Summary
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Since its appearance in the 1930s in the form of sociometry, social network analysis (SNA) has become a major paradigm for social research in such areas as communication, organizations, and social mobility, to name but a few. It is used by researchers in a wide range of disciplines: like any mathematical approach to social research, social network analysis strips away the unique details of social situations to reveal, or model, the bare structural essentials. By doing so, it enables the researcher to identify similarities across widely disparate contexts, and so to benefit from the insights of many different fields of study. This major work is dedicated specifically to the applications of social network analysis in diverse fields of scholarship. Divided into four volumes, each of ...
Editor's Introduction: Applications of Social Network Analysis
Since its appearance in the 1930s in the form of sociometry, social network analysis has become a major paradigm for social research in such areas as communication, organizations, markets, community, the family and marriage, small group dynamics, social support, social mobility, and animal behavior, to name but a few. It is used by researchers in the disciplines of sociology, social anthropology, social psychology, political science, history, communication science, economics, epidemiology, criminology, ethnology, ethology, physics, information science, etc.
At the heart of social network analysis are three insights or assumptions: that social relations are more important than individual attributes in understanding human society; that the structure of social relations is more important than their content; and that social relations can ...
Table of Contents
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Volume I: Individuals
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Personal Communities
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1. The Network is Personal: Introduction to a Special Issue of Social Networks
Barry Wellman
2007
Social Networks
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2. The Community Question: The Intimate Networks of East Yorkers
Barry Wellman
1979
American Journal of Sociology
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4. Core Discussion Networks of Americans
Peter Marsden
1987
American Sociological Review
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5. Social Isolation in America: Changes in Core Discussion Networks over Two Decades
Miller McPherson | Lynn Smith-Lovin | Matthew Brashears
2006
American Sociological Review
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6. Comparing Two Methods for Estimating Network Size
Christopher McCarty | Peter Killworth | H. Russell Bernard | Eugene Johnsen | Gene Shelley
2001
Human Organization
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7. Does Distance Matter in the Age of the Internet?
Diana Mok | Barry Wellman | Juan Carrasco
2010
Urban Studies
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Social Capital
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Pierre Bourdieu
1986
Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education
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9. Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital
James Coleman
1988
American Journal of Sociology
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10. Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology
Alejandro Portes
1998
Annual Review of Sociology
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11. Building a Network Theory of Social Capital
Nan Lin
2001
Social Capital: Theory and Research
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12. Estimating the Causal Effect of Social Capital: A Review of Recent Research
Ted Mouw
2006
Annual Review of Sociology
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The Small World
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Stanley Milgram
1967
Psychology Today
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17. An Experimental Study of the Small World Problem
Jeffrey Travers | Stanley Milgram
1969
Sociometry
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Judith Kleinfeld
2002
Society
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Volume II: Individuals
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Interpersonal Influence
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19. Sources of Peer Group Homogeneity
Jere Cohen
1977
Sociology of Education
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20. Norm Formation in Social Influence Networks
Noah Friedkin
2001
Social Networks
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21. The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 Years
Nicholas Christakis | James Fowler
2007
The New England Journal of Medicine
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22. Dynamic Networks and Behavior: Separating Selection from Influence
Christian Steglich | Tom Snijders | Michael Pearson
2010
Sociological Methodology
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Kinship
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23. The Study of Kinship Systems
A. Radcliffe-Brown
1941
The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
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24. ‘Introduction’ in an Anatomy of Kinship: Mathematical Models for Structures of Cumulated Roles
Harrison White
1963
An Anatomy of Kinship: Mathematical Models for Structures of Cumulated Roles
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25. Roles, Kin Trees, and Homogeneous Structures
Harrison White
1963
An Anatomy of Kinship: Mathematical Models for Structures of Cumulated Roles
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26. Class, Property, and Structural Endogamy: Visualizing Networked Histories
Lilyan Brudner | Douglas White
1997
Theory and Society
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Online Networks
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27. Computer Networks as Social Networks
Barry Wellman
2001
Science
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Caroline Haythornthwaite | Lori Kendall
2010
American Behavioral Scientist
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29. Social Connectivity in America: Changes in Adult Friendship Network Size from 2002 to 2007
Hua Wang | Barry Wellman
2010
American Behavioral Scientist
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30. Social Structure of Facebook Networks
Amanda Traud | Peter Mucha | Mason Porter
2012
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
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Animal Networks
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31. The Social Order in Flocks of the Common Chicken and the Pigeon
Ralph Masure | W.C. Allee
1934
The Auk
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Ivan Chase | Marc Weissburg | Theodore Dewitt
1988
Animal Behaviour
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33. Social Network Theory: New Insights and Issues for Behavioral Ecologists
Andrew Sih | Sean Hanser | Katherine McHugh
2009
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
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34. Comparing Networks across Space and Time, Size and Species
Katherine Faust | John Skvoretz
2002
Sociological Methodology
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Volume III: Organizations
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Intra-Organizational Networks
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35. Management Conflict and Sociometric Structure
Harrison White
1961
American Journal of Sociology
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36. Work, Friendship, and Media Use for Information Exchange in a Networked Organization
Caroline Haythornthwaite | Barry Wellman
1998
Journal of the American Society for Information Science)
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37. Social Networks and Organizational Dynamics
J. McPherson | Pamela Popielarz | Sonja Drobnic
1992
American Sociological Review
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Inter-Organizational Networks
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Joel Levine
1972
American Sociological Review
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39. Exchange and Power in Networks of Interorganizational Relations
Karen Cook
1977
The Sociological Quarterly
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40. The Structure of Interorganizational Elite Cooptation: Interlocking Corporate Directorates
Michael Allen
1974
American Sociological Review
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41. Networks of Interorganizational Relations
Mark Mizruchi | Joseph Galaskiewicz
1993
Sociological Methods & Research
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Organizational Elites
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42. New Directions in the Study of Community Elites
Edward Laumann | Franz Pappi
1973
American Sociological Review
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43. The Inner Group of the American Capitalist Class
Michael Useem
1978
Social Problems
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44. Networks of Corporate Power: A Comparative Assessment
John Scott
1991
Annual Review of Sociology
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William Carroll | Jean Sapinski
2010
International Sociology
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World Systems
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David Snyder | Edward Kick
1979
American Journal of Sociology
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47. The Persistence of Structural Inequality? A Network Analysis of International Trade, 1965–2000
Matthew Mahutga
2006
Social Forces
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48. A Multiple-Network Analysis of the World System of Nations, 1995–1999
Edward Kick | Laura McKinney | Steve McDonald | Andrew Jorgenson
2011
The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis
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Volume IV: Institutions
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Science
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49. Career Attributes and Network Structure: A Blockmodel Study of a Biomedical Research Specialty
Ronald Breiger
1976
American Sociological Review
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50. The Structure of a Social Science Collaboration Network: Disciplinary Cohesion from 1963 to 1999
James Moody
2004
American Sociological Review
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51. Studying the Emerging Global Brain: Analyzing and Visualizing the Impact of Co-Authorship Teams
Katy Börner | Luca Dall'asta | Weimao Ke | Alessandro Vespignani
2005
Complexity
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Culture
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52. A Social Network's Changing Statistical Properties and the Quality of Human Innovation
Brian Uzzi
2008
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
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53. Hidden Meanings: Cultural Content and Context in Harrison White's Structural Sociology
Steven Brint
1992
Sociological Theory
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54. Social Grammar for Culture: Reply to Steven Brint
Harrison White
1992
Sociological Theory
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55. Between Conversation and Situation: Public Switching Dynamics across Network Domains
Ann Mische | Harrison White
1998
Social Research: An International Quarterly
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56. Network Analysis, Culture, and the Problem of Agency
Mustafa Emirbayer | Jeff Goodwin
1994
American Journal of Sociology
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Crime
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57. Delinquent Networks in Sweden
Jerzy Sarnecki
1990
Journal of Quantitative Criminology
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58. Friendship Networks and Delinquency: The Relative Nature of Peer Delinquency
Dana Haynie
2002
Journal of Quantitative Criminology
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Mangai Natarajan
2006
Journal of Quantitative Criminology
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60. Brokerage Qualifications in Ringing Operations
Carlo Morselli | Julie Roy
2008
Criminology
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Terrorism
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61. Analyzing Terrorist Networks: A Case Study of the Global Salafi Jihad Network
Jialun Qin | Jennifer Xu | Daning Hu | Marc Sageman | Hsinchun Chen
2005
Intelligence and Security Informatics
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62. Destabilization of Covert Networks
Kathleen Carley
2006
Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory
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63. Modeling and Simulating Terrorist Networks in Social and Geospatial Dimensions
Il-Chul Moon | Kathleen Carley
2007
IEEE Intelligent Systems
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64. A Social Network Analysis of Jemaah Islamiyah: The Applications to Counterterrorism and Intelligence
Stuart Koschade
2006
Studies in Conflict & Terrorism
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