Figures
2.1Example of sociocentric design: The bank wiring room games network
2.2A sociogram depicting the structure of adolescent romantic or sexual networks from a sociometric study of sexually transmitted infections
2.3Egocentric social networks of patients with and without dementia
3.1Name interpreter completion as a function of number of alters named in web-based ego network surveys (grayscale)
3.2Online participant-aided sociogram for collecting egocentric network data (grayscale)
3.3Doc’s egocentric network, as observed by Whyte (grayscale, 1943)
3.4Egocentric social network of suffragette Helen Watts, produced using archival data (grayscale)
5.1Relationship between network size and number of evaluations of alter-alter pairs
5.2Web-based software designed to facilitate reporting of ties between alters
6.13Ego network with age, gender, occupation, and tie strengths
6.18aMultidimensional scaling of alter characteristics for French managers
6.18bMultidimensional scaling of alter characteristics for American managers
6.19A participant-aided sociogram in four stages of completion (grayscale)
6.24Stylized representations of selected characteristics of twenty-five ego networks at two points in time (grayscale)
7.7Screen shot of “File | Import | Column-wise | Variables” window in E-NET (grayscale)
7.10Screen shot of “Visualization” tab view in E-NET (grayscale)
8.1Levels of observation and analysis in ego network research
8.2Scatterplot with fitted OLS regression line for the effects of ego extroversion on network likeability
8.3Hierarchical data structure for egocentric network analysis
8.4The random intercept model splits up the intercept variance into within- and between-cluster differences
8.5Illustration of a random intercept regression model predicting egos’ perceptions of alters’ likeability
8.6Scatterplot with fitted random intercept regression line for the effects of alter attractiveness on alter likeability
8.8Scatterplot with fitted random coefficient regression line for the effect of alter attractiveness on alter likeability
8.9Individual regression lines, random coefficient regression model predicting alter likeability
8.10Hierarchical three-level data structure for egocentric network analysis
8.11Crossover data structure for egocentric network analysis
8.13Predicted values of number of support resources for three-way cross-level interaction, Northern California Community Study
9.2Calculating membership turnover in a personal social network
9.4The longitudinal random coefficient model with between- and within-person differences
9.5Longitudinal and hierarchical three-level data structure for ego network analysis
9.6Scatterplot with fitted random coefficient regression line for the effects of time on network size among new parents
9.7Individual regression lines from a random coefficient regression model predicting network size over time
9.8Predicted values of the nonlinear effect of time on intergroup bias
10.1Micro-configurations in an ERGM analysis of forty-two whole networks
10.2Ego network (inset) corresponding to Node 3 in a whole network
11.1Social network formation in the premodern era (grayscale)
11.2Social network formation in the contemporary era (grayscale)
11.4A cooperation-supporting social quilt of connected subnetworks
