| CP: | Course Pack. Reading packet available in the bookstore. |
| AR: | Additional Readings. A packet of readings on reserve at the library. This packet contains everything that is in CP, plus additional papers. |
| F: | Manufacturing Tales by Gary Alan Fine, in bookstore |
| DT90: | You Just Don't Understand by Deborah Tannen, in bookstore |
| DT94: | Talking 9 to 5 by Deborah Tannen, in bookstore |
| R&D: | Management and the Worker. by Roethlisberger and Dickson. Read the chapters on the bank wiring room experiments. |
| WG: | Advances in Social Network Analysis. Wasserman and Galaskiewicz |
| Topic | Reading | Homework | |
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9/3 |
Introduction; in-class questionnaire; photos | Sign-up for class listserv |
| Topic | Reading | Homework | |
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9/8 |
Concept of Social Networks; in-class questionnaire; | What is Network Analysis?; History of Network; Analysis; | Biography |
9/10 |
6 Degrees of Separation; video | Travers & Milgram (CP); Notes on Travers & Milgram; Diffusion |
| Topic | Reading | Homework | |
|---|---|---|---|
9/15 |
Representing Networks | Graph Theory; Matrices; WG:1(pp3-9). |
Ego-Net Inventory, Part 1 |
9/17 |
Notion of Centrality: Cases | Measures
of Centrality; Pitts (CP); Notes on Pitts |
(Parent's weekend)
| Topic | Reading | Homework | |
|---|---|---|---|
9/22 |
Task Performance | Leavitt article (AR); Bavelas/Leavitt |
Ego-Net #2 |
9/24 |
Structural Holes | Holes | Extra credit Network puzzle |
| Topic | Reading | Homework | |
|---|---|---|---|
9/29 |
Ego-Networks | Ego-nets;
WG:3 Social Support |
Ego-Net #3 |
10/1 |
Getting a Job | Granovetter '73 (CP); SWT |
| Topic | Reading | Homework | |
|---|---|---|---|
10/6 |
Embeddedness | Granovetter '85 (AR); Uzzi (CP); |
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10/8 |
Embeddedness | Jones
et al 1997; WG:9 |
*Start reading about Urban Legends! and go see the movie!!
| Topic | Reading | Homework | |
|---|---|---|---|
10/13 |
Boundaryless careers | Jones et al 1998 | |
10/15 |
Urban Legends | F:1-3 | Small World Exercise |
| Topic | Reading | Homework | |
|---|---|---|---|
10/20 |
Urban Legends | F:4-6; Dangerous Products; | |
10/22 |
Midterm due | Weeks 1 to 7 | Midterm |
| Topic | Reading | Homework | |
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10/27 |
Urban Legends | F:7-9; Dangerous Capitalism; McLibel Case; Notes on Allport; |
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10/29 |
Rumors & Gossip | F:10-11; Corporate Redemption; WG:4; Notes on sense-making |
(start of advising period)
| Topic | Reading | Homework | |
|---|---|---|---|
11/3 |
Informal Organization | R&D; Informal organization; WG:8 |
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11/5 |
Informal Organization | Krackhardt & Hanson (AR); Notes on K&H; Notes on Gouldner's Gypsum Plant |
| Topic | Reading | Homework | |
|---|---|---|---|
11/10 |
Communication Processes | Micro-communication processes; DT90:1-5 plus preface |
Rumor paper |
11/12 |
Mitigation | DT90:6-8; notes |
| Topic | Reading | Homework | |
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11/17 |
Indirection | DT90:9-10; DT94:1-3+preface; Conversation rituals; | |
11/19 |
Gender | DT94:4-7; Indirection; Markedness |
| Topic | Reading | Homework | |
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11/24 |
Non-verbal | Informal Org | |
11/26 |
Thanksgiving |
(Nov 30th is last day to withdraw)
| Topic | Reading | Homework | |
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12/1 |
Cross-Cultural | cross-cultural; cultural differences | |
12/3 |
Cross-Cultural |
| Topic | Reading | Homework | |
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12/8 |
Wrap-Up | Final Thoughts | |
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Micro-Communication paper -- due on the day of the final (Monday, December 14th, 1998)
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