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🎙️🎉 Welcome to Revise and Resubmit, your weekend intellectual adventure — and this is your favorite retro rewind segment, Weekend Classics! 🎧📚
Today, we’re cranking up the academic time machine and heading back to May 1973, when the American Journal of Sociology published a paper that shook the foundation of how we understand… friendship. 🤝✨ But not the warm-and-fuzzy kind. Oh no. We're diving deep into something cooler, quieter, almost invisible — the weak ties.
🧠 Written by the brilliant Mark S. Granovetter, The Strength of Weak Ties was more than a paper — it was a wake-up call to every sociologist who thought only tight-knit circles mattered. Granovetter flipped the script and showed us that the people you barely know might change your life more than your best friends ever could. 🤯📈
From job opportunities to groundbreaking ideas, weak ties — those casual acquaintances, the friend-of-a-friend — are the silent superhighways through which information really travels. 🚀🔗 He built a bridge between the micro and the macro, the personal and the structural, and he did it with the elegance of a social science ninja. 🥋📊
So, what happens when the weakest links turn out to be society's strongest force? And if your closest friends are keeping you comfortable... who's pushing you forward? 🤔🌍
🔔 Thanks to Mark S. Granovetter for this timeless classic that still echoes through every LinkedIn connection and group chat today!
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👀 Here's our question for you:
If your next big opportunity doesn’t come from your best friend… who will it come from? 🤝💭
Reference
Granovetter, M. S. (1973). The Strength of Weak Ties. American Journal of Sociology, 78(6), 1360–1380. https://doi.org/10.1086/225469
De witte, M. (2023, July 24). 50 years on, Mark Granovetter’s ‘The Strength of Weak Ties’ is stronger than ever. news.stanford.edu.
Open Access Paper made available by Stanford Network Analysis Project (SNAP)
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