Sociometric Stars as Isolates
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2203108 |
|---|---|
| Authors | F Stuart Chapin (0000-0002-2558-9910, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1950 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 263-267 |
| Publication date | 1950-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/220722 |
| OpenAlex | W1988699016 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Conventional sociometric diagrams represent "stars" or leaders as the persons most often chosen as the center of a circle of admiring friends. When the data of such heuristic diagrams consist of (I) number of incoming choices; (2) number of outgoing choices; and (3) social status scores or some other rating, and are plotted in a three-dimensional model, instead of drawn on a two-dimensional flat surface, the "stars" no longer appear as in the center but as on the periphery of the total group structures. Thus, in social space (not mere direction of choices), "stars" conform to Cooley's concept of the isolation of the leader
Astrophysics · Biology · Center (category theory) · Combinatorics · Crystallography · Group (periodic table) · Heuristic · Isolation (microbiology) · Linguistics · Physics · Space (punctuation) · Stars · Critical Realism in Sociology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.04 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1981 - 2013 (33) |
| Highly cited | No |