Synonyms
Assortative behavior; Community detection; Community structure; Demographic structure; Ethno-racial discrimination; Homophily; Socioeconomic stratification
Glossary
- Community (in Network Analysis):
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A subnetwork within a larger network that presents a significantly higher density of internal links (within links) than external ones (between links)
- Demography:
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The study of population characteristics and dynamics (births, deaths, gender, age, geographic distribution, and movement)
- DES:
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Demographic, ethnic, and socioeconomic structure
- Ethnicity:
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Real or putative common ancestry, memories of a shared past, and a cultural focus upon one or more symbolic elements which define a group’s identity, such as kinship, religion, language, shared territory, nationality, or physical appearance (Bulmer 1996)
- Homophily:
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Literally “love of the same.” In social studies is the tendency of individuals to relate with similar others
Definition
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Bisgin H, Agarwal N, Xu X (2010) Investigating homophily in online social networks. In: 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on web intelligence and intelligent agent technology, IEEE, Toronto, Aug 2010, pp 533–536. Available: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=5616320
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Mateos, P. (2017). Demographic, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Community Structure in Social Networks. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_224-1
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