Social scientists increasingly recognize the potential of social network analysis, which
enriches the explanation of human behavior by explicitly taking its social structure into …

Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of interest in network research across
the physical and social sciences. For social scientists, the theory of networks has been a …

Social network analysis (SNA) is a methodological and conceptual tool box for the
measurement, systematic description, and analysis of relational structures (Schneider 2008) …

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 is a large and growing body of research on the measurement and
analysis of relational structure. Here, we review the fundamental concepts of network …

Social psychology and social network research are both centrally concerned with human
sociality. Despite some historically significant interactions between the two, these areas of …

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 …

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 …

We review progress in research in group processes and intergroup relations. After Steiner's
initial optimism in the 1960s, groups lost favor in social psychology during the 1970s and …

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