Philippine State Formation Mechanics - Part 1

Philippine State Formation Mechanics

Prospects of Social Network Analysis in

Philippine Politics

POLSC 251: Seminar in Philippine Political Institutions

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Social Network Analysis

Overview Introduction Social Network Analysis

Development and Concepts Political Networks

The Structural Perspective Utilizing Social Network Analysis in Philippine

Political Analysis Philippine State Formation

Agpalo’s Pangulo Regime & Sidel’s Bossism Prospects of Social Network Analysis

Conclusion


Introduction This section will constitute an appendix. Evaluation of a technique.

Not about the mathematical application of network analysis but the conceptual evaluation of this technique in utilizing it in Philippine political science research.

Possible advancement/s in the conceptualization and explanatory power of theories in community-level and national political structures or state formation.

Hypotheses-generating study.

Quantitative methods are underutilized in Philippine political analysis.


Philippine Political Science Journal (1999-2009)

Source: Dr. Julio C. Teehankee (2010), The Study of Politics in Southeast Asia - The Philippines in Southeast Asian Political Studies, Paper presented at the 60th Political Studies Association Annual Conference.


Social Network Analysis Uncovers patterning of people’s interaction.

Social structure. Social connections determine a person’s behavior.

Two commitments: Guided by formal theory in mathematical terms. Grounded in systematic analysis of empirical data.

Quantitative method, interdisciplinary specialty. Network of relationships have implications for the

success or failure of an individual or an organization (Kilduff & Tsai, 2003).


Development Three main traditions:

Sociometric analysis. Methods of graph theory.

Harvard 1930s researchers. Patterns of interpersonal relations and ‘cliques.’

Manchester anthropologists. Structure of ‘community’ relations in tribes and villages.

Harvard breakthrough in the 1960s, 1970s.


Development Kohler’s gestalt theory.

Thoughts/Perceptions considered as ‘wholes.’

Jacob Moreno - sociometric. How psychological well-being is related to the structural

features of ‘social configurations.’ Sociogram - individuals as points and social relationships

as lines. Sociometric ‘star’ - popular leader.

Lewin - A social group exists in a social ‘space.’ Structural properties of this social space, Lewin argued,

can be analysed through topology and set theory.


Development Heider - social psychology of attitudes and

perception. Newcomb - tendency for two people who are close

to one another to each adopt similar attitudes towards third parties or events.

Cartwright, Zander and Harary evolved powerful models of group cohesion, social pressure, cooperation, power and leadership. Cartwright and Harary analysed group structure from the

standpoint of each of its members simultaneously, not simply from the standpoint of a particular individual.


Development Group relations are in a dynamic flux with the final

balance/outcome resulting from actions and compromises of all participants involved.

Cartwright and Harary argued that complex social structures can be built from simple structure--overlapping ‘triads.’ These structures can be analysed as building blocks of

complex networks. Concept of balance between sub-groups.


Development Cohesive sub-groups.

Hawthorne, Yankee City, Old City studies. Stability, cohesion and integration in the structuring of

communities. ‘Clique’ - an informal (non-kin) association of people

among whom there is a degree of intimacy with certain group norms of behavior.

Society composed of overlapping cliques which integrate the entire population of a community.


Development Total and partial networks.

Manchester anthropologists, instead of emphasizing integration and cohesion, focused on conflict and change.

In response to the need for a new conceptual vocabulary for complex societies as opposed to kinship-based societies.

Patterns of interaction are built form two different ideal types of action.

Communication - transfer of information between individuals. Instrumental - transfer of goods and services between people.

Total network. From generating an ‘ego-centred’ network of social relations… To abstraction of the overall ‘global’ features of networks.


Development Harvard Breakthrough by Harrison White et al.

Algebraic models of groups using set theory to model kinship and other relations.

Multidimensional scaling for translating relationships into social ‘distances’ and mapping them in a social space.


Concepts Delineate a concrete population of social objects

and relationships connecting them. Units of analysis are not people, organizations or

nations, but the varying interactions that link a pair (dyad of an ego and alter) of social actors in the system.

Relationships have both form and content. Form - intensity and degree of joint involvement. Content - substantive meanings of network connections.


Concepts Principal types of data and their analyses:

Attribute data - properties, qualities or characteristics. Ex. Income, occupation, education. Variable analysis.

Relational data - contacts, ties and connections. Network analysis.

Ideational data - meanings, motives and definitions. Typological analysis.

Relational data are central to the principal concerns of the sociological tradition, with its emphasis upon the investigation of the structure of social action.


Concepts Density - ratio of the number of observed relations

to the potential number. Path - exists between a pair of actors if a sequence

of directed ties links them through an intervening set of points. Actor - reachable a direct or indirect path connects them. Cut point - actors appears to play a liaison or broker.

Granovetter’s strength of weak ties.

Prominence - prestige or centrality. Cohesion and structural equivalence.

Philippine State Formation Mechanics

Prospects of Social Network Analysis in

Philippine Politics

POLSC 251: Seminar in Philippine Political Institutions

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Philippine State Formation Mechanics - Part 1

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