Social Network Analysis

Klappentext Covers methods for the analysis of social networks and applies them to examples. This book reviews and discusses methods for the analysis of social networks with a focus on applications of these methods to many substantive examples. As the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of the methodology and applications of the field, it is both a reference book and a textbook. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Introduction: Networks, Relations, and Structure: 1. Relations and networks in the social and behavioral sciences; 2. Social network data: collection and application; Part II. Mathematical Representations of Social Networks: 3. Notation; 4. Graphs and matrixes; Part III. Structural and Locational Properties: 5. Centrality, prestige, and related actor and group measures; 6. Structural balance, clusterability, and transitivity; 7. Cohesive subgroups; 8. Affiliations, co-memberships, and overlapping subgroups; Part IV. Roles and Positions: 9. Structural equivalence; 10. Blockmodels; 11. Relational algebras; 12. Network positions and roles; Part V. Dyadic and Triadic Methods: 13. Dyads; 14. Triads; Part VI. Statistical Dyadic Interaction Models: 15. Statistical analysis of single relational networks; 16. Stochastic blockmodels and goodness-of-fit indices; Part VII. Epilogue: 17. Future directions.

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Faust, Katherine (University of South Carolina) Faust, Faust Katherine, Wasserman Stanley, Stanley Wasserman, Stanley (University of Illinois Wasserman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.03.1995
• EAN: 9780521387071
• ISBN: 978-0-521-38707-1
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 228 mm x 40 mm
• Series: Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences; Structural Analysis in the Soc; Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences; Structural Analysis in the Soc
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology