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blog.lareviewofbooks.orgblog.lareviewofbooks.orgNetwork science, and its related suite of analytical methods, prioritizes social structure, rejecting the assumption implicit in much quantitative social science work that individual attributes are what matter when accounting for social outcomes.
Moya Bailey • #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice
Impact Networks with David Ehrlichman | Green Pill #59
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We can think of these webs of friendship, favors and gifts, intimacies, obligations, and reciprocities as a relational infrastructure that supports ties between promoters and their girls. If the infrastructure is sound, the exchange goes smoothly, and girls provide valuable labor for promoters that doesn’t look like labor at all; it looks like fun
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there was around a 40 per cent turnover in network membership (technically known as ‘churn’) over the eighteen months that we had been tracking them.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
The proverbial best minds do not go into soil science and do not try their hand at making better cement; instead they are attracted to dealing with disembodied information, now just streams of electrons in myriads of microdevices. From lawyers and economists to code writers and money managers, their disproportionately high rewards are for work comp
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