Who is in favour of bringing Roman numerals back into use?
I for one!
Housekeeping
Who Dunnit game on Thursday!
Final Project
Group project: network-based intervention (e.g., spreading an idea on campus)
(Group?) research project: analysis of network data
Project idea due in 2 weeks
R Review
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ggraph(layout='kk') +
geom_edge_fan(width=.5, color='#CFB991') +
geom_node_point()
What does the + do?
What does the |> do?
What does layout='kk' do?
What does width=.5 do?
Reading Questions
What is a weak tie?
What is the argument for why weak ties are better for finding information?
What are strong ties better for?
How does a network of strong ties look different from a network with weak ties?
Reading Questions
What is capital?
What is economic capital?
What is cultural capital?
What is social capital?
Break!
Reading Questions
We can exchange forms of capital for goods, services, or for other kinds of capital.
What’s an example of exchanging cultural capital for social capital and vice versa?
What’s an example of exchanging social capital for economic capital and vice versa?
What’s an example of exchanging economic capital for cultural capital and vice versa?
Criticism
What aspects of the concept of capital and social capital ring true to you? What feels like it is missing from this theory?
Discussion Questions
How can we measure the strength of ties?
When are strong ties better for finding information?
Do the different types of capital have to be self-reinforcing?
Should outcomes like career success be understood as purely individual achievement, structural advantage, a combination of both, or something else entirely?
Do online communities fulfill the same roles as bowling leagues, etc? How are they better and worse?
Discussion Questions
How does declining social capital weaken democracy?
What does it mean that social capital does not function as a universal means of exchange?
Have you ever had an interaction/relationship with somewhere where it was clear they were trying to be a “social climber”, how did that interaction make you feel? What are some good examples and bad examples of how social climbing could happen?
Are elite universities selling cultural capital or social capital?
Is a community people who agree with each other or people who need each other?