NDLI: Leaving us in tiers: can homophily be used to generate tiering effects?

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Author	Hirshman, Brian R. Charles, Jesse Carley, Kathleen M.
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	Substantial evidence indicates that our social networks are divided into tiers in which people have a few very close social support group, a larger set of friends, and a much larger number of relatively distant acquaintances. Because homophily—the principle that like seeks like—has been suggested as a mechanism by which people interact, it may also provide a mechanism that generates such frequencies and distributions. However, our multi-agent simulation tool, Construct, suggests that a slight supplement to a knowledge homophily model—the inclusion of several highly salient personal facts that are infrequently shared—can more successfully lead to the tiering behavior often observed in human networks than a simplistic homophily model. Our findings imply that homophily on both general and personal facts is necessary in order to achieve realistic frequencies of interaction and distributions of interaction partners. Implications of the model are discussed, and recommendations are provided for simulation designers seeking to use homophily models to explain human interaction patterns.
Starting Page	318
Ending Page	343
Page Count	26
File Format	PDF
ISSN	1381298X
Journal	Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory
Volume Number	17
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15729346
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2011-05-10
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Homophily Social group size Tiering Agent-based simulation Dynamic network analysis Management/Business for Professionals Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Operations Research/Decision Theory Methodology of the Social Sciences Sociology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Applied Mathematics Computer Science Decision Sciences Computational Mathematics Modeling and Simulation

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