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Social network analysis is used widely in the social and behavioral sciences, as well as in economics, marketing, and industrial engineering. The social network perspective focuses on relationships among social entities ; examples include communications among members of a group, economic transactions between corporations, and trade or treaties among nations. The focus on relationships is an important addition to standard social and behavioral research, which is primarily concerned with attributes of the social units. Social network analysis : methods and applications reviews and discusses methods for the analysis of social network with a focus on applications of these methods to many substantive examples. The book is organized into six parts. The introductory chapters give an overview[...]

Social network analysis is used widely in the social and behavioral sciences, as well as in economics, marketing, and industrial engineering. The social network perspective focuses on relationships among social entities ; examples include communications among members of a group, economic transactions between corporations, and trade or treaties among nations. The focus on relationships is an important addition to standard social and behavioral research, which is primarily concerned with attributes of the social units. Social network analysis : methods and applications reviews and discusses methods for the analysis of social network with a focus on applications of these methods to many substantive examples. The book is organized into six parts. The introductory chapters give an overview of the social network perspective and describe different kinds of social network data. The second part discusses formal representations for social networks, including notation, graph theory and matrix operations. The third part covers structural and locational properties of social networks, including centrality, prestige, prominence, structural balance, clusterability, cohesive subgroups and affiliation networks. The fourth part examines methods for social network roles and positions and includes discussions of structural equivalence, blockmodels and relational algebras. The properties of dyads and triads are covered in the fifh part of the book and the final part discusses statistical methods for social networks. Social network analysis : methods and applications is a reference book that can be used by those who want a comprehensive review of network methods, or by researchers who are gathered network data and want to find the most appropriate method by which to analyse them. It is also intended for use as a textbook, as it is the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of the methodology and applications of the field.