Streamline Training & Documentation: Online Social Network Textbook

Thursday, April 05, 2007

Online Social Network Textbook

For an introduction to the methods used in social network analysis, you can look at Introduction to Social Network Methods, by Robert A. Hanneman (Department of Sociology, University of California-Riverside) and Mark Riddle (Department of Sociology, University of Northern Colorado), a 2005 textbook that has been posted online so that people can use it for free. (The authors do require that you give them credit if you incorporate content from the book in your own work.)

The table of contents:

Preface

Social network data

Why formal methods?

Using graphs to represent social relations

Working with Netdraw to visualize graphs

Using matrices to represent social relations

Working with network data

Connection

Embedding

Ego networks

Centrality and power

Cliques and sub-groups

Positions and roles: The idea of equivalence

Measures of similarity and structural equivalence

Automorphic equivalence

Regular equivalence

Multiplex networks

Two-mode networks

Some statistical tools

After word

Bibliography

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