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.
Qualitative Approaches
Qualitative Approaches
Introduction
From the outset, network research has made use of qualitative data, less structured approaches to data collection, and interpretive methods in describing and analyzing social networks. In the 1950s and 1960s, British social anthropologists conducted ethnographic community studies on class ...
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