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This book answers the question of whether we can apply evolutionary
theories to our understanding of the development of social
structures. Social networks have increasingly become the focus of
many social scientists as a way of analyzing these social
structures. While many powerful network analytic tools have been
developed and applied to a wide range of empirical phenomena,
understanding the evolution of social organization still requires
theories and analyses of social network evolutionary processes.
Researchers from a variety of disciplines have combined their
efforts in what is an indication of some very promising future
research and the work represented in this volume provides a basis
for a sustained analysis of the evolution of social life.
Presently the world is undergoing tremendous social, cultural and
economic transformation. For sociologists, the challenge is
arriving at a sound mapping of this tumultuous world stage. In this
book, the contributing authors consider solidarity as a cognitive
problem of basic science. They examine how solidarity is produced
and reproduced, how it is related to social processes, and how such
processes can be formalized and create conditions for productively
studying their properties. Mathematical models and representations
are presented by the authors as a coherent set of tools for
understanding many social phenomena.
Presently the world is undergoing tremendous social, cultural and
economic transformation. For sociologists, the challenge is
arriving at a sound mapping of this tumultuous world stage.
In this book, the contributing authors consider solidarity as a
cognitive problem of basic science. They examine how solidarity is
produced and reproduced, how it is related to social processes, and
how such processes can be formalized and create conditions for
productively studying their properties. Mathematical models and
representations are presented by the authors as a coherent set of
tools for understanding many social phenomena.
This book answers the question of whether we can apply evolutionary
theories to our understanding of the development of social
structures.
Social networks have increasingly become the focus of many social
scientists as a way of analyzing these social structures. While
many powerful network analytic tools have been developed and
applied to a wide range of empirical phenomena, understanding the
evolution of social organization still requires theories and
analyses of social network evolutionary processes. Researchers from
a variety of disciplines have combined their efforts in what is an
indication of some very promising future research and the work
represented in this volume provides a basis for a sustained
analysis of the evolution of social life.
This book provides an integrated treatment of blockmodeling, the
most frequently used technique in social network analysis. It
secures its mathematical foundations and then generalizes
blockmodeling for the analysis of many types of network structures.
Examples are used throughout the text and include small group
structures, little league baseball teams, intra-organizational
networks, inter-organizational networks, baboon grooming networks,
marriage ties of noble families, trust networks, signed networks,
Supreme Court decisions, journal citation networks, and alliance
networks. Also provided is an integrated treatment of algebraic and
graph theoretic concepts for network analysis and a broad
introduction to cluster analysis. These formal ideas are the
foundations for the authors' proposal for direct optimizational
approaches to blockmodeling which yield blockmodels that best fit
the data, a measure of fit that is integral to the establishment of
blockmodels, and creates the potential for many generalizations and
a deductive use of blockmodeling.
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