TY - JOUR
T1 - Structural measures of personal networks predict migrants' cultural backgrounds
T2 - An explanation from Grid/Group theory
AU - Molina, José Luis
AU - Ozaita, Juan
AU - Tamarit, Ignacio
AU - Sánchez, Angel
AU - McCarty, Christopher
AU - Bernard, H. Russell
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2022.
PY - 2022/9/1
Y1 - 2022/9/1
N2 - Culture and social structure are not separated analytical domains but intertwined phenomena observable in personal networks. Drawing on a personal networks dataset of migrants in the United States and Spain, we show that the country of origin, a proxy for diverse languages and cultural institutions, and religion may be predicted by specific combinations of personal network structural measures (closeness, clustering, betweenness, average degree, etc). We obtain similar results applying three different methods (a multinomial logistic regression, a Random Forest algorithm, and an artificial neural network). This finding is explained within the framework of the Grid/Group theory that has long posed the interdependence of social structural and cultural features of human groups.
AB - Culture and social structure are not separated analytical domains but intertwined phenomena observable in personal networks. Drawing on a personal networks dataset of migrants in the United States and Spain, we show that the country of origin, a proxy for diverse languages and cultural institutions, and religion may be predicted by specific combinations of personal network structural measures (closeness, clustering, betweenness, average degree, etc). We obtain similar results applying three different methods (a multinomial logistic regression, a Random Forest algorithm, and an artificial neural network). This finding is explained within the framework of the Grid/Group theory that has long posed the interdependence of social structural and cultural features of human groups.
KW - cultural signature
KW - grid/group theory
KW - migration
KW - personal networks
KW - social signature
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U2 - 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac195
DO - 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac195
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85177227524
SN - 2752-6542
VL - 1
JO - PNAS Nexus
JF - PNAS Nexus
IS - 4
M1 - pgac195
ER -