scholarly journals LIETUVOS STUDENTŲ SOCIALINIAI RYŠIAI: DIAGNOSTINIS TYRIMAS NAUDOJANT SOCIALINIO TINKLO MATRICĄ

Psichologija ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 32-46
Author(s):  
Dalia Antinienė ◽  
Viktorija Baršauskienė ◽  
Gediminas Merkys
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Value Theory ◽  
Personal Network ◽  
Network Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Diagnostic Research ◽  
Definition Of

Straipsnyje pateikti Lietuvos studentų socialinio tinklo empirinio tyrimo duomenys. Tyrimo priemonė yra socialinio tinklo matrica (7X5). Tai 7 socialinio tinklo subjektai: tėvai, broliai, sutuoktiniai, draugai, giminaičiai, kaimynai, bendramoksliai ir 5 socialinio tinklo funkcijos: finansinė pagalba, pastogės suteikimas, emocinė ir kt. pagalba. Remiantis MDS modeliu ir kitais rodikliais pateikti kai kurie tinklo matricos konstrukcinio validumo argumentai. Konstatuotas asimetriškai ryškus finansinės pagalbos funkcijos vyravimas. Empiriškai nustatyta tinklo struktūra traktuojama kaip kultūriškai specifiška ir ją bandoma interpretuoti modernizacijos sąvokos ir materialių bei postmaterialių vertybių teorijos kontekste. Formuluojamos konkrečios hipotezės, reikalaujančios detalesnių tarpkultųrinių tyrimų.  SOCIAL TIES OF LITHUANIAN STUDENTS: A DIAGNOSTIC RESEARCH, USING “THE MATRIX OF A SOCIAL NETWORK”Dalia Antinienė, Viktorija Baršauskienė, Gediminas Merkys SummaryThe given article analyses the definition of a social network and its treatment, discusses the tradition of empirical research, schools, as well as several contemporary studies. It also reveals the functional (applied) significance of social network research and conceptions.At present the social network has been analysed on different levels: individual, group, community, etc. However, the preferred methods are the ones that mark the individual’s establishment in the social structure, as well as the formation of this structure from separate micro-ties. Consequently, the research prioritizes egocantered (personal) network that is oriented towards a separate individual, or an ‘individual – individual’ relationship.Different scientists, especially in the West, carry out numerous social network research exploiting various methodologies. According to the authors of this article, diagnostic social network research is considered to be most advanced. Subsequently, one of research objectives was to initiate the modelling of a more reliable, valid, and economical instrument that would allow an overall evaluation of a definite person or group social network.The article presents the data of the Lithuanian students’ social network empirical research. The research instrument is the social network matrix that is comprised of 35 items. The answer table was filled in by 305 young adults at different Lithuanian universities, colleges, and higher educational institutions. The matrix involves 7 social network subjects, namely, parents, siblings, spouses, friends, relatives, neighbours, schoolmates, and 5 social network functions, such as financial support, accommodation, emotional (or similar) support. Two structures of the social network were revealed in this research. These are the close medium, involving parents, spouses, siblings, and friends, and the distant medium, involving schoolmates, neighbours, and relatives. Based on the Multi-Dimensional Scaling model, as well as on the other indices, the article presents several arguments for the matrix constructional validity. The asymmetrically marked domineering of the financial support function is evident. It might be explained in the terms of specificity of the student population, or the social and economic conditions in Lithuania. Empirically defined network structure is treated as culturally specific, and is tried to be interpreted in the context of materialistic and post-materialistic value theory and modernization concept. There emerged particular hypotheses that require more detailed cross-cultural studies.After the norming base has been supplied, the method of the social network matrix could be treated as an independent diagnostic instrument in the future. For this reason the authors of this article are ready to provide all interested researchers with the informatikon necessary for norming and correct intercultural comparison.

scholarly journals The Geek-Culture as the New Youth Sociocultural Phenomenon of Contemporary Russian Society

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 114-118
Author(s):  
I. A. Vladimirov
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Empirical Base ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Constituent Elements

The article presents the results of the analysis of geek-culture as a youth sociocultural phenomenon of contemporary Russian society. The author paid special attention to the ideas of Alvin Toffler, who revealed the trend of fragmentation of society into mini-cultures that eventually turn into subcultures. New modern subcultural associations do not try to isolate themselves from the universal cultural space. They seek to integrate into the world cultural space. The result is the formation of super-subcultures. One of such supersubcultures is the geek-culture, which is actively developing both in Western and Russian societies. The empirical base of the study was the results of B. Sattles’ research, based on data of the social network “Twitter”. The author paid attention to social and journalistic interpretation of this phenomenon. The peculiarity of the work is the author’s definition of geek-culture and specification of its key constituent elements, based on empirical research.

scholarly journals Determining the proximity of groups in social networks based on text analysis using big data

2019 ◽  
pp. 521-526
Author(s):  
A S Mukhin ◽  
I A Rytsarev ◽  
R A Paringer ◽  
A V Kupriyanov ◽  
D V Kirsh
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Software Tool ◽  
Text Data ◽  
The Social ◽  
Information Research ◽  
Definition Of

The article is devoted to the definition of such groups in social networks. The object of the study was selected data social network Vk. Text data was collected, processed and analyzed. To solve the problem of obtaining the necessary information, research was conducted in the field of optimization of data collection of the social network Vk. A software tool that provides the collection and subsequent processing of the necessary data from the specified resources has been developed. The existing algorithms of text analysis, mainly of large volume, were investigated and applied.

scholarly journals Social Sciences, Complexity and Sociology of the Present in Edgar Morin

2019 ◽  
pp. 41-52
Author(s):  
Alex Galeno ◽  
Fagner Torres de França
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Open Method ◽  
Complex Thinking ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Narrative Ability ◽  
Epistemological Basis

The article intends to revisit the contribution of the french thinker Edgar Morin (1921-) to the construction of a plural and open method of research in Social Sciences. We will have as theoretical-epistemological basis the sociology of the present, an approach of social phenomena developed by the author during three decades, from the 1940s to the 1970s, constituting the matrix of complex thinking. The present work defends the idea that the central categories of the present sociology, such as phenomenon, crisis and event, as well as the so-called living method of empirical research are still fundamental today in the sense of proposing an opening of the social sciences to phenomena increasingly more complex and multidimensional. This presupposes the researcher's subjective and objective engagement, narrative ability, and sensitivity to grasp revealing detail.

Interactions Between Formal and Informal Organizational Networks

2009 ◽  
pp. 480-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Lamieri ◽  
Diana Mangalagiu
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Hierarchical Structure ◽  
Stable Process ◽  
Hierarchical Structures ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Variable Environment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Definition Of

In this chapter we present a model of organization aimed to understand the effect of formal and informal structures on the organization’s performance. The model considers the interplay between the formal hierarchical structure and the social network connecting informally the agents emerging while the organization performs a task-set. The social network creation and evolution is endogenous, as it doesn’t include any function supposed to optimize performance. After a review of the literature, we propose a definition of performance based on the efficiency in allocating the task of a simulated organization that can be considered as a network-based problem-solving system. We analyze how the emergence of a stable process in decomposing tasks under different market conditions can alleviate the rigidity and the inefficiencies of a hierarchical structure and we compare the performance of different hierarchical structures under variable environment conditions.

Introduction: The Social Network Research Paradigm

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard H. Needle ◽  
Susan L. Coyle ◽  
Sander G. Genser ◽  
Robert T. Trotter
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
Network Research ◽  
The Social

CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF THE SOCIAL SPHERE

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-21
Author(s):  
I.Yu. Fedorova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Market Economic ◽  
The Social ◽  
Definition Of

The article presents the basic conceptual approaches to the interpretation of the definition of the social sphere and the mechanism of its financial support, gives the views of Russian and foreign scientists on the nature and content of the studied economic category, considers the existing problems in solving social issues in the conditions of market economic relations, models and features of financial The social security mechanism used in Russia and abroad assesses the role of the social sphere in the development of the economy.

Scholarly Influence Research (SIR)

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hirotoshi Takeda ◽  
Duane P. Truex ◽  
Michael J. Cuellar ◽  
Richard Vidgen
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scholarly Influence ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Publication Counts ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Ideational Influence

Following previous research findings, this paper argues that the currently predominant method of evaluating scholar performance - publication counts in “quality” journals - is flawed due to the subjectivity inherent in the generation of the list of approved journals and absence of a definition of quality. Truex, Cuellar, and Takeda (2009) improved on this method by substituting a measurement of “influence” using the Hirsch statistics to measure ideational influence. Since the h-family statistics are a measure of productivity and the uptake of a scholar’s ideas expressed in publications, this methodology privileges the uptake of a scholar’s ideas over the venue of publication. Influence is built through other means than by having one’s papers read and cited. The interaction between scholars resulting in co-authored papers is another way to build scholarly influence. This aspect of scholarly influence, which the authors term social influence, can be assessed by Social Network Analysis (SNA) metrics that examine the nature and strength of coauthoring networks among IS Scholars. The paper demonstrates the method of assessing social influence by analysis of the social network of AMCIS scholars and compares the results of this analysis with other co-authorship networks from the ECIS and ICIS communities.

scholarly journals Facebook groups as a tool in high education

2020 ◽  
pp. 31-43
Author(s):  
Nikola Dojčinović
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
High Education ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Educational Tools ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Key Terms

The modern age is characterized by the Internet era, the rapid development of technology and new means of communication and education, including social networks. The aim of this paper is to examine the degree of utilization of Facebook in higher education by students, and educational tools within the network. The first part of the paper refers to definition of key terms in relation to the subject matter of the research, chapters on the social network Facebook in function of education and Facebook groups in education. This section also presents interpretations of previous researches, from published scientific papers and books, on the use of the Facebook social network in high education. The second part presents the research conducted for the purposes of this paper, which showed that a group of surveyed students from the Faculty of Philosophy in Niš use Facebook for educational purposes through Facebook groups. Finally, the results that led to the conclusion are summarized.

Social Therapy in Working with Children with Disabilities (On the Example of the Project «Family Co-creation Platform – Growing Together»)

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 75-82
Author(s):  
S.N. Ispulova ◽  
◽  
K.E. Nesterova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Social Therapy ◽  
Therapeutic Techniques ◽  
The Social ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
At Home

this article is devoted to the definition of the role of social therapy in working with children with disabilities. The article presents the results of a study conducted on the basis of the Metallurg Charitable Foundation during the implementation of the project “Platform for family Co-creation – Growing together”. Judging by the results of the survey, the volunteers are interested in this technology and its methods. Recommendations were developed for volunteers in the form of a database of therapeutic techniques in the social network “VKontakte”, which can be actively used not only by volunteers in the framework of this project, but also by parents of children with disabilities at home.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document