Stanley Milgram's Six Degrees of Separation experiment has been seen as evidence of what theory? Weak Ties Theory Rational Choice Exchange Theory Social Action Theory Small World Theory
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Hoan N.
In the basic six-degrees-of-separation question, one asks whether most pairs of people in the world are connected by a path of at most six edges in the social network, where an edge joins any two people who know each other on a first-name basis. Now let's consider a variation on this question. For each person in the world, we ask them to rank the thirty people they know best, in descending order of how well they know them (Let's suppose for purposes of this question that each person is able to think of thirty people to list). We then construct two different social networks: The "close-friend" network: from each person, we create a directed edge only to their ten closest friends on the list. The "distant-friend" network: from each person, we create a directed edge only to the ten people listed in positions 21 through 30 on their list. Let's think about how the small-world phenomenon might differ in these two networks. In particular, let C be the average number of people that a person can reach in 6 steps in the close-friend network, and D be the average number of people that a person can reach in six steps in the distant-friend network (taking the average of all people in the world). When researchers have done empirical studies to compare these two types of networks (and the exact details differ from one study to another), they tend to find that one of C or D is consistently larger than the other: Which of the two quantities, C or D, do you expect to be larger? Give a brief explanation for your answer: (2 points)
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The conclusions of Mark Granovetter's findings in "The Strength of Weak Ties" were that: a. people with high SES are likely to have direct ties to people with low SES. b. people tend to form heterogeneous social networks. c. people tend to form homogeneous social networks. d. weak ties are almost always long-lasting and durable.
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