coe-staff: Colloquium 2/27: Professor James Moody, Duke University

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Here is information on a colloquium that may be of interest to COE faculty and staff.

Sociology Colloquium
February 27, 2017
12pm-1pm
714 PLC
Professor Jim Moody
Department of Sociology, Duke University
Light refreshments will be provided
Title: The Structural Dynamics of Groups and Roles in Early Adolescent Friendship Networks
Abstract: A fundamental aspect of school life rests on the collective substructures of peer networks.  We examine two intersecting substructures here: peer groups defined as dense communities of close friends and role positions, defined on the pattern of ties one is embedded within, which are closely aligned with the school status structure.  Combined, these two dimensions define the social field of a school for adolescents. Despite intense policy interest in “peer pressure” and theoretical interests in generalizations of fields, there is little basic descriptive information on the life-history of these key social network substructures in real-world networks, in part due to lack of available data and appropriate methods. Here, we describe the dynamics of groups and roles in dynamic data on 6 waves of  peer network data in a way that lets us see the simultaneous emergence of behavior homophily and status stability.


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