May 06, 2010 interview of American medical sociologist Nicholas Christakis on his 2009 book Connected, and how he likes to explain or view the properties of social networks based on the ordering of the ties of the individuals similar to the way graphite and diamond have different properties, depending in their internal carbon atom ties. Interview:
http://bigthink.com/ideas/19931
Article:
http://www.eoht.info/page/Nicholas+Christakis
To keep everyone in the loop, Christakis' carbon bonding social network theory is a sort of modified spin-off of American sociologist Mark Granovetter’s 1969 hydrogen bonding based weak ties and strong ties sociology model, whom he cites in his book (Connected).
HumanChemistry101 1 year ago