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How do we interact with people in our everyday life? Who are the
people we are connected to? What are the consequences of
overlapping social circles and how people deal with the potential
emerging conflicts? What are the structural and cultural mechanisms
that regulate social worlds? Network science is a scientific
approach to the study of network dependencies and associations
which tries to answer these and many other questions. This book
explores the underlying mechanisms that regulate social life as
they are produced, reproduced, modified, and abandoned in the
spatial and temporal patterns of interactions. The mixed methods
approach, that combines formal network analysis with qualitative
materials and statistical tools, shows the importance of
contextualising structural mechanisms in their social and cultural
environment, and allows overcoming the traditional methodological
boundaries that shape the field of social sciences.
How do we interact with people in our everyday life? Who are the
people we are connected to? What are the consequences of
overlapping social circles and how people deal with the potential
emerging conflicts? What are the structural and cultural mechanisms
that regulate social worlds? Network science is a scientific
approach to the study of network dependencies and associations
which tries to answer these and many other questions. This book
explores the underlying mechanisms that regulate social life as
they are produced, reproduced, modified, and abandoned in the
spatial and temporal patterns of interactions. The mixed methods
approach, that combines formal network analysis with qualitative
materials and statistical tools, shows the importance of
contextualising structural mechanisms in their social and cultural
environment, and allows overcoming the traditional methodological
boundaries that shape the field of social sciences.
The ego-net approach to social network analysis, which takes
discrete individual actors and their contacts as its starting
point, is one of the most widely used approaches in the field. This
is the first textbook to take readers through each stage of ego-net
research, from conception, through research design and data
gathering to analysis. It starts with the basics, assuming no prior
knowledge of social network analysis, but then moves on to
introduce cutting edge innovations, covering both new statistical
approaches to ego-net analysis and also the most recent thinking on
mixing methods (quantitative and qualitative) to achieve depth and
rigour. It is an absolute must for anybody wishing to explore the
importance of networks.
The ego-net approach to social network analysis, which takes
discrete individual actors and their contacts as its starting
point, is one of the most widely used approaches in the field. This
is the first textbook to take readers through each stage of ego-net
research, from conception, through research design and data
gathering to analysis. It starts with the basics, assuming no prior
knowledge of social network analysis, but then moves on to
introduce cutting edge innovations, covering both new statistical
approaches to ego-net analysis and also the most recent thinking on
mixing methods (quantitative and qualitative) to achieve depth and
rigour. It is an absolute must for anybody wishing to explore the
importance of networks.
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