Acquaintance networks between racial groups: Application of the small world method.

Korte, Charles; Milgram, Stanley

doi:10.1037/h0029198

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“…HSP's play an important role in community networks: In the classic studies by Stanley Milgram on the acquaintanceship chains, most of the brokers between ethnic communities were those with a professional role (Korte & Milgram, 1970;see also, Maya Jariego, 2003b). …”

Section: Study 2: the Acculturation Of Integrative Bridges Who Work Wmentioning

confidence: 99%

Acculturation of Host Individuals: Immigrants and Personal Networks

Dómínguez

Jariego

2008

American J of Comm Psychol

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There has been a vast amount of research on the changes experienced by immigrants, but little is known about the changes experienced by host individuals. This article focuses on the role of host individuals in the networks of relations between immigrant populations and the communities from the dominant culture, as well as the changes experienced by host individuals because of the continuous contact with immigrants. This research applied a network approach to the study of the acculturation of host individuals. Two independent studies were carried out: a systematic analysis of the personal networks of Argentinean (n = 67), Ecuadorian (n = 59), Italian (n = 37) and German (n = 37) residents in Seville and Cadiz The results show that host individuals tend to have less centrality than compatriots, showing an overall secondary role in the personal networks of immigrants. The lowest average centrality was observed in recent and temporal migrants, whereas the highest corresponded to the individuals with more time of residence in Spain. The personal networks of human service providers in USA vary in ethnic composition and in their structural properties, and therefore shape different types of integrative bridges for immigrants.

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Section: Study 2: the Acculturation Of Integrative Bridges Who Work Wmentioning

confidence: 99%

Acculturation of Host Individuals: Immigrants and Personal Networks

Dómínguez

Jariego

2008

American J of Comm Psychol

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“…(2.5), that depends at most logarithmically on the network size N [5,28]. This property was first investigated, in the social context, by Milgram in the 1960s in a series of experiments to estimate the actual number of steps in a chain of acquaintances [18,[89][90][91].…”

Section: The Small-world Propertymentioning

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Complex networks: Structure and dynamics

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Coupled biological and chemical systems, neural networks, social interacting species, the Internet and the World Wide Web, are only a few examples of systems composed by a large number of highly interconnected dynamical units. The first approach to capture the global properties of such systems is to model them as graphs whose nodes represent the dynamical units, and whose links stand for the interactions between them. On the one hand, scientists have to cope with structural issues, such as characterizing the topology of a complex wiring architecture, revealing the unifying principles that are at the basis of real networks, and developing models to mimic the growth of a network and reproduce its structural properties. On the other hand, many relevant questions arise when studying complex networks' dynamics, such as learning how a large ensemble of dynamical systems that interact through a complex wiring topology can behave collectively. We review the major concepts and results recently achieved in the study of the structure and dynamics of complex networks, and summarize the relevant applications of these ideas in many different disciplines, ranging from nonlinear science to biology, from statistical mechanics to medicine and engineering.

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“…He labeled this situation "six degrees of separation" (Guare 1990), a phrase which since then has passed into popular folklore. Although the experiment certainly contained many possible sources of error, the general result that two randomly chosen persons can be connected by a short chain of intermediate acquaintances has been subsequently verified, and it is now widely accepted Korte and Milgram 1970).…”

Section: Shortest Path Length Diameter and Betweennessmentioning

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Temporal Patterns of Communication in Social Networks

Miritello¹

2013

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Acquaintance networks between racial groups: Application of the small world method.

Cited by 203 publications

References 2 publications

Acculturation of Host Individuals: Immigrants and Personal Networks

Acculturation of Host Individuals: Immigrants and Personal Networks

Complex networks: Structure and dynamics

Temporal Patterns of Communication in Social Networks

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