Networks, Diffusion, Brokerage & Segregation¶

Human Worlds

What you will develop¶

Map relational structure and explain how position changes information, opportunity, diffusion, and collective outcomes.

Before you begin¶

Recorded prerequisites:

• Social Evidence, Interpretation & Comparative Method
• Interaction, Identity, Norms & Influence
• Strategic Interaction, Bargaining & Cooperation

Study and practice¶

This is a study outline. A complete practice sequence is not yet available.

• ties
• centrality
• brokerage
• homophily
• clustering
• diffusion
• contagion
• threshold
• segregation

Network structure & centrality¶

Reconstruct the mechanism, apply it to an unseen case, produce a counterexample/boundary, identify evidence, and defend under changed assumptions.

Homophily, segregation & assortativity¶

Reconstruct the mechanism, apply it to an unseen case, produce a counterexample/boundary, identify evidence, and defend under changed assumptions.

Diffusion, contagion & thresholds¶

Reconstruct the mechanism, apply it to an unseen case, produce a counterexample/boundary, identify evidence, and defend under changed assumptions.

Brokerage, structural holes & bottlenecks¶

Reconstruct the mechanism, apply it to an unseen case, produce a counterexample/boundary, identify evidence, and defend under changed assumptions.

Intended demonstration¶

Network map + diffusion prediction + causal critique

This describes the intended standard, not a validated assessment or a claim of mastery.

Reading options¶

Assigned readings, where available, appear in the practice sequence above. These additional recommendations are not all required reading.

• The Strength of Weak Ties

Continue¶

Connections above reflect recorded prerequisites, not a compulsory calendar.

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