scholarly journals NEW SOCIAL WORLD: DESCRIPTION OF THE MAIN SOCIAL NETWORKS

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 31-53
Author(s):  
Nikolay Vasilyev
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social World

scholarly journals Structure and function in human and primate social networks: implications for diffusion, network stability and health

2020 ◽  
Vol 476 (2240) ◽  
pp. 20200446 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. I. M. Dunbar
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Network Structure ◽  
Fractal Structure ◽  
Social World ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
Network Stability ◽  
External Threats ◽  
And Function

The human social world is orders of magnitude smaller than our highly urbanized world might lead us to suppose. In addition, human social networks have a very distinct fractal structure similar to that observed in other primates. In part, this reflects a cognitive constraint, and in part a time constraint, on the capacity for interaction. Structured networks of this kind have a significant effect on the rates of transmission of both disease and information. Because the cognitive mechanism underpinning network structure is based on trust, internal and external threats that undermine trust or constrain interaction inevitably result in the fragmentation and restructuring of networks. In contexts where network sizes are smaller, this is likely to have significant impacts on psychological and physical health risks.

scholarly journals Reconsidering Social Dynamics: Fundamentality and Social Simulations

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-125
Author(s):  
Ioannis Katerelos ◽  
Charalambos Tsekeris
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Complex Systems ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Social World ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Fundamental Law ◽  
Human Complex ◽  
The Ideal

We live in a ceaselessly changing and inescapably dynamic social world. Given the inherent unpredictability of human complex systems, this brief article seeks to show that agent-based social simulations can possibly approach the ideal of a fundamental law of social dynamics, including all forms or processes of social dynamics, articulated with everyday life and action, individual or collective. This ultimately tends to recover the explanatory potential of social networks and offer an efficient research basis for the creative re-conceptualization of social dynamics.

scholarly journals New Social World: The Great Power of the Network

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey KOMISSAROV ◽  
Nikolay VASILYEV
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
New Products ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Social World ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Products ◽  
Digital Government ◽  
International Telecommunication Union ◽  
Commercial Networks ◽  
Worldwide Network

At the early beginning of the 21st century, it was impossible to imagine how fast the Internet would develop. It was also not obvious that the worldwide network would actually become available in all parts of the planet, and the network itself would become the basis for the birth and development of new global products - social networks, communications, and services. According to the International Telecommunication Union, the Internet and new digital products along twenty years have almost completely absorbed the population of developed countries (87%) and are growing rapidly in developing countries (47%)[1]. The affordable cost of communication for the majority of the population together with free communication services create the basis for the emergence of not only new products but also a constant increase in the number of digital services, which quite recently could only be obtained offline. Together with large digital government services, commercial networks, communicators, and services are creating a new social structure capable of independent machine learning and development. The work aims to show that much faster than it was supposed new digital products will intertwine with each other, forming a new social platform, which is called a New Social World. The analysis of sociological works on this topic together with an analysis of practical research on the Internet and new digital products confirms this assumption. Despite strict user agreements, global online monitoring, constant online control and full access to the data of each user, more and more people become users of social networks and services, and most social network users become loyal users of other new products and services, easily switching on digital consumption and consumption of real products and services provided online. The new social reality, generated by the powerful interweaving of the world's digital products and services will forever change the sociocultural and media world. An urgent and constant study of this phenomenon is necessary since the ways of its further development are unpredictable both in relation to the existence of traditional, social, national identification and with the existence of traditional state institutions and states.

scholarly journals Reconsidering Social Dynamics: Fundamentality and Social Simulations

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-125
Author(s):  
Ioannis Katerelos ◽  
Charalambos Tsekeris
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Complex Systems ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Social World ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Fundamental Law ◽  
Human Complex ◽  
The Ideal

We live in a ceaselessly changing and inescapably dynamic social world. Given the inherent unpredictability of human complex systems, this brief article seeks to show that agent-based social simulations can possibly approach the ideal of a fundamental law of social dynamics, including all forms or processes of social dynamics, articulated with everyday life and action, individual or collective. This ultimately tends to recover the explanatory potential of social networks and offer an efficient research basis for the creative re-conceptualization of social dynamics.

Running between the raindrops: Running marathons and the potential to put marriage in jeopardy

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. 509-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Assaf Lev ◽  
Sima Zach
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Social World ◽  
Identity Transformation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Distance Runners ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Website Analysis

For many amateur long-distance runners the marathon is not merely an event – it is a demanding activity, both physically and mentally. While being immersed in this activity they enter the running social world and undergo a process of identity transformation. This process encompasses immersion into a ‘zone’ that is often outside the partnership of marriage and includes absorption into social networks that are unlimited in time and place. In this study, an ethnographic research design was utilized, employing a combination of participant observation, interviews, and website analysis. Key findings illustrate both the complexity and the fragility regarding the encouragement of the non-running partner. It is suggested that, even if the non-running partner is supportive, embracing a serious marathon identity by the running partner can jeopardize the marriage. In other words, the partnership may crumble due to the identity transformation of one of the partners when the other doesn’t play an active part in the new social world.

Beyond Dyads and Triads: A Comparison of Tetrads in Twenty Social Networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-404
Author(s):  
Cassie McMillan ◽  
Diane Felmlee
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social World ◽  
Network Motifs ◽  
Advice Seeking ◽  
Relationship Types ◽  
Different Types

Social psychologists focus on the microlevel features that define interaction, often attending to dyads and triads. We argue that there also is utility in studying how configurations of four actors, or tetrads, pattern our social world. The current project considers the prevalence of directed tetrads across twenty social networks representing five relationship types (friendship, legislative co-sponsorship, Twitter, advice seeking, and email). By comparing these observed networks to randomly generated conditional networks, we identify tetrads that occur more frequently than expected, or network motifs. In all twenty networks, we find evidence for six tetrad motifs that collectively highlight tendencies toward hierarchy, clustering, and bridging in social interaction. Variations across network genres also emerge, suggesting that unique tetrad structural signatures could define different types of interaction.

“The framily plan”: Characteristics of ties described as both “friend” and “family” in personal networks

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
AMY N. BUSH ◽  
ALICIA M. WALKER ◽  
BREA L. PERRY
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Family Member ◽  
Social World ◽  
Personal Networks ◽  
Frequency Of Contact ◽  
Relationship Types ◽  
Personal Social Networks ◽  
Kinship Ties

AbstractDespite the growing potential for multiplexity in our complex social world, social network methodology often does not adequately capture this phenomenon. Most commonly in research on egocentric social networks, when respondent designate a tie as both family member and friend, the tendency is to default to “family” prior to aggregation for analysis, potentially ignoring important and meaningful variation. As a result, relatively little is known about multiplexity in personal social networks, and particularly about individuals who are simultaneously kin and friends. To address this gap, we assess the rate of occurrence of kinship/friendship multiplexity, and examine characteristics of alters nominated as friends and kin in comparison to those with unidimensional functionality. We find that this kind of multiplexity is fairly common–comprising about one-fifth of kinship ties and one-fourth of friendship ties. Moreover, cross–listed alters are significantly different from those characterized in one function, serving in greater capacity in terms of provision of support, frequency of contact, closeness, and as resources for discussion of important matters. Our findings underscore the critical need to appropriately classify multiplex kinship/friendship ties to avoid making incorrect inferences about support processes and their effects on outcomes across different relationship types.

Theories of Social Networks

2020 ◽  
pp. 33-49
Author(s):  
Jan Fuhse
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social World ◽  
Mutual Orientation ◽  
Relational Sociology ◽  
Individual Action ◽  
The Social ◽  
Action Networks ◽  
Theoretical Thinking ◽  
Objective Structures

Theories of social networks offer abstract perspectives of what social networks are and how they are connected to other features of the social world. This chapter gives an overview of three recent perspectives: (1) Theorists of action (Burt, Coleman, Lin, Hedström) regard social networks as objective structures restricting or enabling individual action. Networks become a resource (social capital) that actors strive to maximize. (2) Authors following pragmatism or symbolic interactionism (Emirbayer, Martin, Crossley) consider social networks as patterns of subjective meaning arising out of the interaction between actors. This approach is linked to field theoretical thinking, considering networks as arising out of the mutual orientation in fields. (3) Relational sociologists (White, Tilly, Mische, Padgett, Fuhse) treat social networks as infused with meaning that is processed in communication/transaction/switchings between actors. Relational sociology has been amended to study networks of symbols and the communicative dynamics of social networks.

scholarly journals SOCIAL NETWORKS. FORMATION OF A NEW SOCIAL WORLD

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-61
Author(s):  
Nikolay Vasilyev ◽  
Sergey Komissarov
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social World

Autism and the transition to university from the student perspective

Autism ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 1531-1541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sinead Lambe ◽  
Ailsa Russell ◽  
Catherine Butler ◽  
Sangeet Fletcher ◽  
Chris Ashwin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Social World ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Student Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
Living Skills ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Academic Demands

University provides individuals with the opportunity to develop greater independence in living skills and social networks, while also gaining valuable qualifications. Despite a high proportion of autistic individuals aspiring to attend university, many either do not seek or gain entry or drop out prematurely. Although some steps have been taken to develop effective support, a recent review highlighted the scarcity of research into programmes designed to support autistic students transitioning to university. In addition, few studies have examined the views of autistic students themselves. This study investigated the perspectives of autistic students transitioning to university. Three focus groups were conducted with 25 autistic students preparing to start university. Participants were asked about their hopes for starting university, as well as their worries and concerns. Data were analysed using thematic analysis, from which five main themes were identified: The Social World, Academic Demands, Practicalities of University Living, Leaving the Scaffolding of Home and Transition to Adulthood. The results provide an important account of the challenges autistic students face when transitioning to university, as well as their aspirations. These findings have a number of practical implications.

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