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The seminar [was originally] oriented around (1) how to convert ethnographic or social historical
data to a relational network of small or large scale,
with additional research data on the nodes and multiple relations, (2) how to analyze such data, and
(3) how to write up your findings. Two new texts currently in press are now available explicitly
for this purpose, and advance copies will be made available.
On line Texts: Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek de Nooy, Wouter, Andrej Mrvar and Vladimir Batagelj. 2003 (forthcoming). links to EXE self exploding files with data for the book
Networks: Borgatti's on-line instructional materials
Addl Texts:
Exploratory
Social Network Analysis with Pajek 2005.
Wouter de Nooy, Andrej Mrvar, Vladimir Batagelj $39.99, paperback.
John Scott. 2000 (2nd edition) Social
Network Analysis. London: Thousand Oaks. Amazon Price: $27.95. ships within
2-3 days. ISBN: 0761963391 Paperback. See also: Social Network Analysis: A
Handbook by John Scott
Week 1 - discuss in 2
Literature Review: Ties (Weak vs. Strong) Encyclopedia of Community
Generalized Blockmodeling with Pajek: Generalized Blockmodeling : The Modeling Language ("Model 2" handoug)
de Nooy, chapter 12 on blockmodeling
Week 2 - discuss in 3
de Nooy, chapter 2 on world system (attributes and relations), 6 on Center and Periphery (try center/periphery blockmodel with Model 2 language and *.mdl), 10 on Ranking.
Cohesive Subgroups and Role Equivalence: Sampson Monastery examples
Community: Girvin and Newman on edge betweenness deletion
leftright divisive cohesion: Valdes Krebs
Curvature of co-links uncovers hidden thematic layers in the world-wide web. Jean-Pierre Eckman and Elisha Moses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (US), 99, 5825-5829 (2002). Curvature (pdf slides)
1993 Bearman, Peter S. and Kevin D. Everett. "The Structure of Social Protest: 1961-1983." Social Networks 15:171-200. Bearman: other pubs on-line
de Nooy, chapter 10 on Ranking
Triad and Tetrad censuses: Network Motifs: Science 2002
Week 4 - discuss in 5
discussion of projects
2003 Walter W. Powell, Douglas R. White, Kenneth W. Koput and Jason Owen-Smith. Network Dynamics and Field Evolution: The Growth of Interorganizational Collaboration in the Life Sciences. Submitted to: American Journal of Sociology
de Nooy, chapter 8 on diffusion
Week 5 - discuss in 6
Literature Review: Structural Holes
All the World's a Net (pdf)
Readings in Networks and Complexity
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index to articles in Connections
search for topics using google
Supplementary on-line:
Networks and Ethnographic Analysis: Nomads of South Turkey, Douglas White and Ulla Johansen, Lexington Press. 2003 (forthcoming).
reference materials:
Alain Degenne, Michel Forse (1997) Introducing Social Networks. ISM: London, England. Amazon Price: $31.00. May ship within 5-9 days.
Stanley Wasserman & Katherine Faust (1994) Social Network Analysis. Cambridge Univ Press. Paperback. ISBN: 0521387078
Duncan Watts (1999) Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness. Princeton Univ Press. ISBN: 0691005419