Conducting Personal Network Research
eBook - ePub

Conducting Personal Network Research

A Practical Guide

  1. 270 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Conducting Personal Network Research

A Practical Guide

About this book

Written at an introductory level, and featuring engaging case examples, this book reviews the theory and practice of personal and egocentric network research. This approach offers powerful tools for capturing the impact of overlapping, changing social relationships and contexts on individuals' attitudes and behavior. The authors provide solid guidance on the formulation of research questions; research design; data collection, including decisions about survey modes and sampling frames; the measurement of network composition and structure, including the use of name generators; and statistical modeling, from basic regression techniques to more advanced multilevel and dynamic models. Ethical issues in personal network research are addressed. User-friendly features include boxes on major published studies, end-of-chapter suggestions for further reading, and an appendix describing the main software programs used in the field.
 

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Yes, you can access Conducting Personal Network Research by Christopher McCarty,Miranda J. Lubbers,Raffaele Vacca,José Luis Molina in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Marketing Research. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Methodology in the Social Sciences
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Series Editor’s Note
  6. Prologue
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Contents
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 How Personal Networks Have Been Used So Far
  11. 3 Developing a Research Question
  12. 4 Getting Started: Selecting a Population, Survey Mode, and Sampling Frames
  13. 5 Questions about the Ego
  14. 6 Delineating Personal Networks: Alter Elicitation
  15. 7 Collecting Alter Attributes
  16. 8 Collecting Data about Ties between Alters
  17. 9 Visualizing Personal Networks
  18. 10 Measuring Personal Network Characteristics without Generating Names
  19. 11 Analyzing Personal Network Composition and Structure
  20. 12 Statistical Modeling with Personal Network Data: The Level of Egos
  21. 13 Statistical Modeling with Personal Network Data: The Level of Alters and Ties
  22. 14 Ethics in Personal Network Research
  23. Appendix: Software
  24. References
  25. Author Index
  26. Subject Index
  27. About the Authors
  28. About Guilford Press
  29. Discover Related Guilford Books