Our context in this chapter will begin with the famous " strength of weak ties " hypothesis from sociology [190], exploring outward from this point to more general settings as well. Let's begin with some backgound and a motivating question. As part of his Ph.D. thesis research in the ...
Strong Ties, Weak Ties, and Human Capital: Latino Immigrant Employment Outside the Enclave* This study focuses on the role of social ties and human capital in the integration of Latino immigrants into the local economy. This analysis extends earli... MJ Pfeffer,PA Parra - 《Rural Sociology》...
The study also shows some points of theoretical relevance: the relational and dialogical characters of inventions and the influence of organizational variables. The new economic sociology has highlighted the role of social networks in innovation, stressing the importance of weak ties and ...
Strong and weak ties are compared in terms of their contributions to information flow about the work activity of persons in intraorganizational social networks. Strong ties are more important than weak ties in promoting information flow about activities within an organizational subsystem. Weak ties are...
According to a Stanford sociology professor, knowledge professionals find jobs more often through their weak ties than their strong ones. Why? Think about your group of friends or colleagues and how often you hear the same information from multiple people. (“Did you hear that Bucky got a ...
Social capital describes the social interactions that become valuable, durable exchange relationships. Weak tie-relationships that extend networks increase the chances for survival compared to the strong ties of close friends and family. Importantly, our study finds that higher community-level social capit...
Strong Ties, Weak Ties, and Human Capital: Latino Immigrant Employment Outside the Enclave* This study focuses on the role of social ties and human capital in the integration of Latino immigrants into the local economy. This analysis extends earli... MJ Pfeffer,PA Parra - 《Rural Sociology》...
We encode this observation in a reinforcement process defining a time-varying network model that exhibits the emergence of strong and weak ties. We study the effect of time-varying and heterogeneous interactions on the classic rumour spreading model in both synthetic and real-world networks. We ...
We provide direct evidence that people with strong family ties have a lower level of trust in strangers than people with weak family ties, and argue that this association is causal. We also investigate the mechanisms that underlie this effect, and provide evidence that these revolve around the ...
Here the years passed quietly; he faithfully performed the drudgery that brought him his salary, and, a student always, he took half-a- dozen degrees. He was, among other things, a Doctor of Sociology, of Philosophy, and of Science, though he was known to the world, in later days, ...