Social Network Analysis (eBook)

Methods and Examples

Song Yang, Franziska B B Keller, Lu Zheng (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
248 Seiten
Sage Publications (Verlag)
978-1-5063-6210-6 (ISBN)

Inhalt

Preface
About the Authors
Chapter 1: Basics of Social Network Analysis
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Social Network and How to Represent It
1.3 Types of Networks
1.4 Network Parts and Levels of Analysis
1.5 Networks as Social Structure and Institution
1.6 Theoretical Assumptions
1.7 Causality in Social Network Studies
1.8 A Brief History of Social Network Analysis
Chapter 2: Data Collection
2.1 Boundary Specification
2.2 Data Collection Process
2.3 Informant Bias and Issue of Reliability
2.4 Archival Data
Chapter 3: Descriptive Methods in Social Network Analysis
3.1 Graph and Matrix–Social Network Representation
3.2 Density
3.3 Centrality, Centralization, and Prestige
3.4 Cliques
3.5 Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) and Dendogram
3.6 Structural Equivalence
3.7 Two-Mode Networks and Bipartite Matrix
Chapter 4: Inferential Methods in Social Network Analysis
4.1 Permutation and QAP (Quadratic Assignment Procedure) Correlation
4.2 P* or Exponential Random Graph Model (ERGM)
Chapter 5: Social Network Analysis of Work and Organizations
5.1 Personal Connections and Labor Market Processes
5.2 Intra-Organizational Networks
5.3 Inter-Organizational Relations
Chapter 6: Social Network Analysis in Crime and Terrorism
6.1 Personal Networks, Delinquency, and Crime
6.2 Neighborhood Networks
6.3 Criminal Networks
6.4 Analyzing Social Networks of Terror
Chapter 7: Social Network Analysis in Emotional and Physical Health
7.1 Social Network Analysis and Emotional Health
7.2 Social Network Analysis in Physical Fitness
7.3 Social Network Analysis and Illicit Drug Use
7.4 Social Network Analysis and Sexually Transmitted Disease
Chapter 8: Political Networks
8.1 American Politics
8.2 Networks in International Relations
Glossary
References
Index

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Thousand Oaks
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Datenbanken ► Data Warehouse / Data Mining
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Schlagworte: Research Methods in Criminal Justice • SNA • social network analysis • social research methods
• ISBN-10: 1-5063-6210-9 / 1506362109
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5063-6210-6 / 9781506362106