Full Description
Are you struggling to design your social network research? Are you looking for a book that covers more than social network analysis?
If so, this is the book for you! With straight-forward guidance on research design and data collection, as well as social network analysis, this book takes you start to finish through the whole process of doing network research. Open the book and you'll find practical, 'how to' advice and worked examples relevant to PhD students and researchers from across the social and behavioural sciences.
The book covers:
Fundamental network concepts and theories
Research questions and study design
Social systems and data structures
Network observation and measurement
Methods for data collection
Ethical issues for social network research
Network visualization
Methods for social network analysis
Drawing conclusions from social network results
This is a perfect guide for all students and researchers looking to do empirical social network research.
Contents
The difference with social networks research
Fundamental network concepts and ideas
Thinking about networks: Research questions and study design
Social systems and data structures: relational ties and actor attributes
Network observation and measurement
The empirical context of network data collection
Ethical issues for social networks research
Network visualization: What it can and cannot do
A review of social network analytic methods
Drawing conclusions: Inference, generalization, causality and other weighty matters
