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Demographic, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Community Structure in Social Networks

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Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining

Synonyms

Assortative behavior; Community detection; Community structure; Demographic structure; Ethno-racial discrimination; Homophily; Socioeconomic stratification

Glossary

Community (in Network Analysis) :

A subnetwork within a larger network that presents a significantly higher density of internal links (within links) than external ones (between links)

Ethnicity :

Real or putative common ancestry, memories of a shared past, and a cultural focus upon one or more symbolic elements which define a group's identity, such as kinship, religion, language, shared territory, nationality, or physical appearance (Bulmer 1996)

Demography :

The study of population characteristics and dynamics (births, deaths, gender, age, geographic distribution, and movement)

Homophily :

Literally “love of the same.” In social studies is the tendency of individuals to relate with similar others

DES :

Demographic, ethnic, and socioeconomic structure

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  1. Department of Geography, University College London (UCL), London, UK

    Pablo Mateos

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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Mateos, P. (2014). Demographic, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Community Structure in Social Networks. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_224

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