Theories of Networks and Communities
Across
- 1. The degree to which a community is prepared to take action on a specific issue.
- 4. The tendency for people to have relationships with others who have similar attributes.
- 6. The process by which an innovation moves through channels of a social system.
- 7. Local, state, and national laws, decisions, and plans that create built and social environments and systems.
- 8. The number of connections in the network as a proportion of those possible.
- 9. Ideas, practices, or objects that are perceived as new by an individual or other unit of adoption.
- 10. The spread of a behavior or trait from one person to another.
Down
- 2. The active process of using planned strategies to spread information to promote adoption.
- 3. A group of people who have something in common, whether it is a trait, an interest, geographical proximity, or a common goal.
- 5. The interconnectedness and solidarity of the network actors: a function of the strength of ties, distance, and density.