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 …

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 analysis has emerged as an integrated scientific specialty concerned with
the structural analysis of social interaction. Historical evidence suggests that members of this …

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 …

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 …

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 …

While intellectual forerunners of social network analysis can be found as far back as the
ancient Greeks, modern social network analysis is typically seen as beginning in the 1930s …

The paper systematizes the role of qualitative methods, statistical analyses, and formal
network analysis in sociological network research, and argues for their systematic …

Social network research constitutes one of the most rapidly expanding academic areas and
is emerging as an increasingly popular paradigm for social psychological inquiry. A 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 …