Advances in Social Network Analysis: Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

Stanley Wasserman, Joseph Galaskiewicz

SAGE Publications, Jul 27, 1994 - Social Science - 299 pages

In this book, leading methodologists address the issue of how effectively to apply the latest developments in social network analysis to behavioural and social science disciplines.

Topics examined include: ways to specify the network contents to be studied; how to select the method for representing network structures; how social network analysis has been used to study interorganizational relations via the resource dependence model; how to use a contact matrix for studying the spread of disease in epidemiology; and how cohesion and structural equivalence network theories relate to studying social influence. The book also offers some statistical models for social support networks.

About the author

Stanley Wasserman is Professor of psychology, statistics, and sociology at the University of Illinois-Champaign. He has done research on methodology for social networks for almost thirty years. He has edited books on the subject, including Advances in Social Network Analysis: Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (1994), and Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (1994). His work is recognized by statisticians as well as social and behavioral scientists worldwide. He is currently Book Review Editor of Chance, and an Associate Editor of Journal of the American Statistical Association and Psychometrika. He has also been a very active consultant, and is currently Chief Scientist of Visible Path, an organizational network software firm.

Galaskiewicz is Professor of Sociology and Strategic Management and Organization at the University of Minnesota.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Advances in Social Network Analysis: Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences; SAGE Focus Editions
• Editors: Stanley Wasserman, Joseph Galaskiewicz
• Contributor: Stanley Wasserman
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, 1994
• ISBN: 0803943032, 9780803943032
• Length: 299 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Research