Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-521-80959-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 843 g

Reihe: Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences

Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis presents the most important developments in quantitative models and methods for analyzing social network data that have appeared during the 1990s. Intended as a complement to Wasserman and Faust's Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications, it is a collection of original articles by leading methodologists reviewing recent advances in their particular areas of network methods. Reviewed are advances in network measurement, network sampling, the analysis of centrality, positional analysis or blockmodelling, the analysis of diffusion through networks, the analysis of affiliation or 'two-mode' networks, the theory of random graphs, dependence graphs, exponential families of random graphs, the analysis of longitudinal network data, graphical techniques for exploring network data, and software for the analysis of social networks.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carrington, Peter

Scott, John

Wasserman, Stanley

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Geschichte der Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Recent developments in network measurement; 3. Network sampling and model fitting; 4. Extending centrality; 5. Positional analyses of sociometric data; 6. Network models and methods for studying the diffusion of innovations; 7. Using correspondence analysis for joint displays of affiliation networks; 8. An introduction to random graphs, dependence graphs, and p*; 9. Random graph models for social networks: multiple relations or multiple raters; 10. Interdependencies and social processes: dependence graphs and generalized dependence structures; 11. Models for longitudinal network data; 12. Graphical techniques for exploring social network data; 13. Software for social network analysis.

Über Autor(innen)

Carrington, Peter
Peter Carrington is Professor of Sociology at the University of Waterloo. His main teaching and research interests are in the criminal and juvenile justice systems, social networks, and research methods and statistics. He has published articles in the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, American Journal of Psychiatry, Journal of Mathematical Sociology, and Social Networks. He has most recently been involved in several evaluation studies for the Department of Justice Canada. He is currently doing research on police discretion, criminal and delinquent careers and networks, and the impact of the Youth Criminal Justice Act on the youth justice system in Canada.

Wasserman, Stanley
Stanley Wasserman is Professor of psychology, statistics, and sociology at the University of Illinois-Champaign. He has done research on methodology for social networks for almost thirty years. He has edited books on the subject, including Advances in Social Network Analysis: Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (1994), and Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (1994). His work is recognized by statisticians as well as social and behavioral scientists worldwide. He is currently Book Review Editor of Chance, and an Associate Editor of Journal of the American Statistical Association and Psychometrika. He has also been a very active consultant, and is currently Chief Scientist of Visible Path, an organizational network software firm.

Scott, John
John Scott is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. An active member of the British Sociological Association, he served as its President from 2001 until 2003. He has written more than fifteen books, including Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes (1997), Social Network Analysis (1991 and 2000), Sociological Theory (1995), and Power (2001). With James Fulcher he is the author of the leading introductory textbook Sociology (1999 and 2003). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Sociology and is an Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences.