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Lin is an academician at the Academia Sinica, Taiwan.He delivered the Fei Xiao-tong Memorial Lecture at Peking University in 2008, was honored the same year at the “Re-construction and Development of Sociology in China and Nan Lin’s Intellectual Thoughts” at Tsinghua University, and gave the Famous Foreign Lectures at the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology ...
Social network analysis (SNA) is the process of investigating social structures through the use of networks and graph theory. [1] It characterizes networked structures in terms of nodes (individual actors, people, or things within the network) and the ties , edges , or links (relationships or interactions) that connect them.
Linton Clarke Freeman (1927 – August 17, 2018) was an American structuralist sociologist known for his work in social networks. He was an emeritus professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. [1] Freeman developed the first measure of betweenness centrality.
Theodore Brameld (20 January 1904 – 18 October 1987) was an American philosopher and educator who supported the educational philosophy of social reconstructionism. [1] His philosophy originated in 1928 when he enrolled as a doctoral student at the University of Chicago in the field of philosophy where he trained under the progressive philosopher and politician, T.V. Smith.
Actor–network theory, a theoretical and methodological approach to social theory where everything in the social and natural worlds exists in constantly shifting networks of relationships Conflict theories , perspectives in political philosophy and sociology that argue that individuals and groups within society interact on the basis of ...
The strong tie theory, or agentive theory, has long been thought of in classical sociolinguistic theory as a driver of change, even prior to social network theory. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] [ 17 ] In the context of social network theory , agents are the people who are most connected to others in the network, and whose speech style is often imitated by ...
President-elect Donald Trump’s policy agenda is generally good for business, top executives and analysts told me at the Goldman Sachs Industrial and Materials conference this week. “It’s ...
DeGroot learning refers to a rule-of-thumb type of social learning process. The idea was stated in its general form by the American statistician Morris H. DeGroot; [1] antecedents were articulated by John R. P. French [2] and Frank Harary. [3] The model has been used in physics, computer science and most widely in the theory of social networks ...