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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This collection brings together the principal sources in the development of the techniques of
social network analysis, from early metaphorical statements in Simmel and Radcliffe-Brown …

From the outset, network research has made use of qualitative data, less structured
approaches to data collection, and interpretive methods in describing and analyzing social …