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***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** Dear all & Robert, The question about homophily for attributes over which the actors have control is central to the paper Steglich, C.E.G., Snijders, T.A.B. and Pearson, M. Dynamic Networks and Behavior: Separating Selection from Influence. To be published, Sociological Methodology, 2010. http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~snijders/siena/SteglichSnijdersPearson2009.pdf Two very small data sets that satisfy your requirements are the Knecht and the s50 data sets at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~snijders/siena/siena_datasets.htm Best wishes, Tom Robert Ackland wrote: > ---------------------- Information from the mail header ----------------------- > Sender: Social Networks Discussion Forum <[log in to unmask]> > Poster: Robert Ackland <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: networks where actors exhibit homophily > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** > > Dear list members, > > A colleague and I are looking for social network datasets where actors > exhibit homophily i.e. similar individuals more likely to form network > ties with one another. We are only interested in homophily over > attributes which can be chosen by the actors - political affiliation > (right/left) and brand preference (e.g. over music, consumer items) > are good examples. An example of a network dataset we are already > working with is the hyperlink network of approx. 1500 political > bloggers (coded as conservative or liberal) from Adamic, L. and > Glance, N. (2005) "The political blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. > election: Divided they blog". > > I will be happy to post back to this list the details of > publicly-available network datasets (fitting the criterion) that we > find out about. If you have a dataset that is not publicly available, > we of course would be happy to give appropriate attribution if we can > use it in our research. > > Rob > ------------------------------------- > Dr Robert Ackland > Fellow and Masters Coordinator, Australian Demographic and Social > Research Institute, The Australian National University > > e-mail: [log in to unmask] > homepage: http://adsri.anu.edu.au/people/robert.php > project: http://voson.anu.edu.au > > Information about the Master of Social Research > (Social Science of the Internet specialisation): > http://adsri.anu.edu.au/study/msr.php > ------------------------------------- > > _____________________________________________________________________ > SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social > network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send > an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line > UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message. _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.