scholarly journals Service, Activism, and Friendships in High School: A Longitudinal Social Network Analysis of Peer Influence and Critical Beliefs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Wegemer
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Peer Influence ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Network Effects ◽  
Friendship Networks ◽  
Relative Contribution ◽  
Service Activities

AbstractScholars acknowledge that friends shape youth civic engagement, but the relative contribution of peer influence and critical beliefs to civic behaviors has yet to be disaggregated. Informed by sociopolitical development and critical consciousness theories, the present study used longitudinal social network analysis to examine peer socialization and adolescents’ awareness of systemic inequities in relation to participation in service and activist activities at a high school serving primarily low-income Latinx youth. Students were surveyed in May 2019 and May 2020 (N = 354; 51% female; in 2019, Mage = 15.9, age range 14.4 to 18.5). The results yielded evidence of peer influence on service activities, but not activism or perceptions of inequities. In contrast, adolescents’ perception of inequities predicted their activist behavior, but not service, after controlling for network effects and individual covariates. The school provided scaffolding for service activities, but not activist activities, potentially explaining the salience of service participation in youth friendship networks.

Peer Influence on Academic Performance: A Social Network Analysis of Social-Emotional Intervention Effects

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 903-913 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawn DeLay ◽  
Linlin Zhang ◽  
Laura D. Hanish ◽  
Cindy F. Miller ◽  
Richard A. Fabes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Peer Influence ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Intervention Effects

scholarly journals Multidimensional homophily in friendship networks

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
PER BLOCK ◽  
THOMAS GRUND
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Network Models ◽  
One Dimension ◽  
Friendship Networks ◽  
Friendship Formation ◽  
Multiple Groups ◽  
Main Effects

AbstractHomophily—the tendency for individuals to associate with similar others—is one of the most persistent findings in social network analysis. Its importance is established along the lines of a multitude of sociologically relevant dimensions, e.g. sex, ethnicity and social class. Existing research, however, mostly focuses on one dimension at a time. But people are inherently multidimensional, have many attributes and are members of multiple groups. In this article, we explore such multidimensionality further in the context of network dynamics. Are friendship ties increasingly likely to emerge and persist when individuals have an increasing number of attributes in common? We analyze eleven friendship networks of adolescents, draw on stochastic actor-oriented network models and focus on the interaction of established homophily effects. Our results indicate that main effects for homophily on various dimensions are positive. At the same time, the interaction of these homophily effects is negative. There seems to be a diminishing effect for having more than one attribute in common. We conclude that studies of homophily and friendship formation need to address such multidimensionality further.

scholarly journals Using social network analysis to understand multisectoral governance in district-level tobacco control programme implementation in India

2022 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. e006471
Author(s):  
Shinjini Mondal ◽  
Upendra Bhojani ◽  
Samntha Lobbo ◽  
Susan Law ◽  
Antonia Maioni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Tobacco Control ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Visual Learning ◽  
Control Cell ◽  
District Level ◽  
Essential Components

IntroductionInterest in multisectoral policies has increased, particularly in the context of low-income and middle-income countries and efforts towards Sustainable Development Goals, with greater attention to understand effective strategies for implementation and governance. The study aimed to explore and map the composition and structure of a multisectoral initiative in tobacco control, identifying key factors engaged in policy implementation and their patterns of relationships in local-level networks in two districts in the state of Karnataka, India.MethodsSocial network analysis (SNA) was used to examine the structure of two district tobacco control networks with differences in compliance with the India’s national tobacco control law. The survey was administered to 108 respondents (n=51 and 57) in two districts, producing three distinct network maps about interaction, information-seeking and decision-making patterns within each district. The network measures of centrality, density, reciprocity, centralisation and E-I index were used to understand and compare across the two districts.ResultsMembers from the department of health, especially those in the District Tobacco Control Cell, were the most frequently consulted actors for information as they led district-level networks. The most common departments engaged beyond health were education, police and municipal. District 1’s network displayed high centralisation, with a district nodal officer who exercised a central role with the highest in-degree centrality. The district also exhibited greater density and reciprocity. District 2 showed a more dispersed pattern, where subdistrict health managers had higher betweenness centrality and acted as brokers in the network.ConclusionCollaboration and cooperation among sectors and departments are essential components of multisectoral policy. SNA provides a mechanism to uncover the nature of relationships and key actors in collaborative dynamics. It can be used as a visual learning tool for policy planners and implementers to understand the structure of actual implementation and concentrate their efforts to improve and enhance collaboration.

scholarly journals Social Network Analysis and Resilience in University Students: An Approach from Cohesiveness

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 2119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Liébana-Presa ◽  
Elena Andina-Díaz ◽  
María-Mercedes Reguera-García ◽  
Iván Fulgueiras-Carril ◽  
David Bermejo-Martínez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
University Students ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Friendship Networks ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
The Social ◽  
Minimal Contact ◽  
Transversal Study

The Social Network Analysis offers a view of social phenomena based on interactions. The aim of this study is to compare social reality through the cohesion variable and analyse its relationship with the resilience of university students. This information is useful to work with the students academically and to optimise the properties of the network that have an influence in academic performance. This is a descriptive transversal study with 90 students from the first and third year of the Nursing Degree. Cohesion variables from the support and friendship networks and the level of resilience were gathered. The UCINET programme was used for network analysis and the SPSS programme for statistical analysis. The students’ friendship and support networks show high intra-classroom cohesion although there are no differences between the support networks and friendship or minimal contact networks in both of the courses used for the study. The network cohesion indicators show less cohesion in the third year. No correlations were found between cohesion and resilience. Resilience does not appear to be an attribute related to cohesion or vice versa.

scholarly journals Smoking-based selection and influence in gender-segregated friendship networks: a social network analysis of adolescent smoking

Addiction ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 105 (7) ◽  
pp. 1280-1289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liesbeth Mercken ◽  
Tom A.B. Snijders ◽  
Christian Steglich ◽  
Erkki Vertiainen ◽  
Hein De Vries
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Adolescent Smoking ◽  
Friendship Networks
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