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The Human Network: How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors
Written by Matthew O. Jackson
Narrated by Donald Corren
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Here is a fresh, intriguing, and, above all, authoritative book about how our sometimes hidden positions in various social structures-our human networks-shape how we think and behave, and inform our very outlook on life. Inequality, social immobility, and political polarization are only a few crucial phenomena driven by the inevitability of social structures. Social structures determine who has power and influence, account for why people fail to assimilate basic facts, and enlarge our understanding of patterns of contagion-from the spread of disease to financial crises. Despite their primary role in shaping our lives, human networks are often overlooked when we try to account for our most important political and economic practices. Matthew O. Jackson brilliantly illuminates the complexity of the social networks in which we are-often unwittingly-positioned and aims to facilitate a deeper appreciation of why we are who we are. Ranging across disciplines-psychology, behavioral economics, sociology, and business-and rich with historical analogies and anecdotes, The Human Network provides a galvanizing account of what can drive success or failure in life.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5In case you didn't know there's a new area of study in academia called network theory. Jackson's a good guide through how visually mapping nodes in human networks illuminates many aspects of how society and information works. For example it illustrates the way in which power is influenced by certain people in networks disproportionately (take the Medici who were central in many of Renaissance Florence's social networks through strategic marriages of family members), or how information bias can result from just getting information through a social network (we gravitate towards people like us, homophily, and then double count information when one person hears something from one of our friends and then tells us to us and then we hear it from the friend - thus social media bubbles in part). In the year of a global health pandemic we need to understand human social networks better than ever before - and thankfully here we have an up to date overview of how they work. Many of the observations require looking at actual network maps rather than laboriously trying to verbally articulate the predicament - so grab the book and have a look.