SOC 3332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: International Tropical Timber Organization, Acupuncture, Damin

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3332
• Professor: Ariel Fuenzalida

Document Summary

Lecture 5; it"s a small world - the 6 degrees thesis. Network idea that says regardless of how many people there are, there is an actual structure that will link you to someone. On average, you"re six lengths away from that person. The idea that you can find a path out of all the possibility in the world. Regardless of how many people there are in the world, its possible to find a path that will lead you to any other person in the world and this is done on average in. We are all linked by short paths of acquaintances. Could be more, could be less, but definitely less than 10. We can find these short paths by following specific links. Basic statement about the abundance about short paths in a graph of a network. In order to trace out short paths through the social network if the us,