SOC 3040 - [Social Networks and Social Processes]

(SBA-AS)

Fall. 4 credits.

Next offered 2012–2013.

D. Strang.

Why do groups self-segregate? What leads fashions to rise and fall? Why do your friends have more friends than you? How do rumors spread? How do communities form and police themselves on the Internet? This course examines these kinds of issues through the study of fundamental network processes such as exchange, diffusion, and group formation. We focus on models that can be explored through computer simulation and improved through observation.