Structural Determinants of Men's and Women's Personal Networks

Moore, Gwen

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“…15 The Facebook networks, outgoing picture networks, and housing groups of females are significantly more heterogeneous than those of males, controlling for race/ethnicity, SES, and online activity. Together with females' important role in the picture network (more outgoing ties, higher betweenness) and their lower Facebook friend density, these findings do not substantiate the argument that women's networks are disadvantaged compared to men's (Smith-Lovin and McPherson, 1993;Moore, 1990). In fact, they suggest that -for all network types examined here -women are more socially active and have a greater diversity of "network resources" at their disposal (see Campbell et al, 1986).…”

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Tastes, ties, and time: A new social network dataset using Facebook.com

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a b s t r a c tScholars have long recognized the potential of Internet-based communication technologies for improving network research-potential that, to date, remains largely underexploited. In the first half of this paper, we introduce a new public dataset based on manipulations and embellishments of a popular social network site, Facebook.com. We emphasize five distinctive features of this dataset and highlight its advantages and limitations vis-à-vis other kinds of network data. In the second half of this paper, we present descriptive findings from our first wave of data. Subgroups defined by gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status are characterized by distinct network behaviors, and students sharing social relationships as well as demographic traits tend to share a significant number of cultural preferences. These findings exemplify the scientific and pedagogical potential of this new network resource and provide a starting point for future analyses.

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Section: Comparative Results: Subgroup Differences Across Three Typesmentioning

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Tastes, ties, and time: A new social network dataset using Facebook.com

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“…Second, with respect to gender, the literature has generally found significant gender differences in the average quality of social networks, while women and men usually have networks of similar size (see, e.g., Moore, 1990;Marsden, 1987). Specifically, women tend to have contacts of lower quality (which are less productive in terms of delivering job offers) than men, and thus they are less likely to use social networks in their job search.…”

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Informal search, bad search?: the effects of job search method on wages among rural migrants in urban China

2017

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Any opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and not those of IZA. Research published in this series may include views on policy, but IZA takes no institutional policy positions. The IZA research network is committed to the IZA Guiding Principles of Research Integrity. The IZA Institute of Labor Economics is an independent economic research institute that conducts research in labor economics and offers evidence-based policy advice on labor market issues. Supported by the Deutsche Post Foundation, IZA runs the world's largest network of economists, whose research aims to provide answers to the global labor market challenges of our time. Our key objective is to build bridges between academic research, policymakers and society. IZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. what are the underlying mechanisms. We empirically examine these issues specifically for rural migrants in urban China, a country where one of the largest domestic migration in human history has occurred over the past decades. We find that there exists a significant wage penalty for those migrant workers who have conducted their search through informal channels, despite their popularity. Our further analysis suggests two potential reasons for the wage penalty: 1) the informal job search sends a negative signal (of workers' inability to successfully find a job in a competitive market) to potential employers, resulting in lower wages; and 2) there exists a trade-off between wages and search efficiency for quicker entry into local labor market. We also find some evidence that the informal job search may lead to low-skilled jobs with lower wages. We do not find strong evidence supporting alternative explanations. Terms of use: Documents in JEL

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“…On this point, work from across the social and behavioral sciences complements extant political science efforts (see Djupe and Sokhey 2013 for an overview). Men and women have equally-sized "important matters" networks (Marsden 1987;Moore 1990), but women's core networks tend to be populated with family at higher rates. From this perspective, 1 To be fair, there are exceptions to this statement.…”

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“…2 See also Djupe and Gilbert 2009and McClurg 2006b for related takes on social influence conditioned on the broader social context. differences in the composition of the network are driven by a combination of the structural locations of men and women (Moore 1990), and differences in the priority (or choice) of maintaining close relationships (e.g., Gilligan 1982). Evidence supporting the latter notion is extensive.…”

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The Political Consequences of Gender in Social Networks

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McClurg²,

Sokhey³

2016

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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Recent research on political discussion has focused on whether aspects of interaction create a ‘democratic dilemma’ for the mass public in which people face a choice between political participation and political tolerance. This article argues that there are important variations in how people react to their immediate social contacts. It explores this idea by studying how social disagreement and expertise interact with gender to explain variance in political participation. First, it shows that there are conflicting expectations in the literature about how such dynamics should manifest, despite agreement that men and women should experience different kinds and degrees of social influence. Secondly, it examines these expectations by revisiting prominent, network-based explanations of political participation; it finds that these relationships do not display consistency across sex differences. The results point to the existence of varied ‘social logics’ for men and women, and suggest the need to reconsider how to think about the efficacy of discussion and disagreement in a democratic society.

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Structural Determinants of Men's and Women's Personal Networks

Cited by 792 publications

References 25 publications

Tastes, ties, and time: A new social network dataset using Facebook.com

Tastes, ties, and time: A new social network dataset using Facebook.com

Informal search, bad search?: the effects of job search method on wages among rural migrants in urban China

The Political Consequences of Gender in Social Networks

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