Is social network analysis just measures and methods with no theory? We attempt to clarify
some confusions, address some previous critiques and controversies surrounding the …

The social network perspective emphasizes multiple levels of analysis: differences among
actors are traced to the constraints and opportunities that arise from how they are embedded …

The authors should be congratulated for not only offering an excellent tour de force of cutting-
edge work in social network analysis, but also charting some new possible territories for …

Social network analysis takes as its starting point the premise that social life is created
primarily and most importantly by relations and the patterns formed by these relations. Social …

Despite the spread and adoption of social network concepts outside of the academy and the
rising use of social network analysis across a number of disciplines, there is no general …

Since the publication of Herbert Spencer's Principles of Sociology in 1875, the use of social
structure as a defining concept has produced a large body of creative speculations, insights …

In a recent book I reviewed the development of social network analysis from its earliest
beginnings until the late 1990s (Freeman, 2004). There, I characterized social network …

Network analysis has been used extensively in sociology over the last twenty years. This
special issue of Sociological Methods & Research reviews the substantive contributions that …

Social network analysis, a method for analyzing relationships between social entities, has
expanded over the last decade as new research has been done in this area. How can these …

This book is principally intended for social scientists wanting to undertake social network
research. It assumes the reader already knows a thing or two (perhaps even a lot) about …