Research Methods…

The purpose of my dissertation will be to observe incoming "traditional freshmen" (e.g. 18- to-20 year old students coming to college for the first time) at three Midwestern universities whose hometowns are small towns, where the population is less than 5,000 residents, and see how those freshmen use Facebook as...

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Visual Representation of Networks

Social relations have often been developed in this model as a version of a mathematical theory that focuses on "a set of localically interconnected tautologies" with no real application towards "the theory of social relations" (Barnes, 1972, 5). This had led to a matrix-focused approach to the study of a given...

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Social Networks

Barnes expands on what he refers to as an "orienting statement" to explore social network beyond the metaphor established by sociologists and anthropologists. He chooses to adapt Bott's view of social network as a means of understanding "how the internal functioning of a group is affected not only by its...

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