Suppose that a team of anthropologists is studying a set of three small villages

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Suppose that a team of anthropologists is studying a set of three small villages that neighbor one another. Each village has 30 people, consisting of 2-3 extended families. Everyone in each village knows all the people in their own village, as well as the people in the other villages. When the anthropologists build the social network on the people in all three villages taken together, they find that each person is friends with all the other people in their own village, and enemies with everyone in the two other villages. This gives them a network on 90 people (i.e., 30 in each village), with positive and negative signs on its edges. Is this network on 90 people balanced? Give a brief explanation for your answer.

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A network is a place where in friendly and unfriendly relations can be modified.

When a network has positive and negative edges it is called structural balancing.

The above example has 30 friends yet 60 enemies which seems to be an unbalanced network but as per structural balancing this would change and might turn out to be the opportunity for being the reverse of what it is at present.

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