influence

Examples of influence in the following topics:

• The Future of Culture

  • Examine how the process of globalization is predicted to influence the future of culture.

• Study questions

  • How does Bonacich's influence measure extend the idea of degree centrality?
  • Why does betweenness give an actor power or influence?
  • Most approaches suggest that centrality confers power and influence.
  • Bonacich suggests that power and influence are not the same thing.
  • Which studies used the ideas of structural advantage, centrality, power and influence?

• Politics

  • The higher one's social class, the higher their levels of political participation and political influence.
  • Social class impacts one's level of political participation and political influence.
  • Political influence refers to the extent to which one's political participation achieves its desired results.
  • This trend means that middle and upper class individuals have greater political participation and greater political influence than those in lower positions.

• Hubbell, Katz, Taylor, Stephenson and Zelen influence

  • In some cases, power or influence may be expressed through all of the pathways that connect an actor to all others.
  • Several measures of closeness based on all connections of ego to others are available from Network>Centrality>Influence.
  • If we are more specifically interested in the influence of A on B in a directed graph, the Taylor influence approach provides an interesting alternative.
  • Positive values then reflect a preponderance of sending over receiving to the other actor of the pair -- or a balance of influence between the two.
  • Note that the newspaper (#7) shows as being a net influencer with respect to most other actors in the result below, while the welfare rights organization (#6) has a negative balance of influence with most other actors.

• Integration Theory

  • The integration approach is particularly useful for explaining social phenomenon because it shows how the different components of social life work together to influence society and behavior.
  • If used for understanding a specific cultural phenomenon, like the displaying of abstract art in one's home, the integration model depicts the different influences on the decision.
  • For instance, the model depicts that cultural norms can influence individual behavior.
  • The model also shows that individual level values, beliefs, and behaviors influence macro-level culture.
  • This would indicate that there are multiple levels of influence involved in art tastes – both broad cultural norms and smaller level occupational norms in addition to personal preferences.

• Power

  • Power is frequently defined as the ability to influence the behavior of others with or without resistance.
  • Power is frequently defined by political scientists as the ability to influence the behavior of others with or without resistance.
  • At one extreme, power closely resembles what English speakers call "influence", although some authors make a distinction between the two.
  • Power may derive from a number of sources, including social class (material wealth can equal power), resource currency (material items such as money, property, food), personal or group charisma, ascribed power (acting on perceived or assumed abilities, whether these bear testing or not), social influence of tradition (compare ascribed power), etc.
  • People use more than rewards, threats and information to influence others.

• Peer Groups

  • A peer group, whose members have interests, social positions, and age in common, have an influence on the socialization of group members.
  • The influence of the peer group typically peaks during adolescence.
  • However, peer groups generally only affect short term interests unlike the family, which has long term influence.
  • Peer groups have a significant influence on psychological and social adjustments for group individuals.

• Teachers' Expectations

  • Teachers' perception of students' knowledge and abilities influences classroom processes and student achievement.
  • How teachers perceive students' knowledge and abilities influences classroom processes and student achievement.
  • This influence can be beneficial as well as detrimental depending on which label an individual is assigned.
  • Therefore, these stereotypes can influence student achievement in these areas.
  • Discuss how a teacher's perception influences student performance, in terms of expectations and gender stereotypes

• Gender and Research

  • Gender, and how it is shaped by societal influences, is an important focus of much sociological research.
  • Sociological research will study such things as social stratification between genders, the socialization of gender, influences of sexism on educational performance, gender and mass media, inequality in the workplace, gender roles and social norms , and other gender-related topics and social phenomena.
  • A core research area within sociology is the way human behavior operates on itself; in other words, how the behavior of one group or individual influences the behavior of other groups or individuals.
  • Other conceptions of gender influenced by queer theory see gender as multidimensional, fluid and shifting; something that cannot be plotted linearly at all.
  • Social research will often focus on the influence of gender roles in the workplace, at home, and in other aspects of society.

• Power

  • With downward power, a company's superior influences subordinates.
  • When a company exerts upward power, it is the subordinates who influence the decisions of the leader.
  • At one extreme, it more closely resembles what everyday English-speakers call "influence," or the means by which power is used.