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The navigability of strong ties: Small worlds, tie strength, and network topology

Year: 2002

Type: article

Abstract: We examine data on and models of small world properties and parameters of social networks. Our focus, on tie-strength, multilevel networks and searchability in strong-tie social networks, allows us to extend some of the questions and findings of recent research and the fit of small world models to sociological and anthropological data on human communities. We offer a "navigability of strong ties" hypothesis about network topologies tested with data from kinship systems, and potentially applicable to corporate cultures and business networks.

Source: Complexity

DOI: 10.1002/cplx.10053

Authors: Douglas R. White, Michael Houseman

Institutions: University of Minnesota, University of Pittsburgh, University of California, Irvine, University of Michigan, Columbia University, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, École Pratique des Hautes Études

Language: English

Topic: Complex Network Analysis Techniques

Subfield: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Science Foundation

OpenAlex ID: W2074126609

FWCI: 2.906

Cites: 55

Cited by: 99

Related to: 10