Exercise: Network Analysis

Examine one of your social networks (face to Face or online).

1. Create a chart that illustrates the diversity of your network. Include at least ten dimensions of diversity, such as social class, race, age, personality type, job function, and so on.

2. In what ways is you network diverse? In what ways does it lack diversity? Explain.

3. Are the ties in this network of yours primarily strong or weak? Explain.

4. What interpersonal resources, or social capital, do you derive from this network?

5. How might you enhance the diversity of your network?