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| Stanley Milgram (1933 - 1984) |
On 28th of October 2012 we were having a class at Open School of Psychology. We were discussing social roles, social atom, social networks, and sociogram as a tool to make a graphic representation of social links that a person has.
I taught about the "small world phenomenon" - the famous social networks' experiment of Stanley Milgram. He found out that between two distinct - not only physically, but also socially - persons there are average six steps, or six degrees of separation. For instance, Bill could reach Tim in six steps (1'st - acquaintance, 2nd - acquaintance's acquaintance, 3rd - acquaintance of acquaintance's acquaintance, and so on). Then I suggested to the group members that we could revisit and retest Milgram's experiment, by using today's online social networks.
I taught about the "small world phenomenon" - the famous social networks' experiment of Stanley Milgram. He found out that between two distinct - not only physically, but also socially - persons there are average six steps, or six degrees of separation. For instance, Bill could reach Tim in six steps (1'st - acquaintance, 2nd - acquaintance's acquaintance, 3rd - acquaintance of acquaintance's acquaintance, and so on). Then I suggested to the group members that we could revisit and retest Milgram's experiment, by using today's online social networks.
And the story began...
Dear all,
ReplyDeleteAs you all know, I was absent last Sunday and chances are that I will be absent this Sunday again :(((. I suggest that you keep me in the loop and share with me any developments regarding the "small world phenomenon" and the group as a whole.
What have you decided: to reach one and the same person, or everybody decides for theirselves (a different person)?
We could also create a blog where we can summerize what has been done so far; thus those who miss a class (like me) will keep track of the course.
Please share your ideas. Miss you guys. Take care
Dear Canaria,
DeleteYou have made an excellent remark! Thank you for sharing your ideas!
Yes, sure we'll keep record for our work step by step. But I think that we should summarize everything on this blog. In this way we wont scatter our stuff and you'll always stay in touch with the latest news.
Actually I already wrote a draft post, summarizing our discussion from the previous Sunday, and I will publish it here soon!
Hope to see you soon!