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On Stickers and Communicative Fluidity in Social Media [PDF]
Social Media + Society, 2015 Social media platforms provide the key affordance of “communicative fluidity”, where communication can be more seamless because of the multiple channels users can tap to express themselves.
Sun Sun Lim
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Social fluidity mobilizes contagion in human and animal populations [PDF]
eLife, 2021 Humans and other group-living animals tend to distribute their social effort disproportionately. Individuals predominantly interact with a small number of close companions while maintaining weaker social bonds with less familiar group members.
Ewan Colman +4 more
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Education and Social Fluidity: A Reweighting Approach [PDF]
Sociological Science, 2022 Although sociologists have devoted considerable attention to studying the role of education in intergenerational social class mobility using log-linear models for contingency tables, indings in this literature are not free from rescaling or non ...
Kristian Bernt Karlson
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Stability and increasing fluidity in the contemporary Japanese social stratification system [PDF]
Contemporary Japan, 2010 We argue that stability and increasing fluidity coexist in the contemporary Japanese social stratification system.
Yoshimichi Sato
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Social Interactions, Network Fluidity and Network Effects [PDF]
, 2008 This paper asks how much the strength of network effects depends on the stability and structure of the underlying social network. I answer this using extensive micro-data on all potential adopters of a firm's internal video-messaging system and their subsequent video-messaging.
Catherine E. Tucker
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Racism in the “colony”: Towards appreciating race fluidity and racialization in social psychology of racism [PDF]
Social and Personality Psychology CompassAbstract Race is a significant means through which individuals and groups relate to each other. A problematic instance of its significance is colonialism and all the destruction it brought with it. In this paper, I explore how knowledge about race and racism from settings that were erstwhile colonized can enrich current understandings
Rahul Sambaraju
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Modernization and Social Fluidity in Hungary, 1870–1950 [PDF]
European Sociological Review, 2014 This article addresses how modernization processes influenced social openness in Hungarian municipalities between 1870 and 1950. Our focus is on relative occupational mobility, which reflects the underlying pattern of inequalities in attaining class positions. We derive hypotheses from the 'theory of industrialization' on the association between social
Zoltán Lippényi +2 more
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Intermediate Levels of Network Fluidity Amplify Economic Growth and Mitigate Economic Inequality in Experimental Social Networks [PDF]
Sociological Science, 2015 Social connections are mutable. Prior experimental work has shown that circumstances fostering an intermediate rate of forming and breaking social ties (“network fluidity”) facilitate the maintenance of optimal levels of cooperation in experimental ...
Akihiro Nishi +2 more
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The Pattern of Social Fluidity within the British Class Structure: A Topological Model [PDF]
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 2016 Summary It has previously been shown that, across three British birth cohorts, relative rates of intergenerational social class mobility have remained at an essentially constant level among men and also among women who have worked only full time.
Erzsébet Bukodi +2 more
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Social fluidity mobilizes contagion in human and animal populations [PDF]
eLife, 2017 Humans and other group-living animals tend to distribute their social effort disproportionately. Individuals predominantly interact with a small number of close companions while maintaining weaker social bonds with less familiar group members. By incorporating this behaviour into a mathematical model we find that a single parameter, which we refer to ...
Ewan Colman +4 more
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