Sunday, June 05, 2005
Introduction to Social Network Methods
Introduction to Social Network Methods: Table of Contents
From the Preface:
"Our goal in preparing this book is to provide a very basic introduction to the core ideas of social network analysis, and how these ideas are implemented in the methodologies that many social network analysts use. The book is distributed free on the Internet in the hope that it may reach a diverse audience, and that the core ideas and methods of this field may be of interest. The book may also be suitable as course-support for undergraduate or introductory graduate training in social network analysis. While this text is not a user's guide to UCINET (which has excellent documentation in it's help files), it may be of assistance to users working with that particular software package."
From 1. Social network data / Populations, samples, and boundaries
"The populations that network analysts study are remarkably diverse. At one extreme, they might consist of symbols in texts or sounds in verbalizations; at the other extreme, nations in the world system of states might constitute the population of nodes. Perhaps most common, of course, are populations of individual persons. In each case, however, the elements of the population to be studied are defined by falling within some boundary."
From 4. Working with NetDraw to visualize graphs / Introduction: A picture is worth...
"There are a number of software tools that are available for drawing graphs, and each has certain strengths and limitations. In this chapter, we will look at some commonly used techniques for visualizing graphs using NetDraw (version 4.14, which is distributed along with UCINET). There are many other packages though, and you might want to explore some of the tools available in Pajek, and Mage (look for software at the web-site of the International Network of Social Network Analysts - INSNA)."
From the Preface:
"Our goal in preparing this book is to provide a very basic introduction to the core ideas of social network analysis, and how these ideas are implemented in the methodologies that many social network analysts use. The book is distributed free on the Internet in the hope that it may reach a diverse audience, and that the core ideas and methods of this field may be of interest. The book may also be suitable as course-support for undergraduate or introductory graduate training in social network analysis. While this text is not a user's guide to UCINET (which has excellent documentation in it's help files), it may be of assistance to users working with that particular software package."
From 1. Social network data / Populations, samples, and boundaries
"The populations that network analysts study are remarkably diverse. At one extreme, they might consist of symbols in texts or sounds in verbalizations; at the other extreme, nations in the world system of states might constitute the population of nodes. Perhaps most common, of course, are populations of individual persons. In each case, however, the elements of the population to be studied are defined by falling within some boundary."
From 4. Working with NetDraw to visualize graphs / Introduction: A picture is worth...
"There are a number of software tools that are available for drawing graphs, and each has certain strengths and limitations. In this chapter, we will look at some commonly used techniques for visualizing graphs using NetDraw (version 4.14, which is distributed along with UCINET). There are many other packages though, and you might want to explore some of the tools available in Pajek, and Mage (look for software at the web-site of the International Network of Social Network Analysts - INSNA)."
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