The co-evolution of individual and network

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作者
Lazer, D [1 ]
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[1] Harvard Univ, John F Kennedy Sch Govt, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
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10.1080/0022250X.2001.9990245
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O1 [数学];
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0701 ; 070101 ;
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Individuals simultaneously choose and are affected by their web of connections. This paper explores this co-evolution of individual and network in the context of longitudinal attitudinal and sociometric data collected from a government agency, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Analysis of these data suggests that networks vary in their elasticity - where the internal network of the agency was rigid, but the extra-organizational network quite fluid. Further, the data suggest that, consistent with theories of socialization, individuals differ in plasticity - how they are affected by the network - where the cross-sectional analysis of the data suggest that individuals were molded by the organization, but that the attitudes of individuals who left were unaffected by the change in milieu.
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