1. Explain the concept of “six degrees of separation.”
2. Describe what a connector is and explain why they are so
successful at bringing people together.
3. According to Gladwell, what is the basis for most
friendships?
4. Gladwell writes that in finding a job, “weak ties are more
important than strong ties.” Explain.
5. What has been the most interesting part of the book for you
so far?
1."Six degrees of separation" is "a very small number of people are linked to everyone else in a few steps, and the rest of us are linked to the world through those special few." p.37
ReplyDelete2."Connectors know lots of people.They are the kind of people who know everyone." p.38
Connectors: "They are people whom all of us can reach in only a few steps, because for one reasom or another, they manage to occupy many different worlds and subcultures and niches." p.48
Why: It is because those connectors are really gregarious and intensely social, every one can reach them in a short way, meanwhile those connectors know lots of people who from different worlds and different fields, so they can bring people together successfully.
3.Most frinendships are those people who through commucinate realized that they have the same character,and they are the same kind of people, then they build the friendship.
4.The sterngth of "weak ties" is "Acquaintances represent a source of social power, the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are." p.53
5.I do know there are some gregarious people exist in our life, however I had never imanged that they play a role like "Connectors" in our life. In fact I always consider gregarious is a kind of their characters. Furthermore, I've awared of that they can put us who had never know each other before together, yet I had never considered that there can bring us so many benefits. That is the most interesting part of the book for me so far.
1- The concept is that people are divided to different degrees. there are six degrees. between every degree and the other is a separation. people dont want to interact with who have a lower power. that doesnt make them a connectors, because a connector has no separations between who ever the person is or what job the person has.
ReplyDelete2- A connector is a person who knows alot of people, the auther had a test that tells if a person is a connector or not. for example Roger, a bussnise man, had the test and in the bigning of the test he had over 90 names, it means that a person like Roger is concedered a connector.
3- The bassis of friendship is that friends must stay together and help each other, tahts the main idea of friendship.
4- Strong ties are the people who have a big posissions in a company. these people dont search for people who need jobs, they dont even interact with people who need jobs. However, weak ties are people who have lower jobs, who work in addmission as an example, and they are the ones who accepte people to work at the company or not, and disgine where to put them. that's why the auther said "weak ties are more important than strong ties"
5- the most interesting part is the connector test. That test is a good way to show how good a person knows people and names.
1."Sex degrees of separation" are people who "introduce us to our social circles"--"these people on whom we rely more heavily than me realize" and "try to link any or actress".
ReplyDelete2."give them proper credit for the role they play in our lives" For example, connectors salesmen, and mavens.
Because they have a bigger social group than us and connect more, so they have a large number of people to invite; as a result, they can bringing people together.
3.Living or work closely and have the similar backgroud
4. 56% talking is to find a job, but people don't get jobs from friends usually.
5.In my opnion, the story about Roger Horchow who can talk for so long time is the most interesting part for me. In addition, I actually like the small stories.
1. "Six degrees of separation" talked about the way that people use to connect each other. When people communicate with each other, they are likely to send a message to a person who is close and similar to them, such as friends and neighborhoods. Moreover, many people are usually connected with the same one person who is called a connector.
ReplyDelete2. Connectors are people who have a large social network. They can make a connection with other people easily with their characteristics.
3. The author mentioned that most people share the same connectors who are the minority in the society. He also thought that most friendships are based on future benefits that each person will get.
4. "Weak ties are more important that strong ties" in finding jobs, because, with weak ties, people can create a larger network with different kinds of careers.
5. I think that "connectors" have been the most interesting point so far, because I am similar to the person in the example in some ways. For example, I am a single child, I like to make friend without thinking about future benefits, and I think I am a connector based on the book's perspective.
1. He did an experiment about how many steps will it take to deliver a letter from Omaha to Sharon with ordinary people (not with post delivery system.) It seems that it will take lots of steps but in fact, the average was 6 steps.
ReplyDelete2. Connectors are the people who have lots of acquaintances. the reason they have good relationship with people is because they have special tratis of socializing and they have curiousity about many different worlds. Also, they have slef-confidence and energy to get along with people.
3. same attitudes, no wide age gap, live nearby.
4. Because to find a job/new information/new ideas, acquaintaces(weak ties) are more important than friends because weak ties have totally different knowledge that you and your friends don't know. They guide you to get into a new world.
5.the most interesting part for me is all of the examples.. Because I can not only comprehend the context of book but also get the knowledge from its background information.
1.the six degree of separation concept helps finding out if you have a lot of relationships.Gladwell wrote a list of random surnames and the person who is making the test needs to see how many does he know in each one
ReplyDelete2.a connecter is a very small number of people are linked to everyone else and simply they collect relationships. they are successful because they think that all the people they meet are important. for example, normal people if they meet someone they don't know they will not talk to them again because they don't consider them as friends.however, connecters do.
3.according to gladwell, the places that you go every day and the invitations that you receive are the basis . for example,when you receive an invitation from a friend and you go for it . you will meet the person's friend and your number of friends will get bigger.
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5.the book is so far interesting but the most interesting part for me is when the writer gave the example about his friendship.
1. That concept is that there are steps that we are away to connect to people. Moreover, the concept in the book is that not everyone is connected to everybody else in a few steps, it is rather a few of us are linked to others by those few steps and we’re linked to the world through them.
ReplyDelete2. A connector is a person who knows everybody and that guy brings the world together. Connectors are so successful at bringing the world together because they love making friends, they are very sociable.
3. The basic of most friendships is that having things in commons, etc. same workplace, same habits, same personalities.
4. It is because weak ties are those that we don’t know so well and they are likely to know more than what we know. Moreover, they are just acquaintances and they are vast. Therefore, they are the source of information, the source that we can connect to the world. On the contrary, strong ties are the ones that we know well, they are close to us, so most of the things they know we also know.
5. The law of the few, the explanation of the connectors.
1: it means that a small group of peaple are attached well to everyone and have the ability to reach them in few steps and the rest of us keep in touch with the world through theses special small group .
ReplyDelete2:connectors are a group of people with a special and natural extraordinary gift and skill of making friends and acquaintances very easily .
they like people honestly and not for favor , they have the ability to keep up with them because they have specific characteristics such as : curiosly , self-confidence , sociability and energy .
"by having their foot in so many different worlds, they have the effect of bring them all together" as the Author said .
3- about friendship , people usually choose friends that occupy the same world and have almost the same information and doing the same activities , same level of living . mostly frome the same town or at the same job.
4: because our strong tie relationship will be from our world , so basically they will have no more power in society than we have . In some issues as finding a job , we need people who occupy different world and have different relationships and have that "social power" that we don't have , they are the weak tie who we don't see them regularly , just rarly in occassions . not friends but acquaintances .
5: the intersting part that this book make me thinking about my own relationships and where i can find my weak tie people and who are they . It makes me think how to improve my relathionships and keep up with people . It makes me think how to choose the right person that connects me to other worlds and gives me different informations . I find the book interesting in a whole , no specific part , it's all connected :)
1."It means that a very small number of people are linked to everyone else in a few steps,and the rest of us are linked to the world through those special few" (pp.37)He gives us the "chain letter" as an example, Milgram found that most of letters reached that person in 5 or 6 steps.
ReplyDelete2.(1)"connector is the people who link us with the world, who introduce us to our social circles.these people have special gift for bringing the world together.they are the people whom all of us can reach in only a few steps."(pp.38)(pp.48)
(2)Because the connectors know a lot of people, they are kinds of people who know everyone."they has an instinctive and natural gift for making social connections."they manage to occupy many different worlds and subcultures and niches"(pp.48)"they have the personality of some combination of curiosity,selfconfidence, sociability and energy"(pp.49)
3.They have the similar interests,age.they live closely.
4.In short ties ,the people don't know a lot about each other,they have the curiousity about other people that they don't know.but in strong ties, the people have already know each other a lot,they aren't curous about other people,they don't have many iterests about that person."the strengh f weak ties","acquaintances represent a source of social power,the more acquaintances you have, the more powerful you are."(pp.54)"we rely on the weak tie" to give us access to opportunity and worlds to which we don't belong"(pp.54)
5.The part about connectors,the author give many exampe for what the connector is, what the importance of the connector,how they are useful for us.
1. It means that a very samll number of people are linked to everyone else in few steps, and the rest of us are linked to the world throught those sepecial few. An example of it was the chain letters.
ReplyDelete2. A connector is a person with special gift for bringing the world together, they know a lot of peoaple and their social cirlce is 4 or 5 times the size of other people's. They are successfull bringing people togheter because they occupy many different worlds, subculutes and niches and have the effect of bringing them togheter because they love social life and they like to present and bring togheter all their worlds. They collect acquaintances and friends as others collect stamps.
3. Friends are the people we do things with, people we resemble and that occupy the same small physical spaces that we occupy, in their case proximity overpowered simililarity.
4. Strongs ties are the direct friends that we have and as I explain in the last answer they occupy the same space as you so they dont know different opeople. Instead acquaintances are "weak ties" that occupy a very different world than you, so they know different peoaple and places and they could connect you to different people and jobs.
5. I think Malcolm Gadwell make a really good job explaining, and all the examples that support the point make you understand the concepts that he is presenting during the whole book, so I really like that. The most interesting part for me is the introduction, because he make me enter to a concept that I never think it could exist and he attract my attention with the two stories he presented and capt my interest in his concepts and the book.
1. Six degrees of separations is the steps that a person connect to the well know persons. In general, the ordinary people take about five to six steps to reach to the influencing persons. For the connectors, people take few steps to connect to them, for example, in case of Mr. Jacob.
ReplyDelete2. A connector is a person who influence on people' s way of though in some ways. They have social connection gifts or social personaality traits, so they know a lots of people and capable in bringing them together. This make them in the top of social pyramid or social circle. The special social skills they have such as enjoy knowing people, take part or have significant role in wide range of activities with varieties of social group resulted they are respected or acceptable by the social. The connectors have a connection impulse; socialable skill, that distinguish them from the ordianary people. they creat word of mouth epidemics which is their work!!
3. Most people don't have a wide range of friends. They close friends are in the same age, race, or physical area, However, people don't seek to find friend;their close friends are in their close area such as in the same building, same class. They hav the similar activities not the similar attitudes.
4. Weak ties are the connection that bring people together as the connection. People don't try to find help from their friends; they get their job through the social connection.
5. The rest of the characteristics of tipping point are the most interesting story for me. I like the way the author arrange the story. Many studies that he bring together to connect the tip point are awesome and I'm so amazed how the researcher create these creative kind of studies.
1.- This concept describes the results of an experiment that was done by a Psychologist to explain how human beings are connected. The results of the experiment showed that the most of us are connected to the world trough a very small number of people who have the qualities to bring the world together with their special personality.
ReplyDelete2.- The Connectors are people who know lots of different kinds of other people and enjoy the interaction with all of them. Usually bring all of these people together and that is the main reason why they are the right people to start a Word of mouth epidemic.
3.- According to the author, the basis for most friendships are the proximity and the similarly, because we used to associate with people who live or work near from we do and also, with people who share our interests and hobbies.
4.- According to the author, weak ties are more important than strong ties, because these kind of people used to know many different people of many differents places, professions, and so. Weak ties people used to bring people together, they can have the opportunity to know the right person in any moment, to find a good opportunity to work or just to start any kind of relationship that can be the key for any kind of success.
5.- Well, the second chapter has been a little bit long about the experiments that have been done, but, I really loved the first part of the book. I find it very interesting because we can learn some tips that can help us to be not only better students or professionals, also it can help us to be better persons as well.
I have a phrase that I want to share. I copied it because it seems to be important to remember sometimes: "The power of positive thinking will overcome so many things"...
1. Explain the concept of “six degrees of separation.”
ReplyDeletethat the usual size to reach information or to pass things is through six persons or five persons.
it is such like the linked between you and the other person is six persons. even if it is go in far way from city to city, and spread throug alot of ppl. but the main chain will contain six persons
2.Describe what a connector is and explain why they are so successful at bringing people together?
The connecter is the person who bring or connect ppl togather and have link with most ppl.
explayn why they are successful at bringing ppl to gether?
because they know alot of ppl enmruse number of ppl.
and also the kinkd of ppl that they know are severl kind. ppl which they know are different than each other with their charachter job and so on. so they know different world different situation. which help them to decided who they have to tell with specific information.
3. According to Gladwell, what is the basis for most friendships?
That ppl tend to person who is usually as their age or near to their age and who is smiller to them has the same hobbis, knowledge, and intresting.
So frineds usuallu similer to each other which make them know only specific kind of ppl and limited their social circul. And because of that they amost have smiller knowledge so they do not see each other such like a aknowledge or talent.
4. Gladwell writes that in finding a job, “weak ties are more important than strong ties.” Explain.
Because strong ties usully has or share the same knowledge and information they will not see a special point in this person who loosk for job so they will belivie that this person dose not desirve this job because he is normal. But the weak tie persom has different information, knowledge, talent then the person who looks for job for that can see this person unique or has a talent so he/she diserve a job.
5. What has been the most interesting part of the book for you so far?
As it started to speak how the epdimc spread from specific person not from othe person why this person not the other ppl. I think realy it is intresting becaus yes it is strange maybe even some people can use a stron world more than the other but their words do not speared through the socity even the one who heard this words admired this word so much, while different person with not weak words but with less stronger words his/her words speard through most of the socity. it is realy nice to know why.
1.- The theory of 6 degrees refers people association because of the same space and similar activities. However, the relation is more complex. Not all degrees are equal, and not everyone is linked with someone else just in 6 degrees. It means that everything is composed by a net of people’s relations that became bigger and bigger.
ReplyDelete2.- Connector are people that cultivate acquaintance. They are a kind of people collectors. The main characteristic they have is simple, they know lots of people (like a popular person does). They have natural and instinctive skills that help their being sociable and attract others. Also, they use regular ways to keep in touch with others (via e-mail, phone, etc), and maintain contact with a person even if they met just for short time. They does incorporate people from different social classes, ages, professions, etc to their own circle and participate with them in a wild social life.
3.- Friendship’s basis are established by proximity and conections. Gladwell explains this relationship as a pyramid where a single person (who is in the top) leads and introduces others (like a social club does) and everybody enjoy and share togheter.
4.- According to this hypothesis, “a friendly casual” (occasional) meeting with someone who doesn’t mean nothing close to people is more effective than trying to obtain a job through their friends. The reason is: friends are always in people context and represent “strong ties” that don’t break easily; in contrast, acquaintances are flexible and open to address more and more people to their circle because it means social power, and the social powers conduces to different benefits such as getting a job, among others.
5.- I really like the way how Gladwell nourish each theory with situations that maybe we never figured out before. The number of the cases and the tipping that each one of them provoked in society is fascinated. For me, is very interesting Gladwell’s semiotic perspective about the effectiveness of a message and its spread in the world. It reinforces my knowledge on communication theories and helps me to have critical thinking.