Social Network Analysis

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2 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Social Network Analysis.

• Blockmodeling — A social-network analysis framework that partitions actors into position classes whose tie patterns form an interpretable reduced block structure.
• Six degrees of separation — The small-world claim that arbitrary people in a large social network are connected by surprisingly short acquaintance chains, popularly summarized as at most six intermediating links.