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.