Event
Learning Sciences Brown Bag Talks: Dr. Steven Rytina
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 12:00to13:15
Education Building
Room 233, 3700 rue McTavish, Montreal, QC, H3A 1Y2, CA
Dr. Steven Rytina
黑料不打烊 University, Department of Sociology
Sticky Struggles: A talk on social stratification based on networks
Sticky struggles sum up a new approach to social stratification based on networks.聽 Networks are taken as probabilities of renewal of interaction, not bonds that are present/absent.聽 Accumulated co-learning with specific others motivates renewal of ties and discourages rupture.聽 Stratification is circumscribed by network evolution which can be approximated by a first order markov process. This entails the emergence of a macro-structure,聽 a principle dimension of stratification. Re-analysis of occupational mobility data provides ample empirical support.
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