Close friends

(noun)

They are examples of primary groups.

Related Terms

Examples of Close friends in the following topics:

  • Directed or "bonded" Ties in the graph

    • In our example, we asked each member of the group to choose which others in the group they regarded as close friends.
    • Each alter does not necessarily feel the same way about each tie as ego does: Bob may regard himself as a good friend to Alice, but Alice does not necessarily regard Bob as a good friend.
    • Such a graph would say "there is a relationship called close friend which ties Bob and Ted together. " The distinction can be subtle, but it is important in some analyses.

  • Levels of measurement: Binary, signed, and valued graphs

    • In describing the pattern of who describes whom as a close friend, we could have asked our question in several different ways.
    • If we asked each respondent "is this person a close friend or not," we are asking for a binary choice: each person is or is not chosen by each interviewee.

  • Primary and Secondary Groups

    • A Primary group is typically a small social group whose members share close, personal, enduring relationships.
    • Families and close friends are examples of primary groups

  • Primary Groups

    • A primary group is typically a small social group whose members share close, personal, enduring relationships.
    • A primary group is typically a small social group whose members share close, personal, enduring relationships.
    • Families and close friends are examples of primary groups.

  • Differences Between Public Speaking and Conversation

    • When you sit down and have a conversation with a close friend, either face-to-face or via text message or chat, you might find that your language and tone are far more casual than if you were to sit down and have a conversation with, say, your doctor.
    • When speeches are designed to "inform, influence, or entertain," they require a certain formality of speaking compared to a casual conversation between friends.
    • Slang, profanity, and poor grammar might be accepted between friends but are definitely not appropriate for any kind of public address or speech.

  • The "adjacency" matrix

    • If Bob and Carol are "friends" they share a "bonded tie" and the entry in the Xi,j cell will be the same as the entry in the Xj,i cell.
    • Bob may feel close to Carol, but Carol may not feel the same way about Bob.
    • That is, for example, does Bob regard himself as a close friend of Bob?
    • If I take all of the elements of a row (e.g. who Bob chose as friends: ---,1,1,0) I am examining the "row vector" for Bob.
    • If I look only at who chose Bob as a friend (the first column, or ---,0,1,0), I am examining the "column vector" for Bob.

  • Bonacich's approach

    • Suppose that Bill and Fred each have five close friends.
    • Bill's friends, however, happen to be pretty isolated folks, and don't have many other friends, save Bill.
    • In contrast, Fred's friends each also have lots of friends, who have lots of friends, and so on.

  • Isolation and Development

    • Individuals with vibrant social networks are more likely to encounter friends, family, or acquaintances who encourage them to visit the doctor to get a persistent cough checked out, whereas an isolated individual may allow the cough to progress until they experience serious difficulty breathing.
    • Older adults are especially prone to social isolation as their families and friends pass away.
    • These effects are different from receiving direct support from a friend; instead, they are based on the ties that close social ties provide to more distant connections.
    • Chat rooms, message boards, and other types of communities are now meeting social needs for those who would rather stay home alone, yet still develop communities of online friends.

  • Overview of networks and actors

    • The second major (but closely related) set of approaches that we will examine in this chapter have to do with the idea of the distance between actors (or, conversely how close they are to one another).
    • Some actors may be able to reach most other members of the population with little effort: they tell their friends, who tell their friends, and "everyone" knows.
    • Thinking about it the other way around, if all of my friends have one another as friends, my network is fairly limited -- even though I may have quite a few friends.
    • But, if my friends have many non-overlapping connections, the range of my connection is expanded.
    • If individuals differ in their closeness to other actors, then the possibility of stratification along this dimension arises.

  • N-cliques

    • You can probably think of cases of "cliques" where at least some members are not so tightly or closely connected.
    • This corresponds to being "a friend of a friend."
    • Because our definition of how closely linked actors must be to be members of a clique has been relaxed, there are fewer maximal cliques.