The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis

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John Scott, Peter J. Carrington
SAGE, 18 mai 2011 - 640 pages
This sparkling Handbook offers an unrivalled resource for those engaged in the cutting edge field of social network analysis. Systematically, it introduces readers to the key concepts, substantive topics, central methods and prime debates. Among the specific areas covered are:

  • Network theory
  • Interdisciplinary applications
  • Online networks
  • Corporate networks
  • Lobbying networks
  • Deviant networks
  • Measuring devices
  • Key Methodologies
  • Software applications.
The result is a peerless resource for teachers and students which offers a critical survey of the origins, basic issues and major debates. The Handbook provides a one-stop guide that will be used by readers for decades to come.
 

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Table des matières

1 Introduction
1
SECTION I General Issues
9
An Introduction
11
3 The Development of Social Network Analysis with an Emphasis on Recent Events
26
4 Network Theory
40
5 Social Physics and Social Networks
55
6 Social Networks in Economics
67
7 Relational Sociology Culture and Agency
80
21 Social Networks Geography and Neighbourhood Effects
301
22 A MultipleNetwork Analysis of the World System of Nations 19951999
311
SECTION III Concepts and Methods
329
23 A Brief Introduction to Analyzing Social Network Data
331
24 Concepts and Measures for Basic Network Analysis
340
25 Survey Methods for Network Data
370
26 Survey Sampling in Networks
389
27 Qualitative Approaches
404

SECTION II Substantive Topics
99
The World According to Me
101
9 Social Support
116
10 Kinship Class and Community
129
11 Animal Social Networks
148
Cybercommunities
167
13 Corporate Elites and Intercorporate Networks
180
14 Political Dimensions of Corporate Connections
196
15 Policy Networks
210
16 Social Movements and Collective Action
223
17 Crime and Social Network Analysis
236
The Threat of Connectivity
256
19 Scientific and Scholarly Networks
271
20 Cultural Networks
286
28 Analyzing Affiliation Networks
417
29 Positions and Roles
434
30 Relation Algebras and Social Networks
447
31 Statistical Models for Ties and Actors
459
32 Exponential Random Graph Models for Social Networks
484
33 Network Dynamics
501
34 Models and Methods to Identify Peer Effects
514
35 Kinship Network Analysis
533
36 LargeScale Network Analysis
550
37 Network Visualization
558
38 A Readers Guide to SNA Software
578
Index
601
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À propos de l'auteur (2011)

John Scott is an Honorary Professor at the Universities of Essex, Exeter, and Copenhagen. He was formerly a professor of sociology at the Universities of Essex and Leicester, and pro-vice-chancellor for research at the University of Plymouth. He has been president of the British Sociological Association, Chair of the Sociology Section of the British Academy, and in 2013 was awarded the CBE for Services to Social Science. His work covers theoretical sociology, the history of sociology, elites and social stratification, and social network analysis. His most recent books include British Social Theory: Recovering Lost Traditions before 1950 (SAGE, 2018), Envisioning Sociology. Victor Branford, Patrick Geddes, and the Quest for Social Reconstruction (with Ray Bromley, SUNY Press, 2013), Objectivity and Subjectivity in Social Research (with Gayle Letherby and Malcolm Williams, SAGE, 2011).

Informations bibliographiques

TitreThe SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis
RédacteursJohn Scott, Peter J. Carrington
Éditionintégrale
ÉditeurSAGE, 2011
ISBN1446250113, 9781446250112
Longueur640 pages
  
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