Authors:Stanley Wasserman, Katherine Faust,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: social, analysis, sciences, structural, methods, network, applications
Number of Pages: 857
Published: 1994-11-25
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 0521387078
ISBN-13: 9780521387071

Social network analysis, which focuses on relationships among social entities, is used widely in the social and behavioral sciences, as well as in economics, marketing, and industrial engineering. Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications reviews and discusses methods for the analysis of social networks with a focus on applications of these methods to many substantive examples. As the first book to provide a comprehensive coverage of the methodology and applications of the field, this study is both a reference book and a textbook.Book DescriptionFocusing on relationships among social e

Authors:Peter J. Carrington, John Scott, Stanley Wasserma,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: social, analysis, structural, sciences, network, methods, models
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2005-02-07
List price: $35.99
ISBN-10: 0521600979
ISBN-13: 9780521600972

This volume is an important complement to Wasserman and Faust’s Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (Cambridge, 1995). The authors, leading methodologists, present the most significant developments in quantitative models and methods for analyzing social network data that appeared in the 1990s. They review recent advances in network measurement, network sampling, analysis of centrality, positional analysis or blockmodelling, analysis of diffusion through networks, analysis of affiliation or "two-mode" networks, the theory of random graphs, and dependence graphs.Book Descript

Authors:Wouter de Nooy, Andrej Mrvar, Vladimir Batagelj,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: social, analysis, sciences, structural, pajek, exploratory, network
Number of Pages: 362
Published: 2005-01-10
List price: $44.99
ISBN-10: 0521602629
ISBN-13: 9780521602624

This is the first textbook on social network analysis integrating theory, applications, and professional software for performing network analysis (Pajek). Pajek software and datasets for all examples are freely available, so the reader can learn network analysis by doing it. In addition, each chapter offers case studies for practicing network analysis. The book will enable the reader to gain the knowledge, skills, and tools to apply social network analysis in all social sciences, ranging from anthropology and sociology to business administration and history.Book DescriptionThis is the first te

Authors:Peter J. Carrington, John Scott, Stanley Wasserman,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: social, analysis, structural, sciences, network, methods, models
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2005-02-07
List price: $93.00
ISBN-10: 0521809592
ISBN-13: 9780521809597

This volume is an important complement to Wasserman and Faust’s Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (Cambridge, 1995). The authors, leading methodologists, present the most significant developments in quantitative models and methods for analyzing social network data that appeared in the 1990s. They review recent advances in network measurement, network sampling, analysis of centrality, positional analysis or blockmodelling, analysis of diffusion through networks, analysis of affiliation or "two-mode" networks, the theory of random graphs, and dependence graphs.

Authors:David Knoke, Dr. Song Yang,
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: social, sciences, applications, analysis, network, quantitative
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2007-11-14
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1412927498
ISBN-13: 9781412927499

In the thoroughly updated edition of Social Network Analysis, authors David Knoke and Song Yang take into account the vast number of changes in the field that have occurred in the 25 years since the first edition was published. They cover various issues in basic network concepts, data collection, and network analytical methodology. They succinctly illustrate the concepts and methods related to substantive social network research problems, citing examples ranging from children’s play groups to organizations, communities, and international systems. Readers can also analyze the real and artific

Authors:Barry Wellman, S. D. Berkowitz,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: social, analysis, sciences, structural, approach, structures, network
Number of Pages: 526
Published: 1988-01-29
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0521286875
ISBN-13: 9780521286879

Structural analysis is characterized by a focus on social structure. Structural analysts reject approaches to social analysis that treat individuals as independent units, and are sceptical of claims that social behaviour is determined by norms injected into the psyches of people and organizations.

Authors:Nikolaus Schmidt, John Heinrigs,
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Keywords: analysis, network, tool, social, development, scientific, disciplines, using
Number of Pages: 52
Published: 2008-08-28
List price: $19.50
ISBN-10: 3640147529
ISBN-13: 9783640147526