nowadays, social capital plays more important role than other capitals. in absence of social capital, other capitals will lose their effectiveness and makes it difficult to reach the economic and cultural evelopment. the origin of social capital can be mainly based on social and cultural factors such as festivals. recognition of this capital and its evaluation as a kind of macro-management in t...

With the growth of the Internet comes a growth in a ubiquitous networked society. Common Web 2.0 applications include a rapidly growing trend for social network sites. Social network sites typically converged different relationship types into one group of ‘‘friends.’’ However, with such vast interconnectivity, convergence of relationships, and information sharing by individual users comes an in...

Network science has released its talents in social network analysis based on the information of static topologies. In reality social contacts are dynamic and evolve concurrently in time. Nowadays they can be recorded by ubiquitous information technologies, and generated into temporal social networks to provide new sights in social reality mining. Here, we define circle link to measure contextua...

Today in India mostly among the Indian undergrads the use of Social Networking Sites (SNS) has significantly expanded and has unquestionably had broad effects on the scholarly and different exercises of the understudies’ students. These effects are widespread to the point that they grabbed the eye of social researchers around the world. Be that as it may, the scope of studies led to managing th...

This study investigates whether and how impression management concerns shape ways people seek social support on social network sites (SNS). The data from a laboratory experiment (N 1⁄4 176) show that the importance of impression management goals change depending on the publicity of the message, and that the amount of effort in message composition increases as the severity of the problem increas...

How can we understand the interaction between the social network topology of a population and the patterns of group affiliation in that population? Each aspect influences the other: social networks provide the conduits via which groups recruit new members and groups provide the context in which new social ties are formed. Given that the resources of individuals are finite, groups can be conside...

Modern social network analysis—the analysis of relational data arising from social systems—is a computationally intensive area of research. Here, we provide an overview of a software package which provides support for a range of network analytic functionality within the R statistical computing environment. General categories of currently supported functionality are described, and brief examples...

Given the steady increase of ethnic diversity in the US, greater numbers of people develop the ability to negotiate ethnic boundaries and form multiple ethnic identifications. This paper explores the relationship between intra-ethnic and cross-ethnic relationships—defined in terms of social networks—and patterns of ethnic self-identification among New York City (NYC) Latinos. Drawing on theory ...