The Network Dynamics of Social Status: Problems and Possibilities
Contemporary Perspectives on Organizational Social Networks
ISBN: 978-1-78350-751-1, eISBN: 978-1-78350-752-8
Publication date: 14 July 2014
Abstract
The distinction between network theories and theories of networks is particularly salient in studying social status because social status is both a consequence and an antecedent of network ties. Status is a consequence of network ties because it is conferred by interdependent acts of deference connecting a sender and a recipient. Status is also an antecedent of network ties because it affects individual preferences for social interaction which produce distinct forms of preferential attachment. A new generation of stochastic actor oriented models (SAOM) for social networks is now available that may help to integrate network theories and theories of networks.
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Acknowledgements
Acknowledgments
Financial support for this work is provided, in part, by the Swiss National Science Foundation and by the European Science Foundation as part of the EUROCORES project “Social Influence in Dynamic Networks” (grant number 133273). We are grateful to Dan Brass, Guido Conaldi, Francesca Pallotti, Tom Snijders, Christian Steglich, and Marco Tonellato for discussion and for their insightful comments on prior versions of this paper.
Citation
Lomi, A. and Torló, V.J. (2014), "The Network Dynamics of Social Status: Problems and Possibilities", Contemporary Perspectives on Organizational Social Networks (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 40), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 403-420. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X(2014)0000040020
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