Social Network Analysis

What is Social Network Analysis?/The data used in social network analysis/Is there a network theory?/An overview/The History of Social Network Analysis/The sociogram and sociometry/Balance and group dynamics/Informal organization and community relations/Matrices and cliques/Formal models of community and kinship/Formal methods triumphant/Getting by without the help of your friends/Entry of the social physicists/Data Collection for Social Network Analysis/Asking questions/Making observations/Using documents/Boundaries in relational data/Positional and reputational approaches/Does sampling make sense?/Organizing and Analyzing Network Data/Matrices and relational data/Matrix conventions/An analysis of directorship data/Direction and value in relational data/Computer programs for social network analysis/Terminology for Network Analysis/The language of network analysis/More than joining up the lines/The flow of information and resources/Density of connections/Density in egonets/Problems in density measures/A digression on absolute density/Community structure and density/Popularity, Mediation and Exclusion/Local and overall/Mediation and betweenness/Centrality boosts centrality/Centralization and graph centres/The absolute centre of a graph/Bank centrality in corporate networks/Groups, Factions and Social Divisions/Identifying subgraphs/The components of a network/The strength and stability of components/Cycles and circuits/The contours of components/Cliques within components/Intersecting social circles/Components and citation circles/Structural Locations, Classes and Positions/The structural equivalence of points/Clusters and similarities/Divide and CONCOR/Divisions and equivalence/Regular equivalence in roles and functions/Corporate interlocks and participations/Social Change and Development/Structural change and unintended consequences/Small-world networks/Modelling social change/Testing explanations/Visualizing and Modelling/Taking space seriously/Using multidimensional scaling/Principal components and factors/Non-metric methods/How many dimensions?/Worth a thousand words?/Elites, communities and influence/Business elites and bank power/Notes/Bibliography/Index