical bounds, a series of network-analytic tools - such as the census graph - to analyse ring structures in empirical kinship networks, and techniques to effectuate these analyses with the computer program pajek. A program package containing the required macros can be downloaded from the web. The working of the method is illustrated at the example of kinship networks from four different parts of the world (South-America, Africa, Australia and Europe). |
| Number | 168, Winter 2004, special issue: Social networks |
| Language | English |
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