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1. Social networks : an introduction

   Bruggeman, Jeroen

   London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

   The first textbook to combines new with still-valuable older methods and theories. Innovative pedagogy explains mathematical models and concepts, and examples ranging from anthropology to organizational sociology and business studies will ensure wide applicability. An easy to use software tool, free of charge and open source, is appended on the supporting website that will enable readers to depict and analyze networks of their interest.Social Networks: An Introduction is the first textbook that combines new with still-valuable older methods and theories. Designed to be a core text for graduate (and some undergraduate) courses in a variety of disciplines it is well-suited for everybody who makes a first encounter with the field of social networks, both academics and practitioners. This book includes reviews, study questions and text boxes as well as using innovative pedagogy to explain mathematical models and concepts. Examples ranging from anthropology to organizational sociology and business studies ensure wide applicability. An easy to use software tool, free of charge and open source, is appended on the supporting website that enables readers to depict and analyze networks of their interest. It is essential reading for students in sociology, anthropology, and business studies and can be used as secondary material for courses in economics and political science.

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2. Social networks

   [Lausanne] Elsevier Sequoia.

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3. Social networks : critical concepts in sociology

   London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

   The idea of the social network originated in attempts to examine social relationships in terms of their structural patterns and their change over time. The concept of social networks was first developed through social psychological work on the communication and leadership structures of small groups as well as sociological and anthropological work on kinship and community relations. From the 1960s, this idea came to be extended to a wider range of social relations, especially economic and political relations, through the formulation of mathematical models of networks. Facilitated by advances in computing technology, the construction of more systematic and more powerful network methods were subsequently developed. The aim of this collection is to bring together the principal sources in the development of the techniques of social network analysis, from early metaphorical statements in Simmel and Radcliffe-Brown through the more systematic explorations in sociology and social anthropology to contemporary formalizations. A new introduction explores the history of social networks and highlights the arguments of those who treat social network analysis as a loose, qualitative approach, as well as those who see potential in its technical, mathematical uses.

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