Mitchell Centre Seminar: Christoph Stadtfeld
| Dates: | 30 April 2014 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 17:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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| Speaker: | Christoph Stadtfeld |
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Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Social Networks
Many phenomena in social networks can be well explained by individual
motivations and choices (micromotives in social networks). For example,
trust, friendship, homophily, behavioral imitation and social learning
can be described as small-scale processes with just two or a few
individuals involved. However, many of these small-scale processes
interconnect to large-scale social networks with specific features:
Clustering, segregation and diffusion of knowledge are examples of
complex large-scale structures and processes (macrobehavior in social
networks) that emerge from small-scale motives and in turn have an
influence on the small-scale level. In this talk, I will discuss the
complex interplay between micromotives and macrobehavior in social
networks. In particular, I will focus on how social networks research
can provide new insights into this theoretical challenge by combining
different methodological approaches.
Speaker
Christoph Stadtfeld
Organisation: University of Groningen
Travel and Contact Information
Find event
Room 2.217
University Place
Manchester
