After reading The Tipping Point , amongst others, I am inclined to argue that historical events and the way in which we study them need to be reassessed. Far from the traditional way of looking at past events, interpreting them through a social network perspective opens up a few alternate views: We might reach different insights into the reasons why things happen the way they do. We obtain a different grip on the "reasons", the "event itself" and the "consequences" as we use to study them in our history classes -- and perhaps still do. Revolutions and inventions offer excellent examples of the necessity to understand the power of networks and the potential locked up in being connected. Social Network Analysis is of course the tool with which we study and understand the such networks. A network perspective offers a new way for us to understanding the reason why things happen, why they happen at a particular point in time and why they happen the way they do....
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