Today, some people engage in open relationships, or polyamory, wherein all partners share details about their sexual health. In some relationships, the size of the group may be as large as a dozen people who share links to one or more of the others in the group. To protect all those involved, everyone agrees to disclose information upon testing positive for a sexually transmitted disease (STD). If someone fails to do this, or simply does not know he or she has an infection, what could the group employ to try to determine what happened?
a.) network analysis
b.) organizational structure analysis
c.) historical analysis
d.) a careful look at embedded ties
Ans: a.) network analysis
FEEDBACK: Network analysis can be used to explore how social structures govern individual-level behavior. This approach can reveal patterns in social structures that might not ever become evident through answers to direct questions.
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