Open AccessNETWORK INTERACTIONS WITHIN A REGIONAL COMMUNITY
Author(s) -
Ластовкина Дарья Александровна
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
society and security insights
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2619-0249
pISSN - 2619-0230
DOI - 10.14258/ssi(2021)1-09
Subject(s) - modernization theory , politics , social network (sociolinguistics) , sociology , natural (archaeology) , space (punctuation) , social change , phenomenon , social science , regional science , civil society , social network analysis , economic geography , epistemology , political science , economic growth , geography , computer science , economics , social capital , philosophy , archaeology , law , social media , operating system
The communication space of modern society is rapidly expanding its boundaries. First of all, this can be traced in the modernization of old and the emergence of new types of interaction between individuals in the economic, political, social, spiritual spheres of society. The topic of social networks, as one of the areas of research in theoretical sociology, can be characterized as promising and actively developing, that is especially due to the fact that the network theory is the most natural for the analysis of social structure. In a broad sense, a social network is understood as many points (participants of a social system) related to each other to a greater or lesser extent. The first part of the article presents a theoretical analysis of the evolution of social network theory in the works of foreign researchers, describes a graphic model of its incremental development. The second part offers the analysis of the functioning of social networks in the regional communities (Cherepovets, Vologda) on the basis of the survey "Barriers to civil participation and mechanisms for overcoming them at the regional level", which was conducted by the Vologda Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2019. In conclusion, we formulate the main conclusions about the functioning of social networks in given regional communities, and develop recommendations for further empirical study of this phenomenon.