Strength of minority ties: the role of homophily and group composition in a weighted social network

Strength of minority ties: the role of homophily and group composition in a weighted social network

Homophily describes a fundamental tie-formation mechanism in social networks in which connections between similar nodes occur at a higher rate than among dissimilar ones. In this article, we present an extension of the weighted social network (WSN) model that, under an explicit homophily principle,...

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Main Authors: José R Nicolás-Carlock, Denis Boyer, Sandra E Smith-Aguilar, Gabriel Ramos-Fernández
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2024-01-01
Series:Journal of Physics: Complexity
Subjects:
social networks
network models
homophily
minorities
social structure
complex systems
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/2632-072X/ad2720

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https://doi.org/10.1088/2632-072X/ad2720

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