Description
While some social scientists may argue that we have always been networked, the increased visibility of networks today across economic, political, and social domains can hardly be disputed. Social networks fundamentally shape our lives and social network analysis has become a vibrant, interdisciplinary field of research.In The Oxford Handbook of Social Networks, Ryan Light and James Moody have gathered forty leading scholars in sociology, archaeology, economics, statistics, and information science, among others, to provide an overview of the theory, methods, and contributions in the field of social networks. Each of the thirty-three chapters in this Handbook moves through the basics of social network analysis aimed at those seeking an introduction to advanced and novel approaches to modeling social networks statistically. They cover both a succinct background to, and future directions for, distinctive approaches to analyzing social networks. The first section of the volume consists of theoretical and methodological approaches to social networks, such as visualization and network analysis, statistical approaches to networks, and network dynamics. Chapters in the second section outline how network perspectives have contributed substantively across numerous fields, including public health, political analysis, and organizational studies.Despite the rapid spread of interest in social network analysis, few volumes capture the state-of-the-art theory, methods, and substantive contributions featured in this volume. This Handbook therefore offers a valuable resource for graduate students and faculty new to networks looking to learn new approaches, scholars interested in an overview of the field, and network analysts looking to expand their skills or substantive areas of research.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction Ryan Light and James MoodyNetwork Basics and Theory2 Network Basics: Points, Lines, and Positions Ryan Light and James Moody3 Theories of Social Networks Jan Fuhse4 Networks & Neo-Structural Sociology Emmanuel Lazega5 Rethinking Networks in the Era of Computational Social Science James A. Kitts and Eric Quintaine6 Networks, Status, and Inequality John Levi Martin and James P. MurphyNetwork Methods7 Strategies for Gathering Social Network Data jimi adams, Tatiane Santos, and Venice Ng Williams8 Social Network Experiments Matthew E. Brashears and Eric Gladstone9 The network scale-up method Tyler H. McCormick10 The Continued Relevance of Ego Network Data Jeffrey A. Smith11 Dyadic, Nodal and Group-level Approaches to Study the Antecedents and Consequences of Networks: Which Social Network Models to Use and When? Filip Agneessens12 An Introduction to Statistical Models for Networks Valentina Kuskova and Stanley Wasserman13 Advances in ERGMs Dean Lusher, Peng Wang, Julia Brennecke, Julien Brailly, Malick Frye, and Colin Gallagher14 Modeling Network Dynamics David R. Schaefer and Christopher Steven Marcum15 Causal Inference for Social Network Analysis Kenneth A. Frank and Ran XuNetwork Dimensions16 Case Studies in Network Community DetectionSaray Shai, Natalie Stanley, Clara Granell, Dane Taylor, and Peter J. Mucha17 Three Perspectives on Centrality Stephen P. Borgatti and Martin G. Everett18 Network Visualization James Moody and Ryan Light19 The Spatial Dimensions of Social Networks Zachary P. Neal20 Five Field-Experimental Tests of Preferential Attachment Arnout van de Rijt and Afife Idil Akin21 Duality beyond persons and groups: culture and affiliation Sophie Mützel and Ronald Breiger22 Networks of Culture, Networks of Meaning: Two Approaches to Text Networks Ryan Light and Jeanine Cunningham23 Historical Network Research Emily Erikson and Eric FelthamNetwork Landscape24 Networks in Archaeology Carl Knappett25 Networks, Kin and Social Support G. Robin Guathier26 Demography and Networks M. Giovanna Merli, Sara R. Curran, and Claire Le Barbenchon27 The Neuroscience of Social Networks Carolyn Parkinson, Thalia Wheatley, and Adam M. Kleinbaum28 Computational Social Science, Big Data, and Networks Paolo Parigi and Bruno Abrahao29 Networks: An Economic PerspectiveMatthew O. Jackson, Brian W. Rogers, and Yves Zenou30 Social Capital and Economic Sociology Steve McDonald and Richard A. Benton31 The International Trade Network Min Zhou32 Maps of Science, Technology, and Education Katy Börner33 Criminal Networks Chris M. Smith and Andrew V. Papachristos
