Threshold models of social influence

The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 475-497

  Watts, Duncan J ^a   Dodds, Peter ^b  

^a Nuffield College ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascades; Collective behavior; Collective decision making; Generalized affiliation networks; Influence networks; Random networks; Random group networks; Social groups; Social influence; Threshold models

Indexed keywords

EID: 85061122285     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199215362.013.20     Document Type: Chapter

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