Sociology is not a field that deals with the obvious. Apart from this view, sociology in essence talks about society, talking or as stated by studying symptoms of society. In an effort to understand goal, develops approach using certain basic assumptions, and based on these foundations are built which theoretical perspective structure built. Social system insight (perspective) sociology; concep...

While emerging economies have seen an explosion of social network site (SNS) adoption, these countries lack sophisticated credit scoring system or credit bureaus to predict creditworthiness of individuals. In this paper, we propose an SNS-based credit scoring method for micro loans using largescale observational data. We show empirical evidence that by incorporating social network metrics, we c...

This study examines the formation and change of collaborative learning social networks in a distributed learning community. A social network perspective is employed to understand how collaborative networks evolved over time when 31 distributed learners collaborated on a design project using a computer-mediated communication system during two semesters. Special attention was paid to how pre-exis...

The use of social technology in classroom has shown various results. This paper focuses on using social technology as a casebased learning tool. A total of 116 students in a public university in Thailand were formed into teams, and spent two weeks in discussing a Harvard business case via the social technology; Edmodo. After the experiment, an online survey is conducted with these participants ...

How to use the online social learning communities to improve quality and quantity of interactions in physical social learning communities is an important issue. This work describes the design and implementation of multilayer educational services platforms that enable learners to establish their own online social learning communities and integrate their online social learning communities into a ...