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Readings for presentation and discussion in class

Below, the list of reading for the class is provided. You are supposed to read all these articles to be able to discuss them and class and answer questions on them. Once, in a group of 3-4 students, you need to make a presentation on the chosen article in class. These articles are provided in your folder in Yandex Disk.

  • 29.01 - Personal ties and social support- Wellman, B., & Wortley, S. (1990). Different strokes from different folks: Community ties and social support. American journal of Sociology, 96(3), 558-588.
  • 05.02 - Strength of weak ties and social embeddedness - Granovetter, M. (1983). The strength of weak ties: A network theory revisited. Sociological theory, 201-233.
  • 19.02 - Social capital of structural holes - Burt, R. S. (2004). Structural holes and good ideas. American journal of sociology, 110(2), 349-399, and Coleman, J. S. (1988). Social capital in the creation of human capital. American journal of sociology, 94, S95-S120.
  • 26.02 - Small-world phenomenon and "rich get richer effect" - Merton, R. K. (1968).The Matthew Effect in Science. Science, 159(3810), 56–63 and Brian Uzzi, Jarrett Spiro (2005). Collaboration and creativity: The small world problem American journal of sociology 111 (2), 447-504.
  • 05.03 - Information Diffusion in social networks - Centola, D., & Macy, M. (2007). Complex contagions and the weakness of long ties. American journal of Sociology, 113(3), 702-734.
  • 05.03 - Global network structures - Borgatti, S. P., & Everett, M. G. (2000). Models of Core/Periphery Structures. Social Networks, 21(4), 375–395.

Additional reading

for those who didn't present any article in class.

Please visit the web-site of the Social Networks Journal. This is a leading journal in the sphere of social network analysis.

  1. On the main page, look at the Top cited / Most downloaded / Most popular articles.
  2. Select the article for reading.
  3. Prepare a presentation on this article, similar to those which were presented by your classmates (you can have a look at the examples in "2025_SNA_Students folder\Presentations"). In presentation, include 2 additional slides to the slides describing article's content -- 1 slide with explanation of the choice of the article, and 1 slide with some reflection from you about this article.
  4. Send you presentation to me till March 18, 23.59 via email [email protected].

I will have to grade the presentations with the 0.8 coefficient.