Doing Social Network Research

Network-based Research Design for Social Scientists

Garry Robins

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781446276136
  9781446276129
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473916722
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Research & Methodology
• Index: Social Sciences

Are you struggling to design your social network research? Are you looking for a book that covers more than social network analysis?

 

If so, this is the book for you! With straight-forward guidance on research design and data collection, as well as social network analysis, this book takes you start to finish through the whole process of doing network research. Open the book and you?ll find practical, ?how to? advice and worked examples relevant to PhD students and researchers from across the social and behavioural sciences.

 

The book covers:

• Fundamental network concepts and theories
• Research questions and study design
• Social systems and data structures
• Network observation and measurement
• Methods for data collection
• Ethical issues for social network research
• Network visualization
• Methods for social network analysis
• Drawing conclusions from social network results

This is a perfect guide for all students and researchers looking to do empirical social network research.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• About the author
• Preface
• The difference with social network research
• Fundamental network concepts and ideas
• Thinking about networks: Research questions and study design
• Social systems and data structures: Relational ties and actor attributes
• Network observation and measurement
• The empirical context of network data collection
• Ethical issues for social network research
• Network visualization: What it can and cannot do
• A review of social network analytic methods
• Drawing conclusions: Inference, generalization, causality and other weighty matters