Social Networks: An introduction,9780415458023

Social Networks: An introduction

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780415458023
ISBN10: 0415458021
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-07-31
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

The first textbook to combines new with still-valuable older methods and theories. Innovative pedagogy explains mathematical models and concepts, and examples ranging from anthropology to organizational sociology and business studies will ensure wide applicability. An easy to use software tool, free of charge and open source, is appended on the supporting website that will enable readers to depict and analyze networks of their interest.

Table of Contents

Introduction: graph representation of social relations
Conceptualization: making ideas rigorous
Unifying local and global: small worlds
From local to global: search and power laws
Communities, roles, and social cohesion
Social capital as network centrality
Organizations as networks
Computer tools Exercises
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