Leaving bonds followed by homophily
Blog Post 1: Leaving bonds followed by homophily
People were born with such small bonds but gradually get bigger and bigger even without effort. However, it is common that people get to discover differences in personality, background, taste, and also nature such as how they identify themself. In most cases, being born into a family already gives you a strong connection with all the family members. “When two individuals have one mutual, there is a high possibility that they will be friends in the future”. Environment builds networks and homophily would be a word to describe this. All the friend connections that we have are not formed randomly. We can classify what is the influential components when we are making friends. There are two categories of influences when choosing a connection. First, we choose someone who is already determined at birth, my age, race, or gender, or who is similar to my beliefs, interests, and behaviors. The second would be social infrastructure. Social influence is formed by a suitable friend or affiliation. “Birds of the feather flock together”. If you look at social networks, there are a lot of similar relationships between children. So why does this happen? They may have become friends because they resemble each other, or they may have become similar because they are friends. The forces that make the network homogeneous are usually cited as the following three.
The article is about how the younger LGBTQ community should take a risk of being independent of their family because of the fact that their natural identity does not bond with their family. It is highly likely for them to be rejected since it is rare for them to find strong bonds among families with no connectivity. In a network of friendships, a node in each person, and the characteristic of that node is the area where people live. Homophily would be the reverse node which has similar characteristics to the other nodes, so the two may be connected. In this case, LGBTQ youth can be connected because they are a minority who revealed the same minority with each other. Not internal forces in the network but all external influences, they can be a strong tie. Sometimes the characteristics of a node are unordered values. For example, in a network of friendships, a node is each person, and the characteristic of that node is the area where people live. In the case of a region, it is a nominal characteristic because it cannot be counted. However, homophily, in other words, because one node has similar characteristics to another node, the two may be connected. The force that a node’s characteristics exert on its connectivity is called homogeneity. In this case, we’re talking about being friends because we’re alike.