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Homophily influences ranking of minorities in social networks
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Abstract Homophily can put minority groups at a disadvantage by restricting their ability to establish links with a majority group or to access novel information. Here, we show how this phenomenon can influence the ranking of minorities in examples of real-world networks with various levels of heterophily an... mehr
Homophily can put minority groups at a disadvantage by restricting their ability to establish links with a majority group or to access novel information. Here, we show how this phenomenon can influence the ranking of minorities in examples of real-world networks with various levels of heterophily and homophily ranging from sexual contacts, dating contacts, scientific collaborations, and scientific citations. We devise a social network model with tunable homophily and group sizes, and demonstrate how the degree ranking of nodes from the minority group in a network is a function of (i) relative group sizes and (ii) the presence or absence of homophilic behaviour. We provide analytical insights on how the ranking of the minority can be improved to ensure the representativeness of the group and correct for potential biases. Our work presents a foundation for assessing the impact of homophilic and heterophilic behaviour on minorities in social networks.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Minderheit; Benachteiligung; soziales Netzwerk; Interaktion; Gruppengröße
Klassifikation
interaktive, elektronische Medien
Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Computational science; Information theory and computation
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2018
Seitenangabe
S. 1-12
Zeitschriftentitel
Scientific Reports, 8 (2018)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29405-7
ISSN
2045-2322
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)