Stowe Boyd over at Get Real has a very interesting post on E-SNA, sociology, and economics. The article is from the Visible Path journal and it details the work of a Harvard professor who used E-SNA in determining if there were social consequences for African American youth 'acting white'. In the study 'acting white' was related to having high academic achievement, and conforming to the integrated school settings. Interesting enough these social consequences were not present in non-integrated schools where good grades amongst a homogeneous population was not seen as 'acting white'. I am very interested in reading the complete article by Roland G. Fryer to understand how the social network analysis was completed.
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