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无标度身份:社会网络科学的涌现

Scale-free identity: The emergence of social network science

Haiko Lietz

AI总结:

本研究融合社会网络分析与网络科学,基于百年学术论文数据集构建无标度身份模型,验证了社会文化系统的幂律分布与身份的双重属性,揭示两学科结合的互惠价值。

摘要:

社会网络分析是研究嵌入特定情境中的智能体的一种方法。约1998年,物理学家将社会网络作为复杂系统的表征展开研究,小世界网络与无标度网络是这一“网络科学”的范式模型。本研究依托社会文化过程的多种模型与机制,构建了一套身份模型,并以“社会网络科学”为案例完成校准,该研究领域由社会网络分析与网络科学融合形成。研究构建了一个涵盖1916-2012年百年研究历程、包含25760篇学术论文的独特数据集,对这批出版物聚类后,识别出五个子领域,并从作者合作、引用、词汇使用的结构与动态维度展开分析。研究将渗流理论的标度假设推广至社会文化系统,即洛特卡定律、布拉德福定律、齐普夫定律这类幂律规模分布,意味着所描述的身份处于意义的稳定性与变化性之间的相变点。在此情况下,可通过双变量标度律与Abbott的分形区分启发式方法诊断身份。身份并非二元对立,而是兼具社会网络与文化领域、微观与宏观现象、稳定性与变化性的双重属性。为研究指引方向的“故事集”,相较于开展研究的个体,波动更小、独特性更弱、惰性更强,身份是无标度的。六种感知维度可诊断身份的不同面向,当它们作为过程共同作用时,便形成了复杂的社会文化系统。研究还发现关系社会学与网络科学结合可产生互惠效应:网络科学可从关系社会学中认识到,社会系统是交易与意义的双重统一体;对社会科学而言,帕累托式思维(标度不变性)的重要性得到了凸显。

英文摘要:

Social Network Analysis is a way of studying agents embedded in contexts. In about 1998, physicists discovered social networks as representations of complex systems. Small-world and scale-free networks are the paradigmatic models of this Network Science. Relying on various models and mechanisms of socio-cultural processes, an identity model is developed and calibrated in a case study of Social Network Science. This research domain results from the union of Social Network Analysis and Network Science. A unique dataset of 25,760 scholarly articles from one century of research (1916-2012) is created. Clustering this set of publications, five subdomains are detected and analyzed in terms of authorship, citation, and word usage structures and dynamics. The scaling hypothesis of percolation theory is formulated for socio-cultural systems, namely that power-law size distributions like Lotka's, Bradford's, and Zipf's Law mean that the described identity resides at the phase transition between the stability and change of meaning. In this case, it can be diagnosed using bivariate scaling laws and Abbott's heuristic of fractal distinctions. Identities are not dichotomies but dualities of social network and cultural domain, micro and macro phenomena, as well as stability and change. Story sets that give direction to research fluctuate less, are less distinctive, and more inert than the individuals doing the research. Identities are scale-free. Six senses are diagnostic of different aspects of identity, and when they come together as process, a complex socio-cultural system comes into existence. A mutual benefit that results from mating Relational Sociology and Network Science is identified. The latter can learn from the former that social systems are dualities of transactions and meaning. For the social sciences, the importance of Paretian thinking (scale invariance) is pointed out.

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