Network effects and social inequality

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 38, Issue , 2012, Pages 93-118

  Dimaggio, Paul ^a   Garip, Filiz ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cumulative advantage; Diffusion; Externalities; Homophily; Spillovers; Threshold models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864199024     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.012809.102545     Document Type: Review

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