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3,633 are the core, quality-scored corpus (34 lettered sections — see How We Work); the remaining 88 are cross-corpus synthesis documents (68 InterDocs, 12 Connections, 8 Theories) also indexed here.
407 results for "social network" — page 1 of 21
ZD_4_11 — Social Network Analysis — Granovetter, Small Worlds, Influence
Social network analysis (SNA) — the study of social structures through the use of graph theory and network science, where individuals (or organizations, nations, etc.) are represented as nodes and their relationships (fr
ZC_5_02 — Sociology of Technology: Social Shaping, Actor-Networks, and Technological Determinism
The sociology of technology (a core subfield of Science and Technology Studies — STS) investigates how social, economic, political, and cultural factors shape the development, design, adoption, and consequences of techno
N_5_08 — Bohemian Club and Elite Social Networks: Sociological Analysis
The Bohemian Club is an exclusive all-male private club founded in 1872 in San Francisco, California, originally for journalists, artists, and musicians ("bohemians"), which over the following decades transformed into on
ZC_5_16 — Computational Social Science: Big Data, Agent-Based Models, and Digital Behavioral Analysis
Computational social science (CSS) is the interdisciplinary field that applies computational methods — machine learning, natural language processing, network analysis, agent-based modeling, and large-scale data mining —
G_2_09 — Network Analysis in Archaeology — Trade, Communication, Influence
Network analysis — rooted in graph theory and social network analysis (SNA) — provides formal mathematical tools for modeling and analyzing the structure of relationships between archaeological entities: sites, regions,
ZC_5_19 — Network Society — Castells
Manuel Castells (born 1942 in Hellín, Spain), professor at the University of Southern California and emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, produced one of the most ambitious sociological analyses of the lat
ZC_2_16 — Social Capital
Social capital — the networks of relationships, norms of reciprocity, and trust that facilitate collective action and cooperation within and between groups — emerged as one of the most influential and contested concepts
ZC_2_20 — Social Capital Theory — Putnam
Social capital — the networks of relationships, norms of reciprocity, and trust that facilitate cooperation among individuals and groups — became one of the most influential and contested concepts in social science follo
ZD_4_13 — Network Science: Graph Theory, Small Worlds, and Scale-Free Networks
Network science is the study of complex systems represented as networks (graphs) — collections of nodes (vertices) connected by edges (links) — encompassing social networks (people connected by friendships, collaboration
ZD_4_14 — Computational Social Science: Agent-Based Modeling, Digital Trace Data, and Social Simulation
Computational social science (CSS) is the interdisciplinary field that applies computational methods — agent-based modeling, social network analysis, natural language processing, machine learning, simulation, and large-s
ZD_4_06 — Mathematical Sociology and Network Analysis
Mathematical sociology applies formal mathematical models — graph theory, probability, game theory, dynamical systems, and statistical mechanics — to understand social structures, collective behavior, and institutional d
V_3_02 — Graph Theory & Network Mathematics
Graph theory — the mathematics of networks, connections, and relationships — began with Euler's Königsberg bridge problem (1736) and has become one of the most broadly applicable branches of mathematics, with direct rele
ZB_5_17 — Constructal Law & Flow Architecture: Why Nature Branches the Way It Does
Most fractal descriptions of nature are descriptive: they observe that rivers branch like blood vessels, blood vessels branch like trees, trees branch like lightning bolts, and lightning bolts branch like river deltas. A
ZC_3_02 — Sociology of Science and Knowledge
Sociology of knowledge examines how social conditions shape what counts as knowledge. Karl Mannheim (Ideology and Utopia, 1929/1936) argued that thought is "existentially determined" — shaped by the thinker's social posi
ZD_5_01 — Graph Theory and Algorithms
Graph theory — the mathematical study of graphs (networks of vertices/nodes connected by edges/links) — is one of the most widely applicable branches of mathematics, modeling everything from social networks and transport
U_1_07 — Music and Social Movements
Music and social movements have been inseparable throughout history — music serves as a vehicle for collective identity, emotional mobilization, coded communication, and cultural memory in struggles for justice, labor ri
W_5_25 — Silk Road & Ancient Trade Networks
The Silk Road — a term coined by German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen in 1877 (Seidenstraße) — refers to the interconnected network of overland and maritime trade routes linking China, Central Asia, the Indian subc
C_1_14 — Dumézil's Trifunctional Hypothesis: Indo-European Social Structure in Myth
Georges Dumézil (1898–1986) was a French comparative mythologist and philologist who proposed that the mythologies, religions, and social institutions of Indo-European-speaking peoples share a common tripartite ideologic
K_4_13 — Mirror Neurons and Social Cognition
Mirror neurons are a class of neurons, first discovered in the early 1990s in the premotor cortex (area F5) of macaque monkeys by Giacomo Rizzolatti, Vittorio Gallese, and colleagues at the University of Parma, that fire
K_2_11 — Default Mode Network: Brain at Rest and Self-Referential Consciousness
The Default Mode Network (DMN) is a large-scale brain network that is most active when a person is not focused on the external environment — during mind-wandering, daydreaming, self-referential thought, autobiographical
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