Friday, October 12, 2007

John Skvoretz - network analysis - Suncoast NetWork Seminar - international social network analysis - emergence of trust amongst strangers

Emergent Quality - community
Environment - Florida Counties

Not all emergent phenomena is disirable
What is measurable
  • ID components of community
  • Density
  • Social Capitol
  • Map ties between households
  • ID community behavior relationships- trust - network structure- volunteerism
  • model individual interactions
  • model time - how is time used - relationship of interactions based on time- cost of time for making relationships - ID agents with resources - resources with time requirements- economic conceptions
Tobacco Company Executives (circa 1974)
  • Network analysis with line thickness
  • pajek program for networks
Jim Moody - networks changing over time

Deep South - about Southern women by Allison Davis - study of social networking

Getting the data is the hardest part

Evolving network of relationships is community initiatives
Smith - Consortium of Community and Family - research model

Successive systems are more apt to stay the same with the environment

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