W10. Social Network

1. Summary

Social network is a kind of social structure, an important theoretical structure for studying social relationships by interaction, such as individuals or groups. The occurrence of human or group interaction is not simply contacted by one factor or individual factor, but because it is accompanied by a group-like group or various social contacts, social network theory is applied to various fields such as anthropology and communication theory.

Various levels of analysis are required when analyzing social networks. Because, when analyzing social networks, consistent patterns appear around the world in regional interactions, but as the size of those regional interactions gradually grows, there is the amount of information lost. It is divided into micro-level, micro-level, and macro-level. The micro-level is the lowest level, and can study individual or kinship analysis, social psychology, etc. At the smile level, it is an intermediate level that connects between the micro-level and macro-level, and can analyze the bonds, etc. between tissues. Macro levels can analyze economic or interaction of many people with many people.

In addition, structural holes are a very important factor in the context of social networks. Structural holes are said to be duplicated where there are strong links that exist to obtain members' trust, institutions and norms, and there are homogeneous information between two groups, if two different groups have non-redundant information, there are structural holes. These structural holes make the network like ivy and provide more information. Also, it expresses creativity. Also, a man with many structural holes said Mill, by filling this up, could build a better human career by mobilizing social capital and creating new opportunities.

 2. Interesting Point

 The part about the structural hole was interesting. Because we have a lot of overlapping information, we have established the process of finding new information as a sociological theory.

 3. Discussion

 Can you think of another example of Structural hole?

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