1. Each individual has a social network, or a web of people, groups, and organizations that influence him or her. Create your own social network web using the example below as a model. Make sure to identify at least 10 people, groups, or organizations that influence you. Focus on the people, groups, and organizations that you interact with face-to-face. Sample Social Network Web 2. How is online social networking different from face-to-face social networking? 3. Sociologists use the term e-communities to talk about the social networking you do online. Most sociologists believe that e-communities have weak social ties. What do you think sociologists mean by this? 4. Create a new social network web that focuses only on your online social community. Once again, list at least 10 people, groups, or organizations that impact your life online. 5. Now compare your two social network webs. a. What similarities can you find between your two webs? b. What differences do you notice? c. Identify at least one way that you interact with people in person that you do not do online. d. Identify at least one way that you interact with people online that you do not do in person. 6. Now select one of the three theoretical frameworks of sociology and write a statement about how that framework would view the role of e-communities in 21st-century society. Hint: The three theoretical frameworks are the structural-functional approach, the social-conflict approach, and the symbolic-interaction approach. If you need help remembering how each of these frameworks approach groups, revisit the link on the first page of this activity.