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Introduction to Social Network Methods
This on-line textbook introduces many of the basics of formal approaches to the analysis of social networks.
- Author
- Robert Hanneman & Mark Riddle
- Publisher
- University of California, Riverside
- Source
- LibreTexts
- Language
- EN
- Category
- Information Technology
Contents· 116 sections
- 01: Social Network Data
- 1.01: Introduction - What's different about social network data
- 1.02: Nodes
- 1.03: Relations
- 1.04: Scales of Measurement
- 1.05: A note on Statistics and Social Network Data
- 02: Why Formal Methods
- 2.01: Introduction
- 2.02: Efficiency
- 2.03: Using computers
- 2.04: Seeing patterns
- 2.05: Summary
- 03: Using Graphs to Represent Social Relations
- 3.0E: 3.E: Using graphs to represent social relations (Exercises)
- 3.01: Introduction - Representing networks with graphs
- 3.02: Graphs and Sociograms
- 3.03: Kinds of Graphs
- 3.04: Summary
- 04: Working with Netdraw to Visualize Graphs
- 4.01: Introduction - A picture is worth...
- 4.02: Node Attributes
- 4.03: Relation Properties
- 4.04: Location, location, location
- 4.05: Highlighting parts of the network
- 4.06: A few hints on data handling with NetDraw
- 05: Using Matrices to Represent Social Relations
- 5.0E: 5.E: Using matrices to represent social relations (Exercises)
- 5.0S: 5.S: Using Matrices to Represent Social Relations (Summary)
- 5.01: What is a matrix
- 5.02: The adjacency matrix
- 5.03: Matrix permutation blocks and images
- 5.04: Doing mathematical operations on matrices
- 06: Working with Network Data
- 6.0S: 6.S: Working with Network Data (Summary)
- 6.01: Manipulating Network Data Structures
- 6.02: Making UCINET Datasets
- 6.03: Transforming Data Values
- 6.04: File Handling Tools
- 6.05: Selecting Subsets of the Data
- 6.06: Making New Kinds of Graphs from Existing Graphs
- 07: Connection
- 7.0E: 7.E: Connection (Exercises)
- 7.0S: 7.S: Connection (Summary)
- 7.01: Networks and Actors
- 7.02: Connection
- 7.03: Distance
- 08: Embedding
- 8.01: Introduction
- 8.02: Density
- 8.03: Reciprocity
- 8.04: Transitivity
- 8.05: Clustering
- 8.06: Group-External and Group-Internal Ties
- 8.07: Krackhardt's Graph Theoretical Dimensions of Hierarchy
- 8.08: Summary
- 09: Ego Networks
- 9.0S: 9.S: Ego Networks (Summary)
- 9.01: Introduction to Ego Networks
- 9.02: Ego Network Data
- 9.03: Ego Network Density
- 9.04: Structural Holes
- 9.05: Brokerage
- 10: Centrality and Power
- 10.0E: 10.E: Centrality and Power (Exercises)
- 10.0S: 10.S: Summary
- 10.01: Introduction to Centrality and Power
- 10.02: Degree Centrality
- 10.03: Closeness Centrality
- 10.04: Betweenness Centrality
- 11: Cliques and Sub-groups
- 11.0E: 11.E: Cliques and Sub-groups (Exercises)
- 11.0S: 11.S: Cliques and Sub-groups (Summary)
- 11.01: Introduction to Cliques and Sub-groups
- 11.02: Bottom-up Approaches
- 11.03: Top-down Approaches
- 12: Positions and Roles - The Idea of Equivalence
- 12.0E: 12.E: Positions and Roles - The Idea of Equivalence (Exercises)
- 12.0S: 12.S: Positions and Roles - The Idea of Equivalence (Summary)
- 12.01: Introduction to the Idea of Equivalence
- 12.02: Approaches to Network Positions and Social Roles
- 12.03: Defining Equivalence or Similarity
- 13: Measures of Similarity and Structural Equivalence
- 13.0S: 13.S: Measures of Similarity and Structural Equivalence (Summary)
- 13.01: Introduction to Measures of Similarity and Structural Equivalence
- Dissimilarity
- 13.03: Visualizing Similarity and Distance
- 13.04: Describing Structural Equivalence Sets
- 14: Automorphic Equivalence
- 14.0S: 14.S: Automorphic Equivalence (Summary)
- 14.01: Defining automorphic equivalence
- 14.02: Uses of the Concept
- 14.03: Finding Equivalence Sets
- 15: Regular Equivalence
- 15.0S: 15.S: Regular Equivalence (Summary)
- 15.01: Defining Regular Equivalence
- 15.02: Uses of the Concept
- 15.03: Finding Equivalence Sets
- 16: Multiplex Networks
- 16.0S: 16.S: Multiplex Networks (Summary)
- 16.01: Introduction to Multiplex Networks
- 16.02: Multiplex Data Basics
- 16.03: Role Algebra for Mulitplex Data
- 17: Two-Mode Networks
- 17.0S: 17.S: Two-Mode Networks (Summary)
- 17.01: Introduction to Two-Mode Networks
- 17.02: Bipartite Data Structures
- 17.03: Visualizing Two-Mode Data
- 17.04: Quantitative Analysis
- 17.05: Qualitative Analysis
- 18: Some Statistical Tools
- 18.0S: 18.S: Some Statistical Tools (Summary)
- 18.01: Introduction to Statistical Tools
- 18.02: Describing One Network
- 18.03: Comparing Two Relations for the Same Set of Actors
- 18.04: Explaining Attributes of Networked Actors
- 18.05: Explaining the Relations Among Actors in a Network