Das Phänomen Small-World

Student research project from the year 2011 in the subject area Sociology - Individual, Group, Society, grade: 1,3, Dresden University of Technology (Institute of Sociology), event: Introduction to Social Network Analysis, language: German, abstract: "Das Jeder-kennt-jeden-Gesetz" - This was the title of an article published in August 2008 by spiegel-online and dealt with the phenomenon 'small-world'. An exciting topic in the age of web2.0, one might think. However, if you look for the origin of this term, you end up in the 1960s with the psychologist Stanley Milgram. It was he who postulated at that time that every person knows every other person on average through six corners. This work is to represent now, begun with Milgrams study, these (chapter I), and further over the pertinent hypothetical computations Harr.