ANR-Lab Open Seminar "Pride and Prejudice in Networks: How Network Structures Reveal the Mechanisms of Social Comparisons"

With the advent of electronic social networks, we have all encountered such a phenomenon as social comparison. Usually, the result of viewing posts of acquaintances who are constantly in expensive restaurants or on the beaches of Bali is some disappointment, but the phenomenon of social comparisons itself is much broader. It has been studied for a long time (remember the experiments of Asch), and a whole direction with its own traditions and approaches has already formed in social psychology. However, the key challenge for scientists both at the dawn of the direction and now remains the integration of various theories of social comparisons together. Sociological approaches, and especially network ones, can act as a means for such integration, because with their help it becomes possible to comprehensively explain social comparison by both individual and structural factors. At the seminar, we will discuss key studies in which social comparisons were studied from the point of view of network analysis, we will analyze the features of their conceptualization and the results that were obtained. The seminar will be useful for everyone interested in network analysis and its application to the study of fundamental aspects of social behavior.

Seminar language: Russian.
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