SOC294H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Homophily, Betweenness Centrality, Centrality
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In-degree and out-degree: out-degree going from one person to others outwards, sending connections out. In-degree, the ones that receive in those connections. Whatever out-degree says they know someone, that someone is an in-degree as you receive connections. If we have clear arrows we have in-degree or out degree: liz is the most powerful as a gate keeper, but she is also in a bubble. Centrality: what happens if the blue person dies, the person in the blue is gonna reap the most awards, as the central. A node is central to the extent that its neighbors are central. (score proportional to the scores of the nodes it is connected to: professor use"s indegree centrality since he hasn"t been able to interview everyone. Brokerage: a broker connects disconnected networks to each other, usually on the fringes of the networks, on the social group for social networking people, the number 1 post is about job opportunities.
