Awards
- Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2011
- Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2011.
Overview
This sparkling Handbook offers an unrivalled resource for those engaged in the cutting edge field of social network analysis. Systematically, it introduces readers to the key concepts, substantive topics, central methods and prime debates. Among the specific areas covered are: Network theory Interdisciplinary applications Online networks Corporate networks Lobbying networks Deviant networks Measuring devices Key Methodologies Software applications. The result is a peerless resource for teachers and students which offers a critical survey of the origins, basic issues and major debates. The Handbook provides a one-stop guide that will be used by readers for decades to come.
Full Product Details
Author: John Scott ,
Peter J. Carrington
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Imprint: Sage Publications Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 17.40cm
, Height: 4.10cm
, Length: 24.60cm
Weight: 1.290kg
ISBN: 9781847873958
ISBN 10: 1847873952
Pages: 640
Publication Date: 18 May 2011
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Replaced By: 9781529779615
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.
Reviews
Over the past decades Social Network Analysis has broadened its scope from anthropology and sociology to all behavioral and social sciences, from social and organizational psychology to management science and economics. This Handbook provides well-founded introductions and overviews for a broad range of social network studies, approaches, and methodology. It is a must for everybody who is interested in the way social network relations evolve, are structured and affect outcomes in any part of our life and society Frans N. Stokman Professor of Social Science Research Methodology, ICS, University of Groningen, The Netherlands <hr color= GBP666666 size= 1px /> There is something for everyone in The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis. Whether you are brand new to the field or a seasoned expert, interested in the theoretical underpinnings of network analysis or the methodological nuts and bolts associated with analyzing the evolution of an affiliation network over time, this book is a must have Michael Schwartz, Chair, Department of Sociology Stony Brook University, USA <hr color= GBP666666 size= 1px /> An outstanding volume that brings together contributions from the world's leading experts on social network analysis. Methods, theory and substantive applications are presented in a clear exposition making this the most comprehensive text available in this rapidly expanding and changing field. For anyone with any interest in social networks this is quite simply a must have book Martin Everett, Professor of Social Network Analysis, Manchester University, UK Over the past decades Social Network Analysis has broadened its scope from anthropology and sociology to all behavioral and social sciences, from social and organizational psychology to management science and economics. This Handbook provides well-founded introductions and overviews for a broad range of social network studies, approaches, and methodology. It is a must for everybody who is interested in the way social network relations evolve, are structured and affect outcomes in any part of our life and society Frans N. Stokman Professor of Social Science Research Methodology, ICS, University of Groningen, The Netherlands <hr color= GBP666666 size= 1px /> There is something for everyone in The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis. Whether you are brand new to the field or a seasoned expert, interested in the theoretical underpinnings of network analysis or the methodological nuts and bolts associated with analyzing the evolution of an affiliation network over time, this book is a must have Michael Schwartz, Chair, Department of Sociology Stony Brook University, USA <hr color= GBP666666 size= 1px /> An outstanding volume that brings together contributions from the world's leading experts on social network analysis. Methods, theory and substantive applications are presented in a clear exposition making this the most comprehensive text available in this rapidly expanding and changing field. For anyone with any interest in social networks this is quite simply a must have book Martin Everett, Professor of Social Network Analysis, Manchester University, UK
Over the past decades Social Network Analysis has broadened its scope from anthropology and sociology to all behavioral and social sciences, from social and organizational psychology to management science and economics. This Handbook provides well-founded introductions and overviews for a broad range of social network studies, approaches, and methodology. It is a must for everybody who is interested in the way social network relations evolve, are structured and affect outcomes in any part of our life and society Frans N. Stokman Professor of Social Science Research Methodology, ICS, University of Groningen, The Netherlands <hr color= GBP666666 size= 1px /> There is something for everyone in The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis. Whether you are brand new to the field or a seasoned expert, interested in the theoretical underpinnings of network analysis or the methodological nuts and bolts associated with analyzing the evolution of an affiliation network over time, this book is a must have Michael Schwartz, Chair, Department of Sociology Stony Brook University, USA <hr color= GBP666666 size= 1px /> An outstanding volume that brings together contributions from the world's leading experts on social network analysis. Methods, theory and substantive applications are presented in a clear exposition making this the most comprehensive text available in this rapidly expanding and changing field. For anyone with any interest in social networks this is quite simply a must have book Martin Everett, Professor of Social Network Analysis, Manchester University, UK
'There is something for everyone in The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis. Whether you are brand new to the field or a seasoned expert, interested in the theoretical underpinnings of network analysis or the methodological nuts and bolts associated with analyzing the evolution of an affiliation network over time, this book is a must have' - Michael Schwartz, Chair, Department of Sociology, Stony Brook University, USA <hr color= GBP666666 size= 1px /> 'An outstanding volume that brings together contributions from the world's leading experts on social network analysis. Methods, theory and substantive applications are presented in a clear exposition making this the most comprehensive text available in this rapidly expanding and changing field. For anyone with any interest in social networks this is quite simply a must have book- Martin Everett, Professor of Social Network Analysis, Manchester University, UK
Author Information
John Scott is an Honorary Professor at the Universities of Essex, Exeter, and Copenhagen. He was formerly a professor of sociology at the Universities of Essex and Leicester, and pro-vice-chancellor for research at the University of Plymouth. He has been president of the British Sociological Association, Chair of the Sociology Section of the British Academy, and in 2013 was awarded the CBE for Services to Social Science. His work covers theoretical sociology, the history of sociology, elites and social stratification, and social network analysis. His most recent books include British Social Theory: Recovering Lost Traditions before 1950 (SAGE, 2018), Envisioning Sociology. Victor Branford, Patrick Geddes, and the Quest for Social Reconstruction (with Ray Bromley, SUNY Press, 2013), Objectivity and Subjectivity in Social Research (with Gayle Letherby and Malcolm Williams, SAGE, 2011).
