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ethnic affiliations.
The world has become smaller for humanity because of the
major trends and developments in information and Social units referred to in this context are called ACTORS.
communications technology in the 21st century. Because of the
links that technology has created into each of our lives, it is ACTORS
inevitable that our actions can now influence those around us. - discrete individual or collective social units
This chapter discusses the concept of relationships and - connotes "a social unit that is playing a role in a larger social
networks in society in the 21st century. It looks into the nature system"
of connections, relationships, social networks, and neural
networks. In social network analysis, actors are called nodes and vertices.
Second-order egonet
- shows the relationship between alters and other nodes in the
network
Types of Networks
1. Relational
- one-mode networks
- characterized by rules that determine the presence, direction,
and extent of a relationship between two units.
Examples of relational units
-neighborhood, friendship, alliance, or trade networks
2. Affiliational
- networks in which the rule determines an affiliation of a unit
with an event, organization or group.
Examples of affiliational networks
- membership in a professional organization, national
membership in international organizations or the distribution of
Connection Social networks, why important?
- refers to the tie that links actors to one another. It illustrates - because there is a need to look into how a group has made a
what links unit A to unit B decision on a particular issue
- looking into the outcome alone neglects the complex process
Dyad - made up of a pair of actors through which a consequence or decision has been made or
Triad - three actors are involved reached
- social network analysis allows us to systematically show how
Relationships these interactions among group members led to a particular
- the collection of ties among the actors in a group outcome or decision
- a collection of ties of a specific kind measured on pairs of
actors from a particular group of social entities
Graph/Diagraph
- a visual representation to understand networks
- actors are represented as nodes or vertices and the ties
(connections) represented as lines
Social network
- made up of a subset of nodes that are organized through their
ties with each other
- a set of relations made up of who knows whom, who is a
friend of whom, or who talks with whom.
- a set of relations that apply to a set of actors, as well as any
additional information on those actors and relations.
3 elements
1. It is made up of a set of actors
2. Every actor has a set of individual attributes
3. It has a set of ties or connections that define at least one
relation among others.