Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek
Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek
Andrej Mrvar , University of Ljubljana
Vladimir Batagelj , University of Ljubljana
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9780521174800This was the first textbook on social network analysis integrating theory, applications, and professional software for performing network analysis (Pajek). Step by step, the book introduces the main structural concepts and their applications in social research with exercises to test the understanding. An application section explaining how to perform the network analyses with Pajek software follows each theoretical section. Pajek software and datasets for all examples are freely available, so the reader can learn network analysis by doing it. In addition, each chapter offers case studies for practising network analysis. In the end, the reader has the knowledge, skills, and tools to apply social network analysis in all social sciences, ranging from anthropology and sociology to business administration and history.
- Learning by doing: hands-on experience from day one with Pajek professional computer software for network analysis and visualization (operating under Windows 95 and later), computer procedures are extensively discussed and illustrated
- Each chapter starts with visual exploration, followed by computation of formal indices, because visualization helps to understand the structural feature summarized by an index. No formulae; concepts from mathematical graph theory are presented verbatim and visually
- An introduction to basic concepts from network analysis as well as their application in the social sciences; network concepts are presented in the frame of social theory; a wide variety of real life examples from several social sciences, which demonstrate research strategies in social network analysis
Reviews & endorsements
"Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek, is an introduction to both network analysis in general and to the Pajek package in particular. It is an excellent book for the beginner: clearly written, well presented, comprehensive and engaging." -Nick Crossley, Sociology
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September 2005Adobe eBook Reader
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Table of Contents
- Part I. Fundamentals
- Section 1. Looking for Social Structure:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Sociometry and sociogram
- 3. Exploratory social network analysis
- 4. Assembling a social network
- 5. Summary
- 6. Questions
- 7. Assignment
- 8. Further reading
- 9 Answers
- Section 2. Attributes and Relations:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Example: the world system
- 3. Partitions
- 4. Reduction of a network
- 5. Vectors and coordinates
- 6. Network analysis and statistics
- 7. Summary
- 8. Questions
- 9. Assignment
- 10. Further reading
- 11. Answers
- Part II. Cohesion
- Section 3. Cohesive Subgroups:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Example
- 3. Density and degree
- 4. Components
- 5. Cores
- 6. Cliques and complete subnetworks
- 7. Summary
- 8. Questions
- 9. Assignment
- 10. Further reading
- 11. Answers
- Section 4. Sentiments and Friendship:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Balance theory
- 3. Example
- 4. Detecting structural balance and clusterability
- 5. Development in time
- 6. Summary
- 7. Questions
- 8. Assignment
- 9. Further reading
- 10. Answers
- Section 5. Affiliations:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Example
- 3. Two-mode and one-mode networks
- 4. M-slices
- 5. The third dimension
- 6. Summary
- 7. Questions
- 8. Assignment
- 9. Further reading
- 10. Answers
- Part III. Brokerage: Section 6. Center and periphery:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Example
- 3. Distance
- 4. Betweenness
- 5. Summary
- 6. Questions
- 7. Assignment
- 8. Further reading
- 9. Answers
- Section 7. Brokers and Bridges:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Example
- 3. Bridges and bi-components
- 4. Ego-networks and constraint
- 5. Affiliations and brokerage roles
- 6. Summary
- 7. Questions
- 8. Assignment
- 9. Further reading
- 10. Answers
- Section 8. Diffusion:
- 1. Example
- 2. Contagion
- 3. Exposure and thresholds
- 4. Critical mass
- 5. Summary
- 6. Questions
- 7. Assignment
- 8. Further reading
- 9. Answers
- Part IV. Ranking: Section 9. Prestige:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Example
- 3. Popularity and indegree
- 4. Correlation
- 5. Domains
- 6. Proximity prestige
- 7. Summary
- 8. Questions
- 9. Assignment
- 10. Further reading
- 11. Answers
- Section 10. Ranking:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Example
- 3. Triadic analysis
- 4. Acyclic networks
- 5. Symmetric-acyclic decomposition
- 6. Summary
- 7. Questions
- 8. Assignment
- 9. Further reading
- 10. Answers
- Section 11. Genealogies and Citations:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Example I: Genealogy of the Ragusan nobility
- 3. Family trees
- 4. Social research on genealogies
- 5. Example II: Citations among papers on network centrality
- 6. Citations
- 7. Summary
- 8. Questions
- 9. Assignment 1
- 10. Assignment 2
- 11. Further reading
- 12. Answers
- Part V. Roles: Section 12. Blockmodels
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Matrices and permutation
- 3. Roles and positions: equivalence
- 4. Blockmodeling
- 5. Summary
- 6. Questions
- 7. Assignment
- 8. Further reading
- 9 Answers
- Appendices.
