SOC102H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Barry Wellman, Cultural Capital, Pierre Bourdieu
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The ow of human life - through di usion, migration, mobility and renewal - helps explain the reproduction of social inequality in a given society and across the globe. There are at least two main patterns in this eld of study. Looks at pattern of interconnections between people (or organisations) through which units (i. e. ; information, support, money) are owing. Directed at measuring structural characteristics (i. e. ; network size, centrality, density, and heterogeneity) Identi es four central tenets of the social network paradigm: Focuses on ties between individuals, rather than on an actor"s attributes or characteristics. Relies on systematic empirical data, rather than deductive assertions. Uses models mainly mathematical or computational rather than verbal. Position within a social network that has the shortest path to all others. Is in direct contact with more people than any other members of network.
