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SUBMITTER: Dellnitz A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7329863 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dellnitz Andreas A Rödder Wilhelm W
Scientific reports 20200701 1
Power is a central phenomenon in societies. So for ages, numerous power perceptions in philosophy and sociology have existed. Measuring power of an actor in its social fabric is a difficult issue, however. After sketching first attempts for this in social network analyses, we develop a new power theory. To this end, we distinguish between vertices in the network and actors acting in vertices. Vertices get structural power potential from their position in the net. In an entropy-driven model such ...[more]