Social Resources and Strength of Ties: Structural Factors in Occupational Status Attainment

Lin, Nan; Ensel, Walter M.; Vaughn, John C.

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“…On the one hand, weak ties would be better because they reach people from different social positions and thus access to a more diverse range of social network resources (Granovetter, 1973). On the other, strong ties would be better because they are more motivated to actually help a person, especially when the requested resources are scarce and valuable (Lin et al, 1981). Given these two opposing views, we test two contradicting hypotheses.…”

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The association between network social capital and self-rated health: Pouring old wine in new bottles?

Verhaeghe¹,

Pattyn²,

Bracke³

et al. 2012

Health & Place

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The association between network social capital and self-rated health: Pouring old wine in new bottles?

Verhaeghe¹,

Pattyn²,

Bracke³

et al. 2012

Health & Place

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“…Granovetter's pioneering work on job search (Granovetter 1974), a variety of studies find that weak ties, such as acquaintances and casual friends, are not only more likely than strong ties, such as family and close friends, to lead to jobs but also more likely to lead to better jobs (e.g., Lin, Ensel, and Vaughn 1981;Green, Tiggers, and Browne 1995;Yakubovich 2005). However, other studies find that tie strength has no effect on labor-market outcomes (e.g., Marsden and Hurlbert 1988;Korpi 2001;Völker and Flap 1999).…”

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Motivation vs. relevance: Using strong ties to find a job in Urban China

Obukhova¹

2012

Social Science Research

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While the idea that contacts matter in finding a job is intuitively appealing, we still do not know-after decades of research-how and why strong ties benefit job seekers. To resolve this confusion, we need to theorize how specific characteristics of ties are related to the mechanisms that make job search through contacts effective. We have reasons to expect that, while a contact's motivation influences the likelihood that a job seeker receives an offer, her homophily with the job seeker on occupation and other job-relevant attributes influences the quality of the offer. The use of strong ties among university students to find jobs in China provides a unique opportunity to empirically isolate the relationship between contact characteristics and the mechanisms through which contacts benefit the job seeker. I tested my hypotheses with data on both the successful and unsuccessful job searches of 478 graduates of China's flagship universities, who, as first-time job seekers, primarily used strong ties. Survey results are consistent with my hypotheses: Job seekers who used strong ties to look for jobs had more offers-but not better offers-than those who used only formal methods.

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“…Later, other researchers in sociology extended the dimensions with structural factors such as network topology [11] and social factors such as race, gender and education level [12]. In this work, we focus on the primary four tie strength dimensions, mainly intensity and reciprocal services.…”

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Estimating Social Tie Strength for Autonomous D2D Collaborations

Choi¹,

Kang²,

Jung³

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7 Abstract-With the new paradigm, Internet of Things, devices are now able to share services and resources generating higher level of services. However, the management and configuration of the smart devices are often troublesome, interrupting user's primary task. To automate the process of device collaboration, smart devices should be able to configure and manage themselves, self-identifying peer devices and their relationships. Hence, we proposed the concept of device sociality, which describes social relationship between devices. In device social network with device sociality, devices are able to detect peer devices and determine resources and services to share. To derive device sociality, we investigated social relationships between users and analyzed correlations between online social interactions and social relationships. Moreover, we also investigated social ties in terms of interaction direction, individual peculiarity, and network topology. In the experiment, we not only derived directional and individualized social affinity models, but also detected organizational structure and groups of the participants, confirming the potential of D2D collaboration.Index Terms-Device social, social relationship, social network, internet of things, communication, relationship model, tie strength.

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Social Resources and Strength of Ties: Structural Factors in Occupational Status Attainment

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The association between network social capital and self-rated health: Pouring old wine in new bottles?

The association between network social capital and self-rated health: Pouring old wine in new bottles?

Motivation vs. relevance: Using strong ties to find a job in Urban China

Estimating Social Tie Strength for Autonomous D2D Collaborations

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