Social Networks Can Influence People Through Contagion

question 43

Multiple Choice

Social networks can influence people through contagion. What does that mean?

• A) When connection leads to disease or infection, sociologists call it contagion.
• B) The influence of various social networks is contagious. Networks tend to mimic each other over the long run.
• C) This borrows from a biological model: if people are weak, they are likely to "catch" the influence of their social network.
• D) When people are connected to a social network, what happens in that network is more likely to affect them.
• E) All of these are true.

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