Perspectives on Social Network Research

Perspectives on Social Network Research covers the proceedings of the Mathematical Social Science Board's Advanced Research Symposium on Social Networks held at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, on September 18-21, 1975. This symposium was organized to survey research on social networks as well as review and criticize major research thrusts involving network studies of social behavior.

The book covers topics such as the Davis/Holland/Leinhardt studies, structural sociometry, network analysis of the diffusion of innovations, and the deterministic models of social networks. Also covered are topics such as structural control models for group processes, social clusters and opinion clusters, equilibrating processes in social networks, and estimation of population totals by use of snowball samples.

The text is recommended for sociologists, anthropologists, and psychologists, especially those who would like to know more about social network and are currently engaged in research in that particular field.

Contenu

Contributors and Symposium Participants
Preface
1 The Advanced Research Symposium on Social Networks
2 On Balance and Attribution
3 Balance and Clusterability: An Overview
4 The Davis/Holland/Leinhardt Studies: An Overview
5 Structural Sociometry
6 A Primer on Blockmodeling Procedure
7 Some Problems Relating to Randomly Constructed Biased Networks
8 Network Analysis of the Diffusion of Innovations
9 Deterministic Models of Social Networks
10 Independent Generalizations of Balance
11 Structural Control Models for Group Processes
12 Toward a General Framework for Dynamic Theories of Sentiment in Small Groups Derived from Theories of Attitude Change
13 Social Clusters and Opinion Clusters
14 Equilibrating Processes in Social Networks: A Model for Conceptualization and Analysis
15 Graph Sampling Compared to Conventional Sampling
16 Estimation of Population Totals by Use of Snowball Samples
17 A Study of Interlocking Directorates: Vital Concepts of Organization
18 Network Analysis in Large Social Systems: Some Theoretical and Methodological Problems
19 Network Analysis: Orienting Notion, Rigorous Technique, or Substantive Field of Study?
20 Networks, Algorithms, and Analysis
21 Cognitive Balance Theory and Social Network Analysis: Remarks on Some Fundamental Theoretical Matters
22 Acquisition and Management of Social Network Data
23 Perspectives on Social Networks
24 The Theory-Gap in Social Network Analysis
25 Social Networks and Scientific Ideas: The Case of the Idea of Networks
Index