Community detection algorithms are fundamental tools to understand organizational principles in social networks. With the increasing power of social media platforms, when detecting communities there are two possible sources of information one can use: the structure of social network and node attributes. However structure of social networks and node attributes are often interpreted separately in...

In this paper, we study how an agent’s belief is affected by her neighbors in a social network. We first introduce a general framework, where every agent has an initial belief on a statement, and updates her belief according to her and her neighbors’ current beliefs under some belief evolution functions, which, arguably, should satisfy some basic properties. Then, we focus on the majority rule ...

In Libya’s fragmented military landscape, Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan Arab Armed Forces stands out as the only armed group that concentrated power over entire regions. The interplay of relative and social cleavages conditioned choices consolidation strategies. As Haftar grew stronger, he progressively moved from cooperative competitive approaches toward coercion. Social wrought by conflict – oppose...

A quantitative descriptive survey of a national sample of social workers (N = 206) examined discrepancies between belief in the NASW Code of Ethics and behavior in implementing the code and social workers' disjunctive distress (disjuncture) when belief and behavior are discordant. Relationships between setting and disjuncture and ethics education and disjuncture were also examined. Variables we...

The world view of students was investigated by measuring covert causal assumptions about the relationship between the person and physical and social reality. The Attitudes About Reality Scale was designed to measure a philosophical dimension ranging between a belief in social constructionism and a belief in logical positivism. These personal epistemologies are related to demographic markers suc...

A variety of problems of social choice theory are examined from a unifying point of view that relies on the logic of degrees of belief. Belief is here a social attribute, its degrees being measured by the fraction of individuals that share a given opinion. Different known methods and some new ones are obtained depending on which concepts are considered and which logical implications are assumed...

introduction: social capital is multidimensional and it is about the value of social networks and relations between people. social capital refers to the relationships that forms the quality and quantity of the society’s social interactions. this study was designed to determine the relationship between social capital and faculty member’s job satisfaction in shiraz medical school. method: social ...

Youth deviance has always been a major concern and an irritant issue and the focal attention among various societies and it has also been the focus of attention by a large number of authorities. This sociological study deals with the cultural tendency of the youth to deviance by a sociological procedure. Using a clustering method, in this survey, the data were obtained from a sample including 3...