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The Strength of Weak Ties: A Network Theory Revisited

Mark Granovetter
- 01 Jan 1983 - 
- Vol. 1, Iss: 1983, pp 201-233
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In this article, the authors proposed a method to solve the problem of the "missing link" problem in the context of Haifa University, Israel, and their Ph.D. dissertation.
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of Ph.D. dissertation, University of Haifa, Israel.

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Social cognitive theory: An agentic perspective

TL;DR: Social cognitive theory distinguishes among three modes of agency: direct personal agency, proxy agency that relies on others to act on one's behest to secure desired outcomes, and collective agency exercised through socially coordinative and interdependent effort.
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The Benefits of Facebook “Friends:” Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites

TL;DR: Facebook usage was found to interact with measures of psychological well-being, suggesting that it might provide greater benefits for users experiencing low self-esteem and low life satisfaction.
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Social Capital: Prospects for a New Concept

TL;DR: A growing number of sociologists, political scientists, economists, and organizational theorists have invoked the concept of social capital in the search for answers to a broadening range of questions being confronted in their own fields as mentioned in this paper.
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The Search-Transfer Problem: The Role of Weak Ties in Sharing Knowledge across Organization Subunits.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors combine the concept of weak ties from social network research and the notion of complex knowledge to explain the role of weak links in sharing knowledge across organization subunits.
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Statistical physics of social dynamics

TL;DR: In this article, a wide list of topics ranging from opinion and cultural and language dynamics to crowd behavior, hierarchy formation, human dynamics, and social spreading are reviewed and connections between these problems and other, more traditional, topics of statistical physics are highlighted.
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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 Small World Problem

Stanley Milgram
- 01 Jan 1967 - 
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Getting a Job: A Study of Contacts and Careers

TL;DR: In this article, the Second Edition, the authors present a survey of job search and economic theory in the context of information flow and the problem of embeddedness in the job search process.
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The human group

TL;DR: The Human Group as mentioned in this paper is one of the seminal works in the study of small groups in sociology, psychology, management, and organizations, and has been widely used in the literature.
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Social Structure from Multiple Networks. I. Blockmodels of Roles and Positions

TL;DR: In this paper, Boorman and White proposed a dual model that partitions a population while simultaneously identifying patterns of relations and role and position concepts in the concrete social structure of small populations.