selective negligence

Examples of selective negligence in the following topics:

• The Hidden Curriculum

  • For example, students may adopt a strategy of selective negligence. within the first month of classes, many students discover they cannot conceivably complete all the work assigned them; consequently, they must selectively neglect portions of the formal schoolwork.
  • For example, students may adopt a strategy of selective negligence.
  • Within the first month of classes, many students discover they cannot conceivably complete all the work assigned them; consequently, they must selectively neglect portions of the formal schoolwork.

• Mate Selection

  • There is wide cross-cultural variation in the social rules governing the selection of a partner for marriage.
  • There is wide cross-cultural variation in the social rules that govern the selection of marriage partners.
  • In some of these societies, individuals are only allowed to select partners from the individual's social group.
  • In other societies, on the other hand, partners can be selected from a different social group than one's own.
  • In cultures with fewer rules governing mate selection, the process of finding a partner might include courtship.

• Introduction to relations

  • The other half of the design of network data has to do with what ties or relations are to be measured for the selected nodes.
  • In many network studies, all of the ties of a given type among all of the selected nodes are studied -- that is, a census is conducted.
  • When we collect network data, we are usually selecting, or sampling, from among a set of kinds of relations that we might have measured.

• Language and Perception

  • The Universalist view holds that all humans share the same set of basic faculties, and that variability due to cultural differences is negligible.

• Visualizing multiplex relations

  • If the data have been stored as multiple matrices within the same file, when that file is opened (Netdraw>File>Open>UCINET dataset>Network) a Ties dialog box will allow you to select which matrix to view (as well as to set cut-off values for visualizing valued data).
  • An even more useful tool is found in Netdraw>Properties>Lines>Multi-relation selection.
  • The Relations dialog box allows you to select which relations you would like to view, and whether to view the union ("or") or intersection ("and") of the ties.

• Introduction to nodes

  • John has been selected to be in our sample.
  • The classroom itself, though, might have been selected by probability methods from a population of classrooms (say all of those in a school).
  • The use of whole populations as a way of selecting observations in (many) network studies makes it important for the analyst to be clear about the boundaries of each population to be studied, and how individual units of observation are to be selected within that population.

• Defining the Sample and Collecting Data

  • In statistics and survey methodology, sampling is concerned with the selection of a subset of individuals from within a statistical population to estimate characteristics of the whole population .
  • A probability sampling is one in which every unit in the population has a chance (greater than zero) of being selected in the sample, and this probability can be accurately determined.
  • Nonprobability sampling is any sampling method where some elements of the population have no chance of selection or where the probability of selection can't be accurately determined.
  • Sampling errors and biases, such as selection bias and random sampling error, are induced by the sample design.

• Relation properties

  • Then select Relations, and choose the color for each of the relations you want to graph (e.g. red for same-sex, blue for different-sex).
  • First select Properties>Lines>Node-attribute from the menus.
  • Then use the drop-down menu to select the attribute that you want to graph.
  • From the menus, select Properties>Lines>Size.
  • Then, select Tie-Strength and indicate which relation you want graphed.

• Sociobiology

  • Sociobiologists believe that human behavior, like nonhuman animal behavior, can be partly explained as the outcome of natural selection.
  • Natural selection is fundamental to evolutionary theory.
  • Following this evolutionary logic, sociobiologists are interested in how behavior can be explained as a result of selective pressures in the history of a species.
  • Discuss the concept of sociobiology in relation to natural selection and Charles Darwin, as well as genetics and instinctive behaviors

• Matrix permutation, blocks, and images

  • Transform>Block allows you to select a matrix to be blocked, a row and/or column partition, and a method for calculating the entries in the resulting blocks.
  • You may take the average of the values in the block (if the data are binary, taking the average is the same thing as calculating the density), sum the values in the block, select the highest value or the lowest value, or select a measure of the amount of variation among the scores in the block -- either the sums of squares or the standard deviation.
  • We might select, for example, to combine columns 1, 2, and 5, and rows 1, 2, and 5 by taking the average of the values (we could also select the maximum, minimum, or sum).
  • The command creates a new matrix that has collapsed the desired rows or columns using the summary operation you selected.
  • Data>Sort re-arranges the rows, columns, or both of the matrix according to a criterion you select.