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clinker

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 20, 2016 - 07:05am PT
Similarity breeds connection. This principle—the homophily principle—structures network ties of every type, including marriage, friendship, work, advice, support, information transfer, exchange, comembership, and other types of relationship. The result is that people's personal networks are homogeneous with regard to many sociodemographic, behavioral, and intrapersonal characteristics. Homophily limits people's social worlds in a way that has powerful implications for the information they receive, the attitudes they form, and the interactions they experience. Homophily in race and ethnicity creates the strongest divides in our personal environments, with age, religion, education, occupation, and gender following in roughly that order. Geographic propinquity, families, organizations, and isomorphic positions in social systems all create contexts in which homophilous relations form. Ties between nonsimilar individuals also dissolve at a higher rate, which sets the stage for the formation of niches (localized positions) within social space. We argue for more research on: (a) the basic ecological processes that link organizations, associations, cultural communities, social movements, and many other social forms; (b) the impact of multiplex ties on the patterns of homophily; and (c) the dynamics of network change over time through which networks and other social entities co-evolve.

How different viewpoints evolve.
fear

Ice climber
hartford, ct
Oct 20, 2016 - 07:13am PT
Sounds like somebody wants more money to study what we already know.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Oct 20, 2016 - 07:17am PT
Who's gonna be the first to say it?
EdwardT

Trad climber
Retired
Oct 20, 2016 - 07:20am PT
Tribalism - It's how we're hard wired.
pud

climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
Oct 20, 2016 - 07:34am PT
A daft opinion.

This may ring true if all humans thought alike.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Oct 20, 2016 - 08:07am PT
I admit to having cracked under peer pressure.

Idiots just know how to get to me.

Pud, could you be more explicit? I can't read your mind. :0)
Mungeclimber

Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
Oct 20, 2016 - 08:36am PT
Yes, I have no f'ing interest in Drumpf fueled sh#t storm, if that's what you mean Clink. ;)
clinker

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 20, 2016 - 12:36pm PT

Munge, it seems that my estimation of the amount of insane people in the USA was off by a few dozen million.
JEleazarian

Trad climber
Fresno CA
Oct 20, 2016 - 12:43pm PT
I actually take this sort of stuff seriously enough to study it a bit. After all, as an economist, I'm always looking for ways to foster mutually beneficial exchanges (which, purely conicidentally, can make the exchanger substantially wealthier).

We tend to overlook the role rhetoric plays in bridging tribal gaps. My wife's cousin, Leah Ceccarelli, turned her doctoral thesis into a book, Shaping Science With Rhetoric, that studies how scientists were or were not successful in creating collaberations across disciplines that led to significant breakthoughs.

When I look at the tribalism we experience on ST, whether it's political discussion or climbing style or ethics ones, we have a tendency to write to those with whom we agree, not to those with whom we disagree. Either that, or we really expect those with whom we disagree to wallow through our insults.

Believe it or not, we can have a rational discussion if we craft our language in a way that causes others outside our tribe to listen.

John
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Oct 20, 2016 - 01:29pm PT
I'll buy that for a dollar, John.

#Robocop
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Oct 20, 2016 - 01:39pm PT
What's this have to do with Boyz 2 Men?
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