Social Networks最新文献

{"title":"Corruption dynamics in public procurement: A longitudinal network analysis of local construction contracts in Guatemala","authors":"Harald Waxenecker ,&nbsp;Christina Prell","doi":"10.1016/j.socnet.2024.07.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.socnet.2024.07.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Spending concentration, political influence, and collusion violate rules and principles of open and fair public procurement, leading to corrupt contract allocation. This study adopts stochastic actor-oriented models to test the evolution of these forms of procurement corruption risks in a longitudinal network study of 33579 construction contracts pertaining to Guatemalan local governments from 2012 to 2020. We identify a range of network configurations, based on past empirical research and theory, that capture different patterns of suspicious micro tendencies suggestive of corruption. We show how these micro tendencies shift in strength according to changes in electoral cycles and anti-corruption interventions, thus shedding light on how interventions may temporarily impact corrupt behavior, and how it may adapt and persist after a period of transition. The results indicate that collusion and spending concentration play significant roles in sustaining the risk of corrupt contract allocation, and that this behavior is able to rebound even after the introduction of anti-corruption interventions and new political regimes. The findings underscore the importance of local interventions and advocate for network approaches to enhance transparency, accountability, and long-term anti-corruption efforts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48353,"journal":{"name":"Social Networks","volume":"79 ","pages":"Pages 154-167"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037887332400039X/pdfft?md5=6c960b32370e4c6d80fbb5015fc5dd2d&pid=1-s2.0-S037887332400039X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141949965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Corrigendum to “How adolescents’ popularity perceptions change: Measuring interactions between popularity and friendship networks” [Soc. Netw. 78 (2024) 1462]","authors":"Ana Bravo ,&nbsp;Robert W. Krause ,&nbsp;Rosario Ortega-Ruiz ,&nbsp;Eva M. Romera","doi":"10.1016/j.socnet.2024.07.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.socnet.2024.07.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48353,"journal":{"name":"Social Networks","volume":"79 ","pages":"Page 153"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037887332400042X/pdfft?md5=bb0bceb57cd4d24d2974e35feee641ad&pid=1-s2.0-S037887332400042X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141952304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating disease surveillance strategies for early outbreak detection in contact networks with varying community structure","authors":"Axel Browne ,&nbsp;David Butts ,&nbsp;Edgar Jaramillo-Rodriguez ,&nbsp;Nidhi Parikh ,&nbsp;Geoffrey Fairchild ,&nbsp;Zach Needell ,&nbsp;Cristian Poliziani ,&nbsp;Tom Wenzel ,&nbsp;Timothy C. Germann ,&nbsp;Sara Del Valle","doi":"10.1016/j.socnet.2024.06.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2024.06.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Disease surveillance systems allow public health agencies to respond to emerging diseases before they become widespread. Developing such systems requires identifying optimal ways to monitor in the context of an epidemic outbreak; this problem is known as <em>sensor selection</em>. Contact networks represent the dynamics of interaction in a population and are used to model how a disease spreads in a population and to explore strategies of sensor selection. We evaluated five sensor selection strategies on their ability to provide an early warning of a COVID-like outbreak in synthetic contact networks encapsulated in four network scenarios. Three of these scenarios assessed different aspects of community structure. The fourth scenario employed a contact network representing the population and interactions of 6.8 million people in New York City, constructed from an agent-based simulation using census and transportation data. This scenario exemplifies how sensor selection strategies may perform in a real-world, urban context. Our findings suggest that the choice of the optimal strategy depends heavily on the community structure of the network. Strategies that select highly connected nodes or maximize network coverage are the optimal surveillance strategy for outbreak detection in many network community structures. However, a naive implementation of these strategies may fail to provide an early warning at all—including in the New York City scenario. Moreover, these methods are impractical for real-world use as they require knowledge of the underlying contact network. Instead, a selection strategy that starts with a set of random nodes and then performs a random walk through a chain of neighbors reliably provides early warnings without requiring prior knowledge of the network. We find this method, called “random chain”, to be the most pragmatic for implementation in a real-world disease surveillance context.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48353,"journal":{"name":"Social Networks","volume":"79 ","pages":"Pages 122-132"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378873324000364/pdfft?md5=fac337893b941443ddb1a4018c7151cf&pid=1-s2.0-S0378873324000364-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141596440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lifetime internal migration trajectories and social networks: Do repeat migrants fare worst?","authors":"Jing Wu ,&nbsp;Aude Bernard ,&nbsp;Elisabeth Gruber","doi":"10.1016/j.socnet.2024.06.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2024.06.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While the economic benefits of internal migration are widely documented, the social costs of internal migration have received comparatively less attention. In addition, most studies focus on the impact of the last-recorded migration, ignoring the cumulative impact of successive migrations. Grounded in the life-course trajectory approach to migration and the convoy model of social networks, this paper addresses this gap by applying sequence and cluster analysis to retrospective data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) in 26 European countries to establish internal migration trajectories based on the timing, frequency, and direction of migration between NUTS-2 regions. The results reveal that differences in social networks between lifetime stayers, childhood migrants and one-time adult migrants are minimal. A more complex picture emerges for repeat migrants who account for half migrants and are split between return migrants, serial onward migrants, and circular migrants. Regression results show that repeat migrants – whether onward, return, or circular – display social networks less focused on family and more geographically dispersed, which results in a lower frequency of contact than lifetime stayers. However, repeat migrants report the same level of overall satisfaction with their social networks as lifetime stayers, which suggests that they start with different expectations than stayers or simply adjust their expectations in response to the social costs and benefits of migration.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48353,"journal":{"name":"Social Networks","volume":"79 ","pages":"Pages 133-152"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378873324000388/pdfft?md5=2569460e86a66e816c3cf2f41de41b4c&pid=1-s2.0-S0378873324000388-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141596471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Too many options: How to identify coalitions in a policy network?","authors":"Thibaud Deguilhem ,&nbsp;Juliette Schlegel ,&nbsp;Jean-Philippe Berrou ,&nbsp;Ousmane Djibo ,&nbsp;Alain Piveteau","doi":"10.1016/j.socnet.2024.06.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2024.06.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>For different currents in policy analysis as policy networks and the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), identifying coalitions from policy beliefs and coordination between actors is crucial to a precise understanding of a policy process. Focusing particularly the relational dimension of ACF approaches linked with policy network analysis, determining policy subsystems from the actor collaborations and exchanges has recently begun offering fertile links with the network analysis. Studies in this way frequently apply Block Modeling and Community Detection (BMCD) strategies to define homogeneous political groups. However, the BMCD literature is growing quickly, using a wide variety of algorithms and interesting selection methods that are much more diverse than those used in the policy network analysis and particularly the ACF when this current focused on the collaboration networks before or after regarding the belief distance between actors. Identifying the best methodological option in a specific context can therefore be difficult and few ACF studies give an explicit justification. On the other hand, few BMCD publications offer a systematic comparison of real social networks and they are never applied to policy network datasets. This paper offers a new, relevant 5-Step selection method to reconcile advances in both the policy networks/ACF and BMCD. Using an application based on original African policy network data collected in Madagascar and Niger, we provide a useful set of practical recommendations for future ACF studies using policy network analysis: (i) the density and size of the policy network affect the identification process, (ii) the “best algorithm” can be rigorously determined by maximizing a novel indicator based on convergence and homogeneity between algorithm results, (iii) researchers need to be careful with missing data: they affect the results and imputation does not solve the problem.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48353,"journal":{"name":"Social Networks","volume":"79 ","pages":"Pages 104-121"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378873324000376/pdfft?md5=9cc9e36177be22beaa1b147abcdebbf8&pid=1-s2.0-S0378873324000376-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141596439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nonresponse in name generators across countries and survey modes","authors":"Ricardo González ,&nbsp;Esteban Muñoz ,&nbsp;Adolfo Fuentes","doi":"10.1016/j.socnet.2024.06.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2024.06.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Past research indicates interviewer effects lead to an underestimation of network size and higher nonresponse to the “important matters” name generator. Self-administered surveys offer a potential solution, but evidence is mixed and context-specific. We employ a logistic multilevel regression, estimated using a Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo approach, to analyze nonresponse to this name generator from 33 post-electoral surveys across 21 countries in the Comparative National Election Project. We find higher nonresponse in interviewer-administered surveys compared to self-administered surveys, particularly among specific demographic groups. Finally, we discuss the trade-offs in selecting survey modes for collecting ego-network data using this instrument.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48353,"journal":{"name":"Social Networks","volume":"79 ","pages":"Pages 93-103"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141540253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Categorical closure: Transitivity and identities in longitudinal networks","authors":"Chen-Shuo Hong ,&nbsp;Anthony Paik ,&nbsp;Swethaa Ballakrishnen ,&nbsp;Carole Silver ,&nbsp;Steven Boutcher","doi":"10.1016/j.socnet.2024.06.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2024.06.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This research examines whether categorical closure – an increased tendency for closure in homogeneous triads – matters for tie formation and tie persistence. We utilized 2019–2020 panel data on students’ networks at three law schools and employed separable temporal exponential random graph models to examine whether closed triads with shared identities were more likely to form and to persist over time. We also investigated whether closed triads based on shared organizational assignments were associated with lower likelihoods of tie formation and tie persistence over time. Results supported the notion that law students were more likely to form homogeneous closed triads based on shared categories, particularly family background, gender, and race, while closed triads based on organizational assignments were less likely. Closed triads tended to persist over time, but there was some support for the notion that homogeneous closed triads based on family background, college rank, and sexuality were more durable. This study highlights categorical closure as an additional network mechanism giving rise to homogenous groups.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48353,"journal":{"name":"Social Networks","volume":"79 ","pages":"Pages 76-92"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141540254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Coming into relations: How communication reveals and persuades relational decisions","authors":"Daniel A. McFarland ,&nbsp;David Broska ,&nbsp;Vinodkumar Prabhakaran ,&nbsp;Dan Jurafsky","doi":"10.1016/j.socnet.2024.05.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2024.05.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Coming into relations involves exiting a state of indecision and deciding whether to relate or not. Little research has focused on these initial moments, the communications involved, and the making of a relational decision. We study this process using 947 speed dating encounters, their minute-by-minute communications, and the reported timing of relational decisions. We show that certain forms of communication reveal an actor’s relational state of being undecided, desiring a relation, or not desiring a relation (<em>revealing signals</em>). For example, indecision corresponds with indirect and ambiguous communication (negative facework); desiring a relation entails positive, excited, and entraining communication (positive facework); and not desiring a relation involves routine talk. We also show that certain forms of communication persuade persons to transition relational states, moving beyond their indecision and coming to a relational decision (<em>persuasive signals</em>). Interestingly, only some revealing signals are persuasive and bring about corresponding relational decisions in others. These tend to be <em>clear signals</em> that cannot be attributed to the situation or politeness. Last, some signals persuade relational decisions without corresponding to a relational state. These <em>performative signals</em> are select forms of ambiguous communication that place the speaker in an advantaged position within social exchange.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48353,"journal":{"name":"Social Networks","volume":"79 ","pages":"Pages 57-75"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141423370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Choosing isolation in the face of stigma: Relational work in tie severance among Korean unwed mothers","authors":"Juhwan Seo","doi":"10.1016/j.socnet.2024.06.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2024.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Though network scholars long have observed that people experience high rates of network turnover, theorization on <em>how</em> ties dissolve has lagged behind, with natural tie decay dominating as the primary explanation. Many deviants face stigma and become social pariahs from communities of origin, yet current network theories struggle to explain how such processes of network dissolution occur. Using interviews conducted with Korean unwed mothers, a highly stigmatized and hard-to-reach population, this study shows that shared culture in networks—norms, expectations, and meanings—plays a key role in how people navigate stigma in their networks. I demonstrate that tie severance requires <em>work</em>: relational work that matches network-specific culture. I propose a typology of tie severance processes along two dimensions, actor and motive, and identify associated relational work for each type. This study shows that macro-level cultural values are adapted to each network and (re)interpreted before relational work can be engaged to manage social relations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48353,"journal":{"name":"Social Networks","volume":"79 ","pages":"Pages 48-56"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141333189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Occupational selection and the reliability of position generator measures of social capital","authors":"Peter V. Marsden,&nbsp;Derick S. Baum","doi":"10.1016/j.socnet.2024.05.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2024.05.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article investigates how variation in the social positions (occupations) presented by a position generator (PG) instrument affects the reliability of egocentric network measures based on PG data. We modify the split-half design employed in Verhaeghe et al.’s (2013) study of university students for use with already-existing PG data on a national adult population. After replicating that study, we examine how reliability varies with the relational criterion (<em>e.g.</em>, friendship) that links an individual to an occupation and with the number of occupations in a PG. We find that most PG measures are only modestly reliable (<em>i.e.</em>, are relatively sensitive to occupational selection), but our absolute assessment of their reliability (given instrument length) is somewhat more optimistic than that of the prior study. Extensity (the number of positions with which a subject has contact) is the most reliable measure, composition measures based on social class groupings are next, and those that involve socioeconomic standing or prestige scores are least reliable. Deeming someone to be connected to an occupation using an acquaintance criterion yields more reliable measures than requiring a stronger level of connectivity. PG measures based on longer (<em>i.e.</em>, more occupations) instruments have higher reliability, and projections for longer PGs suggest that including 20 occupations could measure extensity and counts of contacts in some class groupings with adequate reliability; but other class composition measures and all measures involving socioeconomic standing or prestige scores would require 30 or more.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48353,"journal":{"name":"Social Networks","volume":"79 ","pages":"Pages 34-47"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141323322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}