Duncan Watts’ book Six Degrees described a model of these entities he made with Steven Strogatz that shows low average path length and high clustering. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these tools used by sociologists. In these tools, people are represented as nodes linked by ties.
ANSWER: social networks
[10h] A 2001 paper by Miller McPherson, Lynn Smith-Lovin, and James M. Cook models this social phenomenon, in which people cluster together in their networks primarily with people who are similar to them.
ANSWER: homophily
[10m] Homophily and weak ties create a network named for this experiment in that model by Watts and Strogatz. In this experiment, people forwarded letters from Midwestern cities to Sharon, Massachusetts.
ANSWER: small world experiment
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, Social Science>