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 …

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 …

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 …

Throughout the book, we use empirical examples to illustrate the material. Because social
networks are studied in a variety of traditional academic disciplines, we draw our examples …

In much of economic theory it is assumed that economic agents interact, directly or indirectly,
with all others, or at least that they have the opportunity to do so in order to achieve a …

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

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 …

The role that causality can play in social network analysis is unclear. The author provides a
broad characterization of social network analysis before considering the nature of causality …

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, 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 …