Monday, May 25, 2020

Our Social Nature Makes Nearly Everything Contagious.

Spend time reading the research on networks, and no social phenomenon-from Bernie Sanders's appeal to young voters to crime to school performance to poverty-looks quite the same.

The complex bundle of lines in the route maps you find in the glossy magazines of large airlines are one kind of network map, with enormous implications for social networks right now; the virus can easily hitch a ride from China to, say, Cincinnati.

Voting is a norm within many social networks; some will lie about having voted, just to avoid disapproval.

The right social network can create a kind of herd immunity to outlier behavior.

Especially in a large, mobile society like ours, individuals thrive by being embedded in a variety of social networks.

While dense networks hold members in a reassuringly tight embrace, it's weak ties that provide a bridge to a social world beyond.

Social networks can't lead us to any ultimate Grand Theory of Human Social Behavior.

https://www.city-journal.org/social-network-theory

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