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Small World Phenomenon

In: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World
Edited by: Karen Christensen & David Levinson
Subject:Community Psychology, Sociology of Communities
Keywords:small world phenomenon

In 1967, the social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a seminal experiment to test the hypothesis that scattered members of any large social network (in his case, the population of the United States) could be connected to each other through short chains ...

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  Christensen, K., & Levinson, D. (2003). Small world phenomenon. In Encyclopedia of community: From the village to the virtual world (Vol. 1, pp. 1256-1256). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n445
  
  Christensen, Karen, and David Levinson. "Small World Phenomenon." In Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, edited by Christensen, Karen, and David Levinson, 1256-1256. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2003. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n445.
  
  Christensen, K. and Levinson, D. 2003. Small World Phenomenon. In: Karen Christensen and David Levinson Editors, 2003. Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 1256 Available at: <https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n445> [Accessed 16 Aug 2022].
  
  Christensen, Karen and David Levinson. "Small World Phenomenon." Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World. Edited by Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2003, pp. 1256-1256. SAGE Knowledge. 16 Aug 2022, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n445.
  
  Christensen, Karen, and David Levinson (2003). Small world phenomenon In:Small world phenomenon Encyclopedia of community: From the village to the virtual world Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.; 2003:1256-1256. doi:10.4135/9781412952583.n445
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