同性恋
种族(生物学)
友谊
社会学
社交网络(社会语言学)
民族志
社会网络分析
多样性(控制论)
人际关系
社会融合
人口统计学的
社会心理学
性别研究
心理学
社会科学
政治学
计算机科学
人口学
社会资本
人类学
法学
人工智能
社会化媒体
作者
Norman Conti,Patrick Doreian
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.socnet.2009.08.001
摘要
This research examined an attempt to facilitate racial integration by populating squads (i.e., workgroups) in a police academy with mixes of recruits that reflected the racial demographics of the larger cohort. This was part of the social infrastructure of the academy. Additionally, a fixed seating arrangement was considered as a second element of academy infrastructure capable of impacting racial integration. We examined the consequences of these academy components over time with regard to race by combining ethnographic accounts with social network data collected throughout the academy and using a variety of network analytic tools. These consequences with regard to race were examined as a part of social network evolution. The academy's social arrangements did accelerate the creation of social knowledge of recruits about each other and the formation of friendship ties both within and between races. However, our results point to clear limitations to such infrastructural engineering and have implications for both recruitment to police academies and dealing with race. They shed light also on processes of homophily and group composition over time and have implications for studying social networks.
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