scholarly journals Looking Back and Forging Ahead: Thirty Years of Social Network Research on the World-System

2009 ◽  
pp. 48-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulett Lloyd ◽  
Matthew C. Mahutga ◽  
Jan De Leeuw
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
World System ◽  
World Systems Theory ◽  
Methodological Innovation ◽  
Network Research ◽  
Network Methods ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
National Trade

We review three decades of research linking social network methods with world systems theory. We identify four themes nested within two versions of a general social network methodology—the identification of network Roles and Position. The themes vary by the type of data and the definition of equivalence used to identify roles and positions. Second, we provide a demonstration of the general methodological approach taken in the literature, applying a recent methodological innovation to a newly compiled large global trade dataset. The results identify the expected core/periphery interaction pattern, suggesting that it is a fundamental feature of cross-national trade data, regardless of how the data are analyzed. We conclude by suggesting both methodological and substantive directions for future social network research on the world-system.

scholarly journals The achievement of the country’s sustainable development in the conditions of global threats

2020 ◽  
Vol 211 ◽  
pp. 01029
Author(s):  
Nataliia Stukalo ◽  
Maryna Lytvyn ◽  
Yuriy Petrushenko ◽  
Yuliia Omelchenko
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Green Technologies ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Policy Adjustments

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development stipulates the need for economical use of natural resources and the introduction of green technologies to ensure the harmonious reconciliation of economic, social, and environmental development. However, the problems associated with the definition of the country’s sustainable development in conditions of global threats are far from being solved and require further theoretical efforts. So,the purpose of the article is to form a methodological approach to define the country’s sustainable development in conditions of global threats. The methods used in this study are the comparative and statistical analysis , the systematic approach – in creating the mechanism of ensuring the sustainable development of the world in conditions of global challenges. The analysis results show that the methodological approach allows assessing the country’s sustainable development considering global threats, which, in turn, policy adjustments to strengthen sustainable development in global crises. This study concludes that globalization’s process causes various changes; the positive or negative vector of these changes largely depends on the level of sustainable development of the country and the country’s position in the world economy. The higher the country’s sustainable development indicators, the more positive effects of globalization the state receives.

World Systems, Cores, and Peripheries in Prehistoric Europe

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 378-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Harding
Keyword(s):  
Systems Theory ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
World Systems ◽  
World Systems Theory ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Network Methods ◽  
The World ◽  
Systems View ◽  
The Bronze Age

The paper reviews the rise and utility of World Systems Theory in archaeology, with particular reference to Europe and the Bronze Age. After a consideration of its origins in the 1970s and 1980s, the main aspects of the theory are discussed. The evidence that shows that the Bronze Age world was highly interconnected is presented, and the implications of a World Systems view of the period considered. In an attempt to work towards a new narrative of the European Bronze Age, a brief discussion of network methods is introduced, since these offer an alternative, ‘bottom-up’, approach to the period which, it is argued, is more appropriate to the data than the World Systems approach.

scholarly journals The Geek-Culture as the New Youth Sociocultural Phenomenon of Contemporary Russian Society

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 114-118
Author(s):  
I. A. Vladimirov
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Empirical Base ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Constituent Elements

The article presents the results of the analysis of geek-culture as a youth sociocultural phenomenon of contemporary Russian society. The author paid special attention to the ideas of Alvin Toffler, who revealed the trend of fragmentation of society into mini-cultures that eventually turn into subcultures. New modern subcultural associations do not try to isolate themselves from the universal cultural space. They seek to integrate into the world cultural space. The result is the formation of super-subcultures. One of such supersubcultures is the geek-culture, which is actively developing both in Western and Russian societies. The empirical base of the study was the results of B. Sattles’ research, based on data of the social network “Twitter”. The author paid attention to social and journalistic interpretation of this phenomenon. The peculiarity of the work is the author’s definition of geek-culture and specification of its key constituent elements, based on empirical research.

Citizen-Driven International Networks and Globalization of Social Movements on Twitter

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qinfeng Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
National Income ◽  
World System ◽  
World Systems Theory ◽  
International Network ◽  
Global Networks ◽  
The World

Social media offer an avenue for the formation of citizen-driven global networks that are vital to mobilizing international support and curating global public discourse in social movements. This study looks into the global flow of information and communication about Hong Kong's Occupy Central Movement with a focus on the country/territory-level international network that emerged on Twitter. Drawing on the world systems theory and the literature on social movement, it examines whether the globalization of a local social movement via social media is circumscribed by the existing order of the world system (i.e., from the developed core countries/territories to the developing peripheral). It focuses its analysis on the network structure and the predictors of countries/territories’ centrality in the network. Findings of the social network analysis show that the structure of the international network still follows the existing order of the world system to a large extent. It is further supported by the result of the multivariate analysis that national income, a widely used benchmark for determining a country/territory's position in the world economy, is significantly and substantially related to centrality. However, national income does not have the largest predicting power. Instead, a country/territory's level of political grievances is found to be the strongest predictor. In addition, countries/territories with high Internet penetration rates tend to have high-centrality scores, and yet the effect size is smaller than the other predictors.

Geographic Perspectives on World-Systems Theory

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Flint
Keyword(s):  
Systems Theory ◽  
Political Geography ◽  
World System ◽  
The Body ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
World Systems ◽  
World Systems Theory ◽  
Politics Of Place ◽  
Macro Scale ◽  
The World

World-systems theory is a multidisciplinary, macro-scale approach to world history and social change which emphasizes the world-system as the primary (but not exclusive) unit of social analysis. “World-system” refers to the inter-regional and transnational division of labor, which divides the world into core countries, semi-periphery countries, and the periphery countries. Though intrinsically geographical, world-systems perspectives did not receive geographers’ attention until the 1980s, mostly in economic and political geography. Nevertheless, geographers have made important contributions in shaping world-systems perspectives through theoretical development and critique, particularly in the understanding of urban processes, states, and geopolitics. The world-systems theory can be considered as a sub-discipline of the study of political geography. Although sharing many of the theories, methods, and interests as human geography, political geography has a particular interest in territory, the state, power, and boundaries (including borders), across a range of scales from the body to the planet. Political geography has extended the scope of traditional political science approaches by acknowledging that the exercise of power is not restricted to states and bureaucracies, but is part of everyday life. This has resulted in the concerns of political geography increasingly overlapping with those of other sub-disciplines such as economic geography, and, particularly, with those of social and cultural geography in relation to the study of the politics of place.

Investigating Reddit to detect subreddit and author stereotypes and to evaluate author assortativity

2020 ◽  
pp. 016555152097986
Author(s):  
Francesco Cauteruccio ◽  
Enrico Corradini ◽  
Giorgio Terracina ◽  
Domenico Ursino ◽  
Luca Virgili
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Medium ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of

In recent years, Reddit has attracted the interest of many researchers due to its popularity all over the world. In this article, we aim at providing a contribution to the knowledge of this social network by investigating three of its aspects, interesting from the scientific viewpoint, and, at the same time, by analysing a large number of applications. In particular, we first propose a definition and an analysis of several stereotypes of both subreddits and authors. This analysis is coupled with the definition of three possible orthogonal taxonomies that help us to classify stereotypes in an appropriate way. Then, we investigate the possible existence of author assortativity in this social medium; specifically, we focus on co-posters, that is, authors who submitted posts on the same subreddit.

Social network cohesion and the retreat from Southern vowels in Raleigh

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Dodsworth ◽  
Richard A. Benton
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Network Effects ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Quadratic Assignment ◽  
Dialect Contact ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
Network Research ◽  
Network Methods ◽  
Southern Vowel Shift ◽  
Vowel Shift

AbstractNetwork research in sociolinguistics suggests that integration in a local community network promotes speakers' retention of local linguistic variants in the context of pressure from external or standard dialects. In most sociolinguistic network research, a speaker is assigned a single score along an index representing the aggregate of several network and other social features. We propose that contemporary network methods in adjacent disciplines can profitably apply to sociolinguistics, thereby facilitating not only more generalizable quantitative analysis but also new questions about therelationalnature of linguistic variables. Two network analysis methods—cohesive blocking and Quadratic Assignment Procedure regression—are used to evaluate the social network factors shaping the retreat from the Southern Vowel Shift (SVS) in Raleigh, North Carolina. The data come from a 160-speaker subset of a conversational corpus. Significant network effects indicate that network proximity to Raleigh's urban core promotes retention of SVS features, and that network similarity between speakers corresponds to linguistic similarity. Contemporary social-network methods can contribute to linguistic analysis by providing a holistic picture of the community's structure. (Networks, sociophonetics, Southern Vowel Shift, dialect contact)*

What does global migration network say about recent changes in the world system structure?

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 146-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrey Korotayev ◽  
Julia Zinkina
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Cultural Distance ◽  
World System ◽  
System Structure ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
The World ◽  
Migration Network

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the structure of the international migration system has remained stable through the recent turbulent changes in the world system. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology draws on the social network analysis framework – but with some noteworthy limitations stipulated by the specifics of data. Findings – The list of the most central nodes demonstrates remarkable stability over time, with the USA consistently occupying the first place and Russia and Germany stably entering the top-five (or even top-three ever since 1990). Centrality analysis also clearly demonstrates the emergence (in the 1970s) and development of the Gulf countries (particularly Saudi Arabia and UAE) as major migration destinations. Research limitations/implications – The results of the analysis present a mixture of evidence to support both the principles of the neoclassical migration theory, and some of its critiques, as the migration patterns are strongly influenced by historical links (such as colonial ties), geographical distance, cultural distance, etc. Defining the scope of influence of each of these factors lies beyond the scale of this paper. However, further application of social network analysis to studying the global migration network, in the authors ' opinion, has quite remarkable potential for contributing to this line of research. Originality/value – The paper views the specific features in the structure of the global migration network and their implications for world system studies.

scholarly journals Broadening and Deepening: Systemic Expansion, Incorporation and the Zone of Ignorance

2001 ◽  
pp. 225-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon D. Carlson
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
International System ◽  
World System ◽  
International Relations Theory ◽  
Critical Element ◽  
World Systems ◽  
World Systems Theory ◽  
The World ◽  
Inside Out

I intend to address a critical element of world-systems theory, and in doing so illuminate some larger concerns with international relations theory in general. Speci?cally, I will be examining the concept of the “external arena” and its relation to the international system as an expanding whole. The goal is to re-think the incorporation of new regions (‘states’ and peoples) into the world-system in order to understand world-system processes more completely. This should be taken as a positive critique of both Wallerstein’s analysis of incorporation (European, state-centric, ‘inside-out’) and Hall’s analysis of incorporation (external, indigenous peoples, ‘outside in’).

scholarly journals LIETUVOS STUDENTŲ SOCIALINIAI RYŠIAI: DIAGNOSTINIS TYRIMAS NAUDOJANT SOCIALINIO TINKLO MATRICĄ

Psichologija ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 32-46
Author(s):  
Dalia Antinienė ◽  
Viktorija Baršauskienė ◽  
Gediminas Merkys
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Value Theory ◽  
Personal Network ◽  
Network Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Diagnostic Research ◽  
Definition Of

Straipsnyje pateikti Lietuvos studentų socialinio tinklo empirinio tyrimo duomenys. Tyrimo priemonė yra socialinio tinklo matrica (7X5). Tai 7 socialinio tinklo subjektai: tėvai, broliai, sutuoktiniai, draugai, giminaičiai, kaimynai, bendramoksliai ir 5 socialinio tinklo funkcijos: finansinė pagalba, pastogės suteikimas, emocinė ir kt. pagalba. Remiantis MDS modeliu ir kitais rodikliais pateikti kai kurie tinklo matricos konstrukcinio validumo argumentai. Konstatuotas asimetriškai ryškus finansinės pagalbos funkcijos vyravimas. Empiriškai nustatyta tinklo struktūra traktuojama kaip kultūriškai specifiška ir ją bandoma interpretuoti modernizacijos sąvokos ir materialių bei postmaterialių vertybių teorijos kontekste. Formuluojamos konkrečios hipotezės, reikalaujančios detalesnių tarpkultųrinių tyrimų.  SOCIAL TIES OF LITHUANIAN STUDENTS: A DIAGNOSTIC RESEARCH, USING “THE MATRIX OF A SOCIAL NETWORK”Dalia Antinienė, Viktorija Baršauskienė, Gediminas Merkys SummaryThe given article analyses the definition of a social network and its treatment, discusses the tradition of empirical research, schools, as well as several contemporary studies. It also reveals the functional (applied) significance of social network research and conceptions.At present the social network has been analysed on different levels: individual, group, community, etc. However, the preferred methods are the ones that mark the individual’s establishment in the social structure, as well as the formation of this structure from separate micro-ties. Consequently, the research prioritizes egocantered (personal) network that is oriented towards a separate individual, or an ‘individual – individual’ relationship.Different scientists, especially in the West, carry out numerous social network research exploiting various methodologies. According to the authors of this article, diagnostic social network research is considered to be most advanced. Subsequently, one of research objectives was to initiate the modelling of a more reliable, valid, and economical instrument that would allow an overall evaluation of a definite person or group social network.The article presents the data of the Lithuanian students’ social network empirical research. The research instrument is the social network matrix that is comprised of 35 items. The answer table was filled in by 305 young adults at different Lithuanian universities, colleges, and higher educational institutions. The matrix involves 7 social network subjects, namely, parents, siblings, spouses, friends, relatives, neighbours, schoolmates, and 5 social network functions, such as financial support, accommodation, emotional (or similar) support. Two structures of the social network were revealed in this research. These are the close medium, involving parents, spouses, siblings, and friends, and the distant medium, involving schoolmates, neighbours, and relatives. Based on the Multi-Dimensional Scaling model, as well as on the other indices, the article presents several arguments for the matrix constructional validity. The asymmetrically marked domineering of the financial support function is evident. It might be explained in the terms of specificity of the student population, or the social and economic conditions in Lithuania. Empirically defined network structure is treated as culturally specific, and is tried to be interpreted in the context of materialistic and post-materialistic value theory and modernization concept. There emerged particular hypotheses that require more detailed cross-cultural studies.After the norming base has been supplied, the method of the social network matrix could be treated as an independent diagnostic instrument in the future. For this reason the authors of this article are ready to provide all interested researchers with the informatikon necessary for norming and correct intercultural comparison.

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