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José Luis Molina1, Juan Ozaita2,3, Ignacio Tamarit2
1GRAFO-Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), 08193 Bellaterra, Spain.
Abstract:
Culture and social structure are not separated analytical domains but intertwined phenomena observable in personal networks. Drawing on a personal networks dataset of migrants in the United States and Spain, we show that the country of origin, a proxy for diverse languages and cultural institutions, and religion may be predicted by specific combinations of personal network structural measures (closeness, clustering, betweenness, average degree, etc). We obtain similar results applying three different methods (a multinomial logistic regression, a Random Forest algorithm, and an artificial neural network). This finding is explained within the framework of the Grid/Group theory that has long posed the interdependence of social structural and cultural features of human groups.
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