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The old boy (and girl) network: Social network formation on university campuses
Adalbert Mayer,Steven L. Puller +1 more
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In this paper, the authors investigated the structure and composition of social networks on university campuses and investigated the processes that lead to their formation, finding that race is strongly related to social ties, even after controlling for a variety of measures of socioeconomic background, ability and college activities.About:
This article is published in Journal of Public Economics.The article was published on 2008-02-01. It has received 413 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social network & Social learning.read more
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Connection Strategies: Social Capital Implications of Facebook-enabled Communication Practices
TL;DR: It is found that reporting more ‘actual’ friends on the site is predictive of social capital, but only to a point, and the explanation for these findings may be that the identity information in Facebook serves as a social lubricant, encouraging individuals to convert latent to weak ties and enabling them to broadcast requests for support or information.
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Tastes, ties, and time: A new social network dataset using Facebook.com
TL;DR: A new public dataset based on manipulations and embellishments of a popular social network site, Facebook.com, is introduced and five distinctive features of this dataset are emphasized and its advantages and limitations vis-a-vis other kinds of network data are highlighted.
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Peer Effects in Education: How Might They Work, How Big Are They and How Much Do We Know Thus Far?
TL;DR: The authors summarizes the recent literature on peer effects in student outcomes at the elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels at the university and high school levels. But the linear-in-means model masks considerable heterogeneity in the effects experienced by different types of students.
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Social structure of Facebook networks
TL;DR: The social structure of Facebook “friendship” networks at one hundred American colleges and universities at a single point in time is studied, finding for example that common high school is more important to the social organization of large institutions and that the importance of common major varies significantly between institutions.
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Beyond and below racial homophily: ERG models of a friendship network documented on Facebook.
Andreas Wimmer,Kevin Lewis +1 more
TL;DR: The authors unpack racial homogeneity using a theoretical framework that distinguishes between various tie formation mechanisms and their effects on the racial composition of networks, exponential random graph modeling that can disentangle these mechanisms empirically, and a rich new data set based on the Facebook pages of a cohort of college students.
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The Strength of Weak Ties
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the degree of overlap of two individuals' friendship networks varies directly with the strength of their tie to one another, and the impact of this principle on diffusion of influence and information, mobility opportunity, and community organization is explored.
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The Structure and Function of Complex Networks
TL;DR: Developments in this field are reviewed, including such concepts as the small-world effect, degree distributions, clustering, network correlations, random graph models, models of network growth and preferential attachment, and dynamical processes taking place on networks.
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Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications
TL;DR: This paper presents mathematical representation of social networks in the social and behavioral sciences through the lens of Dyadic and Triadic Interaction Models, which describes the relationships between actor and group measures and the structure of networks.
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Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications.
TL;DR: This work characterizes networked structures in terms of nodes (individual actors, people, or things within the network) and the ties, edges, or links that connect them.
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Identification of Endogenous Social Effects: The Reflection Problem
TL;DR: The authors examined the reflection problem that arises when a researcher observing the distribution of behaviour in a population tries to infer whether the average behaviour in some group influences the behaviour of the individuals that comprise the group.