social networks and communities of practice

1. Social Networks and Communities
of Practice
Sonya Ayu Kumala, M.Hum
Universitas Muhammadiyah Tangerang

2.  Social network is the realtionship (individual) with
others through social and geographical space linking
many individuals.
 Pattern of associations are between people who are
friends or roughly social equals within a community.
 In sociolinguistics study, social network is used as
basic for analysing linguistcs variation
What is social network?

3.  Linguistics diffusion = horizontal channel, vertical
channel.
Horizontal channel= within one age group and social
cohort
Vertical channel= channels between generations or
across big social divides

4.  Social network is grouping based on frequency and
quality of members interaction.
 Social class is a function of the interaction of a whole
lot of different social attributes.
Social class vs Social network

5. SOCIAL CLASS
 Grouping people into social class involving the
social matters/social attributes.
 Ex: the height of education, how prestigious
the job, etc.
SOCIAL NETWORK
 Grouping people based on the idiosyncratic
factors.
 Idiosyncratics = special, specifics.
 Network= How often they are the same?
Different?
 Ex: who your firends, who you live near, who
you have dinner with, who you have work
with, etc.

6.  A. Observing the interaction in community (how,
why)
 B. Let the object define their own social network.
Identifying the social network in
community

7.  Core network member: the members centrally
involved and actively participating in a friendship
network.
 Peripheral and secondary network members: the
members who less integrated or involved to the
friendship network.

8.  Dense network: Everyone within the network
knowing each other.
 Slow down or inhibit change.
 Loose network: Not all members know each other
within social network.
 Open to change
Dense and Loose Network

9.  Uniplex tie: a network tie between individuals that
expresses one role or basis for contact and
interaction.
 If the network tie between two individuals is based
only on one relationship.
 Example: two people work together, having the same
swim club for children, mother-daughter
Uniplex tie and Multiplex ties

10.  Multiplex: Individuals in a social network can be
linked trough a single social relationship.
 If the network tie between two people know each
other in several different roles.
 Example: friend, classmate, working place

11.  Communities of practice were the first knowledge-based social structures
and arose when people realized they could benefit from sharing their
knowledge, insights and experiences with others with similar interests or
goals.
 A smaller unit than social network
 The co-membership is defined on three criteria.
a. Mutual engagement
b. A jointly negotiated enterprise
c. Shared repertoire
Community of practice

12.  Mutual engagement: coming together in direct
personal contact.
 If there is no ties at least they inherit the same ties.
 Shared repertoire: member or community practice
shared ways of pronouncing the words, shared
jargon, slang, jokes, etc.

13.  Jointly negotiated enterprise: the members of
community of practice are wrking toward the same
shared goal or defining/satisfying the same specific
enterprise.