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This paper presents a systematic approach for analyzing and explaining the nature of social groups. I argue against prominent views that attempt to unify all social groups or to divide them into simple typologies. Instead I argue that social groups are enormously diverse, but show how we can investigate their natures nonetheless. I analyze social groups from a bottom-up perspective, constructing profiles...
Opinion dynamics is a collective decision making and focuses on the study of evolution and formation of opinions in a social group. Bounded confidence rule is one of intrinsical interaction principles in the human behavior dynamics. When there is no opinion leader in a social group, for a bounded confidence based opinion dynamics, the evolution of the collective opinion of the group generally depends...
With the information network technology advances and the rapid increase in the number of netizens, the network society shows a certain degree of the virtual state of harmonious interaction. In this ideal type of social behaviour, the specific network of social groups and organizations has always maintained a virtual and physical interaction of the binary pattern, and a corresponding mechanism for...
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