Designing Empirical Social Networks Research

"User-friendly guide to help design research about how and why social networks matter. Focused on political scientists with applications across the social sciences, this book will get researchers building a theory, designing a strategy to collect data, preparing the data for analyses, conducting preliminary analyses, and planning the next steps"--

List of contents

1. Introduction to social networks research; 2. Describing and interpreting social network features; 3. Accounting for substantive network features; 4. Crafting a network theory; 5. Moving from theory to Empirics; 6. Acquiring network data; 7. Preparing network data; 8. Working with network data in R; 9. Conclusion: where to turn next; Selected answers; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Jennifer M. Larson is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Vanderbilt University.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer M Larson, Jennifer M. Larson, Jennifer M. (Vanderbilt University Larson, Larson Jennifer M.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2024
• EAN: 9781009484183
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0948418-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Methods for Social Inquiry
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, REFERENCE / Research, Political science & theory, Social research & statistics, Political science and theory, Social research and statistics, Data analysis: general, Data science and analysis: general, Research methods: general, Data science and analysis