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  2. Status inconsistency - Wikipedia

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    Status inconsistency is a situation where an individual's social positions have both positive and negative influences on their social status.For example, a teacher may have a positive societal image (respect, prestige) which increases their status but may earn little money, which simultaneously decreases their status.

  3. Weak consistency - Wikipedia

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    The name weak consistency can be used in two senses. In the first sense, strict and more popular, weak consistency is one of the consistency models used in the domain of concurrent programming (e.g. in distributed shared memory, distributed transactions etc.). A protocol is said to support weak consistency if:

  4. Consistency model - Wikipedia

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    The release consistency model relaxes the weak consistency model by distinguishing the entrance synchronization operation from the exit synchronization operation. Under weak ordering, when a synchronization operation is to be seen, all operations in all processors need to be visible before the synchronization operation is done and the processor ...

  5. Interpersonal ties - Wikipedia

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    Interpersonal ties, generally, come in three varieties: strong, weak or absent. Weak social ties, it is argued, are responsible for the majority of the embeddedness and structure of social networks in society as well as the transmission of information through these networks. Specifically, more novel information flows to individuals through weak ...

  6. Social balance theory - Wikipedia

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    Structural balance theory, proposed by the psychologist Fritz Heider in the 1940s, is a framework used to understand the dynamics of relationships within social networks. The theory focuses on the notion that individuals strive for consistency and harmony in their interpersonal relationships.

  7. Mark Granovetter - Wikipedia

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    Mark Sanford Granovetter (/ ˈ ɡ r æ n ə v ɛ t ər /; born October 20, 1943) is an American sociologist and professor at Stanford University. [2] He is best known for his work in social network theory and in economic sociology, particularly his theory on the spread of information in social networks known as The Strength of Weak Ties (1973). [3]

  8. Comcast- A "Model of Consistency" - AOL

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    But Comcast Corp (CMCSA) remains a model of consistency, adding new business while growing cash flow and dividends, suggests Roger Conrad, editor of Conrad's Utility Investor. Comcast- A "Model of ...

  9. Social network (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia

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    [21] [23] Weak-tie social network theory postulates that linguistic variables are spread by means of weak, uni-dimensional social links between non-central individuals. Therefore it is the case that language change will have the propensity to be faster in larger communities rather than in smaller communities. [ 24 ]