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 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...
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》...
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While your strong ties are still critical to your network, they may be less helpful when you are looking for a new job or career resources. According to a Stanford sociology professor, knowledge professionals find jobs more often through their weak ties than their strong ones. ...
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 ...
For, if we let his strength hurt, the brothers would become afraid and the tribe would fall apart, and we would be as weak as when the Meat-Eaters first came upon us and killed Boo-oogh. “Knuckle-Bone was a strong man, a very strong man, and he knew not law. He knew only ...
about any person's social world is that you have an inner circle of people whom you often talk to and feel close with,and an outer circle of people whom you see sometimes.Mark Granovetter,a sociology professor at Stanford University,named these categories(种类)"strong ti...
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Background An important line of research attempting to address the inference of the strength of social ties is based on the Strong Triadic Closure (STC) property from sociology, introduced by Simmel (1908) and later popularized by Granovetter (1977). To understand the STC property, consider an ...