Adolescent Reliance on Social Networks in Career Exploration

1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Cotterell
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Career Exploration ◽  
Weak Ties ◽  
Network Ties ◽  
Advisory System ◽  
Job Finding

This paper reviews research on the role of network ties in job-finding in order to suggest how social networks may operate as information-based systems exerting influences on adolescent career exploration. Strong network ties influence job-finding differently than weak ties. Reliance on network ties as information sources may explain the reluctance of some adolescents to seek advice from the school's formal career advisory system. Suggestions are given on how to provide a context for adolescent career exploration, using knowledge of network ties.

Job-Finding among the Poor

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Susan Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Weak Ties ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Job Seeking ◽  
Job Information ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Job Finding

This article examines whether social ties play a significant role in job seeking by poor people. A number of studies provide evidence that in relative and absolute terms, the poor rely heavily on social networks for job-finding. Without networks, poor job seekers are significantly less likely to find work. After considering what kinds of ties help the poor get ahead, this article discusses the role of weak ties as a source of job information and influence. It then explores the link between employment outcomes and network structure and composition as well as how people make leveraging ties, and how might this process of tie formation inform our understanding of network inequality. It also asks why leveraging ties are effective and concludes with an assessment of conditions that facilitate social capital activation.

scholarly journals A Good Friend’: The Role of Peer Networks in Juvenile Treatment Courts

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-59
Author(s):  
Pamela Linden ◽  
Shelly Cohen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Peer Interactions ◽  
New York State ◽  
Protective Role ◽  
Good Friend ◽  
Network Ties ◽  
Treatment Courts ◽  
Treatment Court

A primary goal of Juvenile Treatment Courts is participant abstention from the use of alcohol and drugs. The present paper seeks to understand the role of social networks in participant abstention by examining the accounts of peer interactions of 37 current and former youth participants in New York State. This qualitative study found that while severing deviant network ties were involved in abstention in some cases, the dominant theme was the perceived protective role of emotionally close, albeit drug using, peers in supporting abstention. Although most cognitively based adolescent chemical abuse treatment programs explore the role of social networks in youth chemical use and abuse, the findings that youth in Juvenile Treatment Court programs have continued exposure to drugs and alcohol through interaction with their social networks suggest that social network interactions also enter into the discourse taking place within Juvenile Treatment Court settings.

scholarly journals Access to Medical Technologies: Do Gender and Social Capital matter?

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-31
Author(s):  
Mickaël Géraudel ◽  
Katherine Gundolf** ◽  
Beate Cesinger ◽  
Christina Constantinidis
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Weak Ties ◽  
Network Ties ◽  
Private Practitioners ◽  
Medical Technologies ◽  
Social Network Ties ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Better Than

We explore the relationship between the characteristics of social capital, the speed of access to medical technologies and the role of gender in a private practice context. Our findings from a sample of 98 German private practitioners show that: (a) being a woman has an overall negative impact on the speed of access to medical technologies; (b) private practitioners with strong social network ties obtain quicker access to medical technologies than do those with weak ties; (c) men relying on their weak ties perform better than women who do so. In contrast, we observe that women relying on strong ties outperform their male counterparts in terms of speed of access to medical technologies.

Research on Innovation Mechanism of Industry Cluster Embedded in Social Networks Relation

2011 ◽  
Vol 403-408 ◽  
pp. 421-425
Author(s):  
Xiao Ling Fang
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Industrial Cluster ◽  
Economic Behavior ◽  
Weak Ties ◽  
Industry Cluster ◽  
Network Ties ◽  
Innovation Cluster ◽  
Cluster Network ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Innovation Mechanism

In this paper, the new economic sociology perspective is applied for in-depth study on industry cluster innovation mechanism. Industry cluster is an economic system, but also a social system. The economic behavior of industrial cluster is embedded in social networks. And the embeddedness of industrial cluster is a fundamental characteristic of social networks. According to the principle of Granovetter's "weak ties", the tie strength of the individual and the extent of the heterogeneity of the located network indirectly affect the validity of the information that the individual in the network obtains. Therefore, the strong ties and weak ties play a unique role in cluster network trade and innovation. A cluster network with integrated structure and thorough function needs to have both of such relation networks and have the ability to maintain the relative balance of them in the dynamic evolution. This relatively balanced cluster network ties strength is the ideal structure of innovation cluster network.

The Role of Social Networks and Information Sources on Hurricane Evacuation Decision Making

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 04017005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arif Mohaimin Sadri ◽  
Satish V. Ukkusuri ◽  
Hugh Gladwin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Hurricane Evacuation

What’s left of trust in a network society? An evolutionary model and critical discussion of trust and societal communication

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thorsten Quandt
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Evolutionary Model ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Personal Trust ◽  
Democratic Societies ◽  
Participatory Network

There seems to be dwindling trust in media and public authorities in highly developed, democratic societies, with a common fear that audiences are being manipulated. At the same time, people in these countries increasingly turn to alternative information sources, like social networks, blogs and other forms of online communication that they deem to be more authentic. This article discusses the role of trust in parallel to the development of society and media. On the basis of an evolutionary model of societal communication, the author develops a concept of network trust vis-a-vis institutionalized trust and personal trust. He argues that a widespread loss of trust in media and institutions might pose a danger to democratic societies – and that various forms of (participatory) network communication might not be an adequate solution to this problem.

Social network analysis of wildlife tourism microentrepreneurial network

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birendra KC ◽  
Duarte B Morais ◽  
M Nils Peterson ◽  
Erin Seekamp ◽  
Jordan W Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Weak Ties ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Network Ties ◽  
Entrepreneurial Process ◽  
Wildlife Tourism ◽  
Major Factors

Social networks are an important element of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs rely on social networks to access ideas, information, and resources to facilitate their entrepreneurial process. Strong and weak ties influence the entrepreneurial process in unique ways. This study utilized social network analysis approach to examine wildlife tourism microentrepreneurship through in-person structured interviews with 37 microentrepreneurs from North Carolina’s Pamlico Sound Region. Specifically, this study examined the extent of network ties, the type of support received from those network ties, and the process of creating and maintaining the business network ties. Weak ties were more prevalent than strong ties. Support was received in terms of marketing and advertising, information sharing, and product sponsorship. Weak ties were established through professional workshops and seminars or while working in the same territory, whereas reciprocity, togetherness, communication, and trust were identified as major factors to maintain weak ties. This study suggests that cognitive social capital factors (e.g. reciprocity, togetherness, and trust) can be highly important toward effective use of social networks, as well as to ensure entrepreneurial success.

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