Communities of Practice, Consensus, and Core-Periphery Structures

Contents

1. Implications of Core/Periphery Structures
   
   
2. Conceptual Map
   
   
3. Core/Periphery Structures
   
   
4. Characterizing C/P Structure
   
   
5. Cultural Consensus Theory
   
   
6. CCT & C/P
   
   
7. Communities of Practice
   
   
8. Characteristics of C of P
   
   
9. CoP and C/P
   
   
10. On Short Distances
    
    
11. Graph-Theoretic Literature
    
    
12. Social Science Literature
    
    
13. Mean distance declines with density
    
    
14. Mean distance declines with density
    
    
15. Granovetter's Weak Ties
    
    
16. Watts & Strogatz' Small Worlds
    
    
17. Adding Shortcuts
    
    
18. Degree Variance
    
    
19. Correlation between Degree Variance and Mean Distance as a function of Density
    
    
20. Impact of Degree Variance on
    
    
21. Line Graph Density (2)
    
    
22. Mean Distance in Core/Periphery Structures
    
    
23. Mean distance declines with density
    
    
24. Increasing Density: Add n-2 edges
    
    
25. Core/Periphery Structures have shorter distances
    
    
26. Conjectures on Minimum Distance
    
    
27. C/P & Group Performance
    
    
28. Group 1
    
    
29. Group 2
    
    
30. Group 3
    
    
31. Parting Thoughts
    
    
32. Constellations
    
    
33. March Madness
    
    
34. March Simulation
    
    
35. Random Graph Procedures
    
    

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May 28, 2000 (Sunday)