Summary
Contents
Subject index
Awards:
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011
Social network analysis has been one of the fastest growing and most influential areas of recent times. Why has this happened? What are the key features of social network analysis?
This sparkling Handbook offers an unrivalled resource. Systematically, it introduces readers to the key concepts, substantive topics, central methods, and prime debates. Among the specific areas covered are: Network theory; Interdisciplinary applications; Online networks; Corporate networks; Lobbying networks; Deviant networks; Measuring devices; Key Methodologies; Software applications
The result is a peerless resource for teachers and students. It offers a critical survey of the origins, basic issues and major debates. Instead of consulting a variety of books and journal articles, the Handbook offers a one-stop guide that will be used by readers for decades to come.
Scientific and Scholarly Networks
Scientific and Scholarly Networks
Introduction
In Randall Collins's (1998) authoritative phrase, scientific and scholarly networks are “coalitions in the mind.” Key ties in them are of two sorts. They may be social, involving direct interactions among living persons such as coauthors or other colleagues. Or they may be cultural, involving persons ...
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