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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

One promising trend in social science research is towards a relational explanation of social
phenomena. Rather than explaining outcomes through differences in individual attributes, a …

The success of social network research (SNR) has led to expectations that in addition to
academic research, SNR can introduce people to one another, solve organizational …

Das Interesse an der Netzwerkanalyse nimmt rapide zu. Bisher fehlt es jedoch an empirisch
orientierten Einführungen. Das interdisziplinäre Autorenteam führt daher praxisorientiert in …

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 …