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 …

Social Networks: An Introduction is the first textbook that combines new with still-valuable
older methods and theories. Designed to be a core text for graduate (and some …

Social networks analysis is generally acknowledged to be one of the fastest growing and
most productive specialties on the current social science scene. As an explicit specialty it is …

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 …

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 …

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 is one of the few if perhaps the only theory in social science that is not
reductionist. The theory applies to a variety of levels of analysis from small groups to entire …

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 …