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 …

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 …

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 …

Social network theory stands apart from other social science theory because it focuses on
the social context and behavior of relationships between actors rather than on the rational …

RONALD L. BREIGER 'direct observation does reveal to us that… human beings are
connected by a complex network of social relations. I use the term “social structure” to …

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 …

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme
and is available on www. bloomsburycollections. com. This book introduces the non …

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 …

'An outstanding volume that brings together contributions from the world's leading experts on
social network analysis. Methods, theory and substantive applications are presented in a …

Social network analysts use two kinds of tools from mathematics to represent information
about patterns of ties among social actors: graphs and matrices. In this chapter, we'll provide …