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Consensus
Social Solidarity (See Mechanical & Organic)
Collective Conscience
Anomie
The 4 types of Suicide |
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| (Durkheim) A group shares the same roots and each person performs the same rituals (circles each have ABCDE) |
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| (Durkheim) Each person in the society performs a specific role (A,B,C,D,E each in it's own circle) |
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| (Durkheim) The consensus of moral beliefs held by a tightly knit group of individuals |
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| (Durkheim) A feeling of worthlessness in social situations (people experiencing anomie are usually more peripheral) |
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"I hate myself, so i will kill myself"
Too little social integration |
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"Nobody likes me, so i'll kill myself"
Too little social integration |
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"I'm killing myself for the greater good (of cult x)"
Too much social integration |
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"There is no hope left, so I'll kill myself" (in jonestown these would be people who committed suicide after seeing that their children were already dead)
Too much social integration |
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Conflict
Class conflict between the Proliteriat and Bourgeoisie
Wealth & Property are the sources of power for a person |
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| consists of all the ties in a group or collection of groups, which evolve from our tendencies to make many or few friends. |
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| is a group of people within the network who are much more connected to one another than they are to other groups of connected people. (SUCH AS A MILITARY SQUAD) |
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| A person with more social ties to other well connected individuals is said to be more "central" while a person with less connected friends is said to be more "Peripheral" |
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| The simplest network (2 connected nodes) |
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| is the tendency of an effect to spread from one person to their DIRECT social ties |
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| refers to the tendency for an effect to spread from one person to person to person, Outside the initial's Direct ties. |
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| A person decides how many people they are connected to. Have a few friends or many? |
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| We influence connections to people who might not have known eachother without us (such as introducing family to friends) |
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| We decide how Peripheral or central we are in the network |
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A relationship is transitive when all those involved know eachother (form a triangle)
High Transitivity- deeply embedded in one group
Low Transitivity- friends with people from lots of different groups, acting as a bridge |
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| Both refer to a network's Shape |
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| Milgram's Sidewalk Experiment |
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Passersby were influenced to copy a behavior by the size of the group exhibiting it.
Group of 1- 4%
Group of 15- 40% (glances up for both) |
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| Are properties that a group has when connected that the individual did not have before. such as a cake altogether tastes like a cake, but none of the ingredients alone tastes like a cake |
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| Discovered by Milgram's letter experement; on average it took 6 people before the letter reached it's initial destination |
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| The influence of actions ripples through 3 degrees (our friends' friends' friends) before the effect is halted. |
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| Why does the effect dissipate after 3 degrees? |
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1) Intrinsic Decay: The info is corrupted
2) Network Instability: no reliable ties after 4 degrees
3) Evolutionary- We evolved in groups of 3 or less |
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| Are most Prevalent in networks with High Transitivity, Affect women more than men. |
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| Pure-Anxiety Mass Psychogenic Illness |
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| Involves physical symptoms (such as fainting) and a person to person spread of an emotional state (such as hysteria) |
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| Motor Mass Psychogenic Illness |
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| Involves an involuntary movement like dancing or laughing that spread from person to person |
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| Affective Afference or The Facial Recognition Theory |
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| The notion that people imitate the facial expressions of others in an attempt to feel like them. |
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| Our brains practice copying others constantly |
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| Studying Emotional Spread |
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| The strongest path was from daughter to parents, but not vice versa. Fathers' emotions affected wives and sons but not daughters. |
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| Experience Sampling Method |
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| A beeper or something reminds people to report their emotions every x amount of time so we can study people's emotions |
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| Happy/unhappy people cluster with other happy/unhappy people and unhappy people tend to be more peripheral. Connect yourself to more happy people to be happier. |
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| cus it'll make you happier! but being happy doesn't influence you to widen your circle |
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| 50% genetics, 40% Choices of Thoughs & actions, 10% on circumstances |
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| is the discrepancy between the connections we have and the connections we desire. it can spread just like happiness |
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1. Lust
2. True Love
3. Attachment (like parent & child) |
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| People care more about their relative standing than their Absolute standing |
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| the tendency for people to marry someone like themselves. this occurs in about 72% of marriages |
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| Robert Merton on Reference Groups |
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Reference groups (or the networks that we are embedded in) Can affect us as follows:
Comparative effects: How we or others evaluate ourselves
Influence effects: The way others dictate our behaviors and attitudes.
Example: having unattractive social contacts makes us feel better about ourselves (Comparative effect) but it might also make us take worse care of ourselves (Influence effect) |
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| Adds 7 years to a man's life and 2 years to a woman's |
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| Social networks influence relationships |
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1. Our position in the network can affect how attractive we are to other people
2. The network spreads ideas and values that can change our views on what is attractive |
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| is the tendency to have many different kinds of relationships with the people around you |
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| Milgram's shock experiment |
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65% went all the way! this helps us find out that...
People are motivated by conformity
people can see themselves as Instruments of another's will, as in "I cant be held accountable cus someone told me to do it" |
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| the more attractive the avatar, the more confidence you have |
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| the "Wired" residents were much more connected than the residents without internet access |
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| Social Structure like law or economy |
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| "One who has the power to act" |
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| the notion that your social network helps to bring you to the person you will marry |
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