On the one hand, the workers tend to be more obedient due to shared social ties with their employer, while on the other hand, they expect a certain reciprocity and particularistic treatment from such relations.
Transition probabilities depend on the health of others with whom there are shared social ties.
Their principal finding was that the probability of becoming obese increases when people with whom there are shared social ties become obese.
The definition of 'community' adopted in Mwanza was conceived and articulated by study participants who perceived themselves not only as part of an occupational group, but as a discrete community with shared social ties, perspectives and experiences within a defined geographical location [ 34, 35].
Professor Centola then randomly assigned participants to one of two social network designs: one was set up like a residential neighborhood, with clusters of overlapping ties among neighbors; the other was a casual network where people did not share social ties.
We're meeting more and more people who we share no social ties with, no mutual friends or coworkers to hold us accountable to treating those who like us as human beings worthy of respect.
A particularly interesting observation from our study is the participants' willingness to invest more effort on the behalf of some of their peers (those with whom they share a very strong social tie) than for themselves.
If it means anything, the establishment represents the concentration of power in an elite, the members of which are bound together by social ties, shared values and unspoken rules.
But Lebanon's dysfunctional state is having trouble disentangling itself from a country with which it shares strong historical and social ties.
People use social media for everything from forging new social ties, sharing information about what is happening in society and what they're doing, to talking about products, companies and their next prime minister.
(b) Fraction of social ties sharing a common commute mode choice with the transit ego-subjects, across a range of tie strength values.
