In Collective Behavior we come to know how individuals behave in social network environment. The main aim is to guess how there is collective behavior in social media. Many social media face this problem of prediction. Due to the non homogenous nature of connections present in the network a social-dimensions based approach is shown. There are many numbers of actors present in social media. So b...

1. Networking Power: the power of the actors and organizations included in the networks that constitute the core of the global network society over human collectives and individuals who are not included in these global networks. 2. Network Power: the power resulting from the standards required to coordinate social interaction in the networks. In this case, power is exercised not by exclusion fr...

Many methods for the description of social network structural properties are concerned with the dual notions of social position and social role. Common goals of these methods are to represent patterns in complex social network data in simplified form, to reveal sets of actors who are similarly embedded in networks of relations, and to describe the associations among relations in multirelational...

The aim of this article is to develop the foundations of an actor-centred, processual approach to examining the influence of cross-border knowledge transfer and management learning on transnational institution building in post-socialist countries. We argue that there is a need for more research to understand how key social actors go about (re)structuring, (re)defining and sharing knowledge with...

This background note focuses on the current discussion among actors in the humanitarian and social protection sectors regarding the use of existing social protection programmes to provide an emergency response. It outlines the overlaps between social protection and humanitarian responses, considers a range of recent examples from lowand middle-income countries and sets out a set of key consider...

In this article, we present a set of analytical tools aimed at clarifying some simulation results of social actors behaviors in social organizations. These tools are used within a meta-model of social organizations structure, which is the result of a formalization of the Sociology of Organized Action theory. Following this formalization, the structure of a social organization is depicted by som...

In this paper we study the relationship between the resources of social networks by exploring the Web as big data based on a simple search engine. We have used set theory by utilizing the occurrence and co-occurrence for defining the singleton or doubleton spaces of event in a search engine model, and then provided them as representation of social actors and their relationship in clusters. Thus...

We are studying here a model of social influence in which actors are dwelling upon a social network and are influencing/influenced by each other through the recurrent and reproduced pattern of their relationships. Furthermore, we assume that influence outcomes represent preference orderings (among a number of alternatives) and, thus, they are located on a certain relational structure (a graph o...

In this paper we intend to understand the embeddedness of heterogeneous actors in the emerging field of telemedicine. We identify actors who possess medical knowledge and are classified as Experts, as well as other actors, Profanes, who control technology, another form of knowledge. Currently both sets of actors are merged and are involved in the creation of what may be seen as a social constru...