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 …

Christina Prell is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Maryland, College
Park. She uses mixed methods to explore the role that social networks play in different …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …