Social network analysis (SNA), in essence, is not a formal theory in social science, but rather
an approach for investigating social structures, which is why SNA is often referred to as …

Social network theory stands apart from other social science theory because it focuses on
the social context and behavior of relationships between actors rather than on the rational …

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 …

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

Social Network Analysis: Methods and Examples by Song Yang, Franziska B. Keller, and Lu
Zheng prepares social science students to conduct their own social network analysis (SNA) …

Social network based applications have experienced exponential growth in recent years.
One of the reasons for this rise is that this application domain offers a particularly fertile …

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 …

The Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining (ESNAM) is the first major
reference work to integrate fundamental concepts and research directions in the areas of …

Network data involving relational structure representing interactions between actors are
commonly represented by graphs where the actors are referred to as vertices or nodes, and …