The Interactance Hypothesis
A Gravity Model Fitting Physical Masses and Human Groups
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4773823 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stuart Carter Dodd |
| Year | 1950 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 245 |
| Publication date | 1950-04-01 |
| 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 | 10.2307/2086789 |
| OpenAlex | W2323801961 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
T HE HYPOTHESIS of interactance predicts the number of interactions, of any one specific kind, among people when observed in groups, from their basic dimensions of time, space, population and per capita This dimensional principle of human interacting can be roughly stated in folk terms (to be more exactly defined below) as: Groups of people interact more as they become faster, nearer, larger, and leveled up in activity. Conversely, people will interact less in proportion as their groups (a) have fewer actions per period, (b) are further apart, (c) are smaller in population, and (d) are more unlike each other in average The hypothesis thus states the factors determining the quantity of group interaction regardless of its quality or form, i.e., regardless of whether it is cooperating, competing, conflicting, or engaging in some other form of interaction. Whether these sub forms of interacting, or social processes, will require differential coefficients in the interactance formula, Eq. I, is unknown as yet. For testing, the hypothesis must be stated more formally in exact operational terms. Since the factors or dimensions of group interactance parallel the dimensions of physical gravity, the formal statement here will have the same form or formula for both, but with the factors expressed in appropriate physical or social units. Thus one factor in the formula will be in units of particles
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Intranational Home Bias in Trade
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University Prestige and First-Time Undergraduate Migration in the United States
A Dimensional Theory of Social Diffusion
"Intercity Telephone and Airline Traffic Related to Distance and the "Propensity to Interact
Sociomatrices and Levels of Interaction for Dealing with Plurels, Groups and Organizations
Border effects for domestic travel in China during Covid-19 pandemic
The Interaction Model and Relative Location Variables
The Intra-Urban Migration Process
Human migratory flows
Transport geography
The gravity model
Travel in the Recreational Experience—A Literature Review
Southern Negro Migration
Linguistic problems in recent social research
How momental laws can be developed in sociology by deducing testable and predictive ?Actance? Models from Transacts
The Spatial Allocation of Migrants in England and Wales
Meteorological Models in Social Dynamics
Intervening Opportunities and National Park Visitation Rates
Toward a Theoretical System of Human Ecology
A Geographical Approach to the Examination of Industrial Linkages
The Interactance Hypothesis and Boundaries in Canada
Situational determinants of perception
Macrogeography and Social Science
Formulas for Spreading Opinions
The Wheel of Retail Gravitation
The Ecology of Rural Ethnic Groups and the Spatial Dimensions of Power1
Effects of Public Speaking Trait Anxiety and Intensity of Speaking Task on Heart Rate During Performance
| Citations per year | 0.43 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1951 - 2024 (74) |
| Highly cited | No |