eBook - ePub
Doing Social Network Research
Network-based Research Design for Social Scientists
- 280 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
About this book
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.
Frequently asked questions
Yes, you can cancel anytime from the Subscription tab in your account settings on the Perlego website. Your subscription will stay active until the end of your current billing period. Learn how to cancel your subscription.
No, books cannot be downloaded as external files, such as PDFs, for use outside of Perlego. However, you can download books within the Perlego app for offline reading on mobile or tablet. Learn more here.
Perlego offers two plans: Essential and Complete
- Essential is ideal for learners and professionals who enjoy exploring a wide range of subjects. Access the Essential Library with 800,000+ trusted titles and best-sellers across business, personal growth, and the humanities. Includes unlimited reading time and Standard Read Aloud voice.
- Complete: Perfect for advanced learners and researchers needing full, unrestricted access. Unlock 1.4M+ books across hundreds of subjects, including academic and specialized titles. The Complete Plan also includes advanced features like Premium Read Aloud and Research Assistant.
We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.
Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.
Yes! You can use the Perlego app on both iOS or Android devices to read anytime, anywhere — even offline. Perfect for commutes or when you’re on the go.
Please note we cannot support devices running on iOS 13 and Android 7 or earlier. Learn more about using the app.
Please note we cannot support devices running on iOS 13 and Android 7 or earlier. Learn more about using the app.
Yes, you can access Doing Social Network Research by Garry Robins in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Social Science Research & Methodology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
Information
References
(2013) Web Social Science: Concepts, Data and Tools for Social Scientists in the Digital Age. London: Sage.
, and (2012) Capturing context: Integrating spatial and social network analysis. Social Networks, 34, 1–5.
(ed.) (2011) Social Network Data Analytics. New York: Springer.
and (2013) Introduction to the special issue on advances in two-mode networks. Social Networks, 35, 145–147.
, , and (2008) Mixed membership stochastic blockmodels. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 9, 1981–2014.
, , , etal. (2008) High incidence of hepatitis C virus reinfection in a cohort of injecting drug users. Hepatology, 48, 1746–1752.
, , , and (2009) Does information about IDUs’ injecting networks predict exposure to the hepatitis C virus? Hepatitis Monthly, 9, 17–23.
and (2002) Statistical mechanics of complex networks. Reviews of Modern Physics, 74, 47.
(2011) Models and methods to identify peer effects. In and (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis (pp. 514–532). London: Sage.
and (2011) Creating social contagion through viral product design: A randomized trial of peer influence in networks. Management Science, 57, 1623–1639.
and (2013) Friendship networks and social status. Network Science, 1, 16–30.
(2012) The network takeover. Nature Physics, 8, 14–16.
and (1999) Emergence of scaling in random networks. Science, 286, 509–512.
(2007) Modularity and community detection in bipartite networks. Physical Review E, 76, 066102.
(1954) Class and committees in a Norwegian island parish. Human Relations, 7, 39–58.
, , , etal. (2013) Empirical temporal ...
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