Browsing by Subject "Social Networks"
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Bridging and Bonding: How Diverse Networks Influence Organizational Outcomes
(2015)Although many organizations aspire to be diverse, both in their internal composition and external collaborations, diversity's consequences for organizational outcomes remain unclear. This project uses three separate studies ... -
Essays on Migration, Social Networks and Employment
(2022)Immigrants rely on social networks upon arrival to their country of destination to access resources, find a job, and begin the process of incorporation. However, the contours of how and under what circumstances networks ... -
Essays on Social Networks in Development
(2014)This thesis aims towards contributing to the understanding of the role of social networks in the context of developing countries. It contains two chapters that take on different aspects of social networks. In the first chapter, ... -
Goal Pursuit and the Pursuit of Social Networks
(2013)An abstract of a dissertation that examines the motivational foundations of social networks. Five studies using diverse methods examine goal pursuit as an antecedent to social network structure, finding that self-oriented ... -
Mapping the Social Ecology of Culture: Social Position, Connectedness, and Influence as Predictors of Systematic Variation in Affective Meaning
(2013)A strong model of culture should capture both the structured and negotiated elements of cultural meaning, allowing for the fluidity of social action and the agency of social actors. Although cultural meanings often reproduce ... -
Measuring Social Change as Categorical Change
(2013)Sociologists often depict demographic categories as socially constructed, non-essential, and fluid. The language of fluid, contingent categories has not, however, translated very well into the practice of describing social ... -
Optimizing the Network Sampling With Memory Algorithm
(2022)Network Sampling with Memory (NSM), a novel sampling method that extends existing Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS) methods, is becoming increasingly attractive to sociologists, demographers, and others to sample ... -
Structural Constraints in Intergroup Relations: A Contextual Approach to Polarization and Conflict in Social Networks
(2018)Social network analysis is a powerful tool to describe and explain the dynamics of intergroup relations. Research using political and school networks illuminates the micro assortative mechanisms of social ties that directly ... -
The Structure of Support: Exploring How Social Networks Influence the Physical and Mental Health of U.S. Adults.
(2013)An extensive body of research documents the strong influence of social relationships, social support, social integration and social networks on well-being. Nonetheless, conceptual clarity remains elusive and these terms ... -
Three Papers on Peer Sanctioning, its Evaluation, and its Justification
(2023)Previous research argues that people receive positive evaluations from third parties for engaging in peer punishment, which lead to reputational rewards. Recent work challenges this, however, finding instead that punishers ... -
Toward Attack-Resistant Distributed Information Systems by Means of Social Trust
(2010)Trust has played a central role in the design of open distributed systems that span distinct administrative domains. When components of a distributed system can assess the trustworthiness of their peers, they are in a better ...
