The Architecture of Small Networks
Strong Interaction and Dynamic Organization in Small Social Systems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4522572 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas S Smith (University of Rochester), Gregory T Stevens (University of Michigan) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 403 |
| Publication date | 1999-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2657493 |
| OpenAlex | W2320507975 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 29 |
A new theoretical model of social interaction, conceptualized here as a hyperstructure, provides the basis for simulation experiments designed to explore the network effects of high frequency social dynamics, or strong interactions. Based on neurophysiological discoveries of brain-behavior mechanisms at work in attachment, the theoretical model provides a nonreductionistic understanding of how biological forces constrain social interaction and yield effects that propagate beyond dyads into wider social networks. The network effects of the model are equivalent to patterns long recognized in sociological research on personal networks, showing that the model can reproduce empirically familiar and sometimes surprising bottom-up discoveries about network dynamics. Additionally, the model provides sociological theory with a straightforward computational approach to discovering how deep structural principles at work in all complex systems also yield a social architecture-specifically, how a system/subsystem architecture, first described by Herbert Simon, emerges when strong interactions partition persons into naturally occurring subsystems
Cognitive science · Complex system · Data science · Dynamics (music · Partition (number theory · Social dynamics · Social network (sociolinguistics · Social relation · Social science · Social system · Sociology · Architecture · Artificial Intelligence · Complex Network Analysis Techniques · Complex Systems and Decision Making · Computer Science · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Mathematics · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Psychology
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Adult Attachment
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Time and Theory in Social Psychology
Feeling and thinking
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The Strength of Weak Ties
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,46 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2025 (24) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |