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The Social Diffusion of Ideas and Things

Author : Paul Lopes
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Social Diffusion of Ideas and Things written by Paul Lopes and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1999-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans once eyed the latest Paris fashions in the hope of being chic; now fashion cool is more likely to be found on the frames of kids from LA and London. In corporate boardrooms, managers and entrepreneurs seek to adopt new ideas from competitors. Government programs aim to combat assorted social ills spread within and between nations. Musical idioms flow between jazz, dance music, and symphony halls. All this commotion about the new, the chic, the cool, and the best prompt some ideas to spread, some ideas to be reinvented through contact with other ideas, and some ideas to languish or die. This special issue of THE ANNALS, The Social Diffusion of Ideas and Things, devotes its attention to the hows and whys of the diffusion of ideas and things between people, organizations, and cultures. In this issue, discussion if diffusion covers a diverse range of topics: · Fashionable clothing · Community outreach · Industrial pollution · Political activism · Morality policy · Tobacco regulation · Jazz music · Diffusion theory Studies in diffusion provide insights into social processes of innovation and communication of the transmission and adoption of new ideas, new practices, and new technologies. This special issue familiarizes readers with basic hypotheses on diffusion that guide contemporary scholarship and is a useful tool to any social scientist.

Why Communism Did Not Collapse

Author : Martin K. Dimitrov
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107035538
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Why Communism Did Not Collapse written by Martin K. Dimitrov and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses the durability of communist autocracies in Eastern Europe and Asia, the longest-lasting type of non-democratic regime to emerge after World War I.

Diffusion of Innovations

Author : Everett M. Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Diffusion of Innovations written by Everett M. Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting an innovation adopted is difficult; a common problem is increasing the rate of its diffusion. Diffusion is the communication of an innovation through certain channels over time among members of a social system. It is a communication whose messages are concerned with new ideas; it is a process where participants create and share information to achieve a mutual understanding. Initial chapters of the book discuss the history of diffusion research, some major criticisms of diffusion research, and the meta-research procedures used in the book. This text is the third edition of this well-respected work. The first edition was published in 1962, and the fifth edition in 2003. The book's theoretical framework relies on the concepts of information and uncertainty. Uncertainty is the degree to which alternatives are perceived with respect to an event and the relative probabilities of these alternatives; uncertainty implies a lack of predictability and motivates an individual to seek information. A technological innovation embodies information, thus reducing uncertainty. Information affects uncertainty in a situation where a choice exists among alternatives; information about a technological innovation can be software information or innovation-evaluation information. An innovation is an idea, practice, or object that is perceived as new by an individual or an other unit of adoption; innovation presents an individual or organization with a new alternative(s) or new means of solving problems. Whether new alternatives are superior is not precisely known by problem solvers. Thus people seek new information. Information about new ideas is exchanged through a process of convergence involving interpersonal networks. Thus, diffusion of innovations is a social process that communicates perceived information about a new idea; it produces an alteration in the structure and function of a social system, producing social consequences. Diffusion has four elements: (1) an innovation that is perceived as new, (2) communication channels, (3) time, and (4) a social system (members jointly solving to accomplish a common goal). Diffusion systems can be centralized or decentralized. The innovation-development process has five steps passing from recognition of a need, through R&D, commercialization, diffusions and adoption, to consequences. Time enters the diffusion process in three ways: (1) innovation-decision process, (2) innovativeness, and (3) rate of the innovation's adoption. The innovation-decision process is an information-seeking and information-processing activity that motivates an individual to reduce uncertainty about the (dis)advantages of the innovation. There are five steps in the process: (1) knowledge for an adoption/rejection/implementation decision; (2) persuasion to form an attitude, (3) decision, (4) implementation, and (5) confirmation (reinforcement or rejection). Innovations can also be re-invented (changed or modified) by the user. The innovation-decision period is the time required to pass through the innovation-decision process. Rates of adoption of an innovation depend on (and can be predicted by) how its characteristics are perceived in terms of relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, trialability, and observability. The diffusion effect is the increasing, cumulative pressure from interpersonal networks to adopt (or reject) an innovation. Overadoption is an innovation's adoption when experts suggest its rejection. Diffusion networks convey innovation-evaluation information to decrease uncertainty about an idea's use. The heart of the diffusion process is the modeling and imitation by potential adopters of their network partners who have adopted already. Change agents influence innovation decisions in a direction deemed desirable. Opinion leadership is the degree individuals influence others' attitudes.

The Role of Diffusion Processes in Fertility Change in Developing Countries

Author : Committee on Population
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309518881
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Role of Diffusion Processes in Fertility Change in Developing Countries written by Committee on Population and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-04-12 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report summarizes presentations and discussions at the Workshop on the Social Processes Underlying Fertility Change in Developing Countries, organized by the Committee on Population of the National Research Council (NRC) in Washington, D.C., January 29-30, 1998. Fourteen papers were presented at the workshop; they represented both theoretical and empirical perspectives and shed new light on the role that diffusion processes may play in fertility transition. These papers served as the basis for the discussion that is summarized in this report.

Diffusion of Innovations, 4th Edition

Author : Everett M. Rogers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451602472
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Diffusion of Innovations, 4th Edition written by Everett M. Rogers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first edition of this landmark book was published in 1962, Everett Rogers's name has become "virtually synonymous with the study of diffusion of innovations," according to Choice. The second and third editions of Diffusion of Innovations became the standard textbook and reference on diffusion studies. Now, in the fourth edition, Rogers presents the culmination of more than thirty years of research that will set a new standard for analysis and inquiry. The fourth edition is (1) a revision of the theoretical framework and the research evidence supporting this model of diffusion, and (2) a new intellectual venture, in that new concepts and new theoretical viewpoints are introduced. This edition differs from its predecessors in that it takes a much more critical stance in its review and synthesis of 5,000 diffusion publications. During the past thirty years or so, diffusion research has grown to be widely recognized, applied and admired, but it has also been subjected to both constructive and destructive criticism. This criticism is due in large part to the stereotyped and limited ways in which many diffusion scholars have defined the scope and method of their field of study. Rogers analyzes the limitations of previous diffusion studies, showing, for example, that the convergence model, by which participants create and share information to reach a mutual understanding, more accurately describes diffusion in most cases than the linear model. Rogers provides an entirely new set of case examples, from the Balinese Water Temple to Nintendo videogames, that beautifully illustrate his expansive research, as well as a completely revised bibliography covering all relevant diffusion scholarship in the past decade. Most important, he discusses recent research and current topics, including social marketing, forecasting the rate of adoption, technology transfer, and more. This all-inclusive work will be essential reading for scholars and students in the fields of communications, marketing, geography, economic development, political science, sociology, and other related fields for generations to come.

Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition

Author : Everett M. Rogers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743258231
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition written by Everett M. Rogers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-08-16 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its fifth edition, Diffusion of Innovations is a classic work on the spread of new ideas. In this renowned book, Everett M. Rogers, professor and chair of the Department of Communication & Journalism at the University of New Mexico, explains how new ideas spread via communication channels over time. Such innovations are initially perceived as uncertain and even risky. To overcome this uncertainty, most people seek out others like themselves who have already adopted the new idea. Thus the diffusion process consists of a few individuals who first adopt an innovation, then spread the word among their circle of acquaintances—a process which typically takes months or years. But there are exceptions: use of the Internet in the 1990s, for example, may have spread more rapidly than any other innovation in the history of humankind. Furthermore, the Internet is changing the very nature of diffusion by decreasing the importance of physical distance between people. The fifth edition addresses the spread of the Internet, and how it has transformed the way human beings communicate and adopt new ideas.

Python for Graph and Network Analysis

Author : Mohammed Zuhair Al-Taie
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319530046
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Python for Graph and Network Analysis written by Mohammed Zuhair Al-Taie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research monograph provides the means to learn the theory and practice of graph and network analysis using the Python programming language. The social network analysis techniques, included, will help readers to efficiently analyze social data from Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, GitHub and many others at three levels of depth: ego, group, and community. They will be able to analyse militant and revolutionary networks and candidate networks during elections. For instance, they will learn how the Ebola virus spread through communities. Practically, the book is suitable for courses on social network analysis in all disciplines that use social methodology. In the study of social networks, social network analysis makes an interesting interdisciplinary research area, where computer scientists and sociologists bring their competence to a level that will enable them to meet the challenges of this fast-developing field. Computer scientists have the knowledge to parse and process data while sociologists have the experience that is required for efficient data editing and interpretation. Social network analysis has successfully been applied in different fields such as health, cyber security, business, animal social networks, information retrieval, and communications.

Diffusion in Social Networks

Author : Paulo Shakarian
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319231057
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Diffusion in Social Networks written by Paulo Shakarian and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the leading models of social network diffusion that are used to demonstrate the spread of disease, ideas, and behavior. It introduces diffusion models from the fields of computer science (independent cascade and linear threshold), sociology (tipping models), physics (voter models), biology (evolutionary models), and epidemiology (SIR/SIS and related models). A variety of properties and problems related to these models are discussed including identifying seeds sets to initiate diffusion, game theoretic problems, predicting diffusion events, and more. The book explores numerous connections between social network diffusion research and artificial intelligence through topics such as agent-based modeling, logic programming, game theory, learning, and data mining. The book also surveys key empirical results in social network diffusion, and reviews the classic and cutting-edge research with a focus on open problems.

Diffusion Processes and Fertility Transition

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309076102
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Diffusion Processes and Fertility Transition written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-12-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is part of an effort to review what is known about the determinants of fertility transition in developing countries and to identify lessons that might lead to policies aimed at lowering fertility. It addresses the roles of diffusion processes, ideational change, social networks, and mass communications in changing behavior and values, especially as related to childbearing. A new body of empirical research is currently emerging from studies of social networks in Asia (Thailand, Taiwan, Korea), Latin America (Costa Rica), and Sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya, Malawi, Ghana). Given the potential significance of social interactions to the design of effective family planning programs in high-fertility settings, efforts to synthesize this emerging body of literature are clearly important.

Foreign Objects

Author : Craig N. Cipolla
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816531919
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Objects written by Craig N. Cipolla and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Foreign Objects is a critical look at consumption through the lens of indigenous knowledge and archeological theory"--Provided by publisher.

Planning for Creative Change in Mental Health Services

Author : National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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The Chocolate Model of Change

Author : Diane Dormant
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1257867555
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book The Chocolate Model of Change written by Diane Dormant and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-07-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A how-to-guide to get others in your organization to accept new technologies, processes, regulations, management, etc.

The Use of Social Research in Federal Domestic Programs

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Research and Technical Programs Subcommittee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1048 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Use of Social Research in Federal Domestic Programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Research and Technical Programs Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contagious

Author : Jonah Berger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451686587
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Contagious written by Jonah Berger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Creative Homeowner,

How Behavior Spreads

Author : Damon Centola
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691202427
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book How Behavior Spreads written by Damon Centola and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, counterintuitive theory for how social networks influence the spread of behavior New social movements, technologies, and public-health initiatives often struggle to take off, yet many diseases disperse rapidly without issue. Can the lessons learned from the viral diffusion of diseases improve the spread of beneficial behaviors and innovations? How Behavior Spreads presents over a decade of original research examining how changes in societal behavior—in voting, health, technology, and finance—occur and the ways social networks can be used to influence how they propagate. Damon Centola's startling findings show that the same conditions that accelerate the viral expansion of an epidemic unexpectedly inhibit the spread of behaviors. How Behavior Spreads is a must-read for anyone interested in how the theory of social networks can transform our world.

Spatial Diffusion

Author : Richard Morrill
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780803926844
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Spatial Diffusion written by Richard Morrill and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1988-02-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this concise, clear introduction, the authors describe the theory of spatial diffusion, its method of measurement and many of its applications. The seminal work of Torsten Hagerstrand, who introduced the original spatial model of diffusion, is outlined. The authors then summarise the developments that have been made to Hagerstrand's formulation, and make suggestions for future research.

Networks and the Spread of Ideas in the Past

Author : Anna Collar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 042976930X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Networks and the Spread of Ideas in the Past written by Anna Collar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Networks and the Spread of Ideas in the Past: Strong Ties, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange gathers contributions from an international group of scholars to reconsider the role that strong social ties play in the transmission of new ideas, and their crucial place in network analyses of the past. Drawing on case studies that range from the early Iron Age Mediterranean to medieval Britain, the contributing authors showcase the importance of looking at strong social ties in the transmission of complex information, which requires relationships structured through mutual trust, memory, and reciprocity. They highlight the importance of sanctuaries in the process of information transmission, the power of narrative in creating a sense of community even across geographical space, and the control of social systems in order to facilitate or stifle new information transfer. Networks and the Spread of Ideas in the Past demonstrates the value of searching the past for powerful social connections, offers us the chance to tell more human stories through our analyses, and represents an essential new addition to the study and use of networks in archaeology and history. The book will be useful to academics and students working in the Digital Humanities, History, and Archaeology.