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A '''social network''' is a [[social structure]] made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as values, visions, ideas, financial exchange, friendship, [[kinship]], dislike, [[conflict]] or [[trade]]. The resulting [[Graph (mathematics)|graph]]-based [[Topology|structures]] are often very [[Complex network|complex]]. |
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Social network analysis views [[social relationship]]s in terms of ''nodes'' and ''ties''. [[Node (computer science)|Nodes]] are the individual actors within the networks, and ties are the relationships between the actors. There can be many kinds of ties between the nodes. Research in a number of academic fields has shown that social networks operate on many levels, from families up to the level of nations, and play a critical role in determining the way problems are solved, organizations are run, and the degree to which individuals succeed in achieving their goals. |
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In its simplest form, a social network is a map of all of the relevant ties between the nodes being studied. The network can also be used to determine the [[social capital]] of individual actors. These concepts are often displayed in a social network diagram, where nodes are the points and ties are the lines. |
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[[Image:social-network.svg|right|340px|thumb|An example of a social network diagram]] |
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==Social network analysis== |
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Social network analysis (related to ''[[network theory]]'') has emerged as a key technique in modern [[sociology]], [[anthropology]], [[sociolinguistics]], [[geography]], [[social psychology]], [[communication studies]], [[information science]], [[organizational studies]], [[economics]], and [[biology]] as well as a popular topic of speculation and study. |
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People have used the social network metaphor for over a century to connote complex sets of relationships between members of social systems at all scales, from interpersonal to international. In 1954, J. A. Barnes started using the term systematically to denote patterns of ties that cut across the concepts traditionally used by the public and social scientists: bounded [[Group (sociology)|groups]] (e.g., tribes, families) and social [[Categorization|categories]] (e.g., gender, ethnicity). Scholars such as S.D. Berkowitz, Stephen Borgatti, [[Ronald Burt]], [[Kathleen Carley]],Martin Everett, Katherine Faust, Linton Freeman, [[Mark Granovetter]], David Knoke, Peter Marsden, Nicholas Mullins, [[Anatol Rapoport#Social network analysis|Anatol Rapoport]], Stanley Wasserman, [[Barry Wellman]], [[Douglas R. White]], and [[Harrison White]] expanded the use of social networks.<ref>Linton Freeman, ''The Development of Social Network Analysis.'' Vancouver: Empirical Pres, 2006.</ref> |
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Social network analysis has now moved from being a suggestive metaphor to an analytic approach to a paradigm, with its own theoretical statements, methods, [[social network analysis software]], and researchers. Analysts reason from whole to part; from structure to relation to individual; from behavior to attitude. They either study ''whole networks'' (also known as ''complete networks''), all of the ties containing specified relations in a defined population, or ''personal networks'', (also known as ''egocentric networks'') the ties that specified people have, such as their "personal communities".<ref>Wellman, Barry and S.D. Berkowitz, eds., 1988. ''Social Structures: A Network Approach.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.</ref> |
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Several analytic tendencies distinguish social network analysis:<ref>Freeman, Linton. 2006. ''The Development of Social Network Analysis.'' Vancouver: Empirical Pres, 2006; Wellman, Barry and S.D. Berkowitz, eds., 1988. ''Social Structures: A Network Approach.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.</ref> |
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:There is no assumption that groups are the building blocks of society: the approach is open to studying less-bounded social systems, from nonlocal [[communities]] to links among [[Web]] sites. |
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:Rather than treating individuals (persons, organizations, states) as discrete units of analysis, it focuses on how the structure of ties affects individuals and their relationships. |
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:In contrast to analyses that assume that socialization into norms determines behavior, network analysis looks to see the extent to which the structure and composition of ties affect norms. |
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The shape of a social network helps determine a network's usefulness to its individuals. Smaller, tighter networks can be less useful to their members than networks with lots of loose connections ([[weak tie]]s) to individuals outside the main network. More open networks, with many weak ties and social connections, are more likely to introduce new ideas and opportunities to their members than closed networks with many redundant ties. In other words, a group of friends who only do things with each other already share the same knowledge and opportunities. A group of individuals with connections to other social worlds is likely to have access to a wider range of information. It is better for individual success to have connections to a variety of networks rather than many connections within a single network. Similarly, individuals can exercise influence or act as brokers within their social networks by bridging two networks that are not directly linked (called filling structural holes).<ref>Scott, John. 1991. ''Social Network Analysis.'' London: Sage.</ref> |
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The power of social network analysis stems from its difference from traditional social scientific studies, which assume that it is the attributes of individual actors—whether they are friendly or unfriendly, smart or dumb, etc.—that matter. Social network analysis produces an alternate view, where the attributes of individuals are less important than their relationships and ties with other actors within the network. This approach has turned out to be useful for explaining many real-world phenomena, but leaves less room for individual agency, the ability for individuals to influence their success, because so much of it rests within the structure of their network. |
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Social networks have also been used to examine how organizations interact with each other, characterizing the many informal connections that link executives together, as well as associations and connections between individual employees at different organizations. For example, power within organizations often comes more from the degree to which an individual within a network is at the center of many relationships than actual job title. Social networks also play a key role in hiring, in business success, and in job performance. Networks provide ways for companies to gather information, deter competition, and [[collusion|collude]] in setting prices or policies.<ref>Wasserman, Stanley, and Katherine Faust. 1994. ''Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.</ref> |
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==History of social network analysis== |
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A summary of the progress of social networks and social network analysis has been written by Linton Freeman.<ref>''The Development of Social Network Analysis'' Vancouver: Empirical Press.</ref> |
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Precursors of social networks in the late 1800s include [[Émile Durkheim]] and [[Ferdinand Tönnies]]. Tönnies argued that social groups can exist as personal and direct social ties that either link individuals who share values and belief (''gemeinschaft'') or impersonal, formal, and instrumental social links (''gesellschaft''). Durkheim gave a non-individualistic explanation of social facts arguing that social phenomena arise when interacting individuals constitute a reality that can no longer be accounted for in terms of the properties of individual actors. He distinguished between a traditional society – "mechanical solidarity" – which prevails if individual differences are minimized, and the modern society – "organic solidarity" – that develops out of cooperation between differentiated individuals with independent roles. |
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[[Georg Simmel]], writing at the turn of the twentieth century, was the first scholar to think directly in social network terms. His essays pointed to the nature of network size on interaction and to the likelihood of interaction in ramified, loosely-knit networks rather than groups (Simmel, 1908/1971). |
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After a hiatus in the first decades of the twentieth century, three main traditions in social networks appeared. In the 1930s, [[Jacob L. Moreno|J.L. Moreno]] pioneered the systematic recording and analysis of social interaction in small groups, especially classrooms and work groups ([[sociometry]]), while a [[Harvard]] group led by [[W. Lloyd Warner]] and [[Elton Mayo]] explored interpersonal relations at work. In 1940, A.R. [[Radcliffe-Brown]]'s presidential address to British anthropologists urged the systematic study of networks.<ref>A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, "On Social Structure," ''Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute:'' 70 (1940): 1-12.</ref> However, it took about 15 years before this call was followed-up systematically. |
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Social network analysis developed with the kinship studies of Elizabeth Bott in [[England]] in the 1950s and the 1950s-1960s [[urbanization]] studies of the [[University of Manchester]] group of anthropologists (centered around [[Max Gluckman]] and later [[J. Clyde Mitchell]]) investigating community networks in southern Africa, India and the United Kingdom. Concomitantly, British anthropologist [[Siegfried Frederick Nadel|S.F. Nadel]] codified a theory of social structure that was influential in later network analysis.<ref>[Nadel, SF. 1957. ''The Theory of Social Structure.'' London: Cohen and West.</ref> |
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In the 1960s-1970s, a growing number of scholars worked to combine the different tracks and traditions. One large group was centered around [[Harrison White]] and his students at [[Harvard University]]: Ivan Chase, Bonnie Erickson, Harriet Friedmann, [[Mark Granovetter]], Nancy Howell, Joel Levine, Nicholas Mullins, John Padgett, Michael Schwartz and [[Barry Wellman]]. White's group thought of themselves as rebelling against the reigning [[structural-functionalist]] orthodoxy of then-dominant Harvard sociologist [[Talcott Parsons]], leading them to devalue concerns with symbols, values, norms and culture. They also were opposed to the [[methodological individualism]] espoused by another Harvard sociologist, [[George Homans]], which was endemic among the dominant [[survey research]]ers and [[positivism|positivists]] of the time. [[Mark Granovetter]] and [[Barry Wellman]] are among the former students of White who have elaborated and popularized social network analysis.<ref>Mark Granovetter, "Introduction for the French Reader," ''Sociologica'' 2 (2007): 1-8; Wellman, Barry. 1988. "Structural Analysis: From Method and Metaphor to Theory and Substance." Pp. 19-61 in ''Social Structures: A Network Approach'', edited by Barry Wellman and S.D. Berkowitz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.</ref> |
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White's was not the only group. Significant independent work was done by scholars elsewhere: [[University of California Irvine]] social scientists interested in mathematical applications, centered around Linton Freeman, including John Boyd, Susan Freeman, Kathryn Faust, [[A. Kimball Romney]] and [[Douglas White]]); quantitative analysts at the [[University of Chicago]], including Joseph Galaskiewicz, Wendy Griswold, Edward Laumann, Peter Marsden, Martina Morris, and John Padgett; and communication scholars at [[Michigan State University]], including [[Nan Lin]] and [[Everett Rogers]]. A substantively-oriented [[University of Toronto]] sociology group developed in the 1970s, centered on former students of Harrison White: S.D. Berkowitz, Harriet Friedmann, Nancy Leslie Howard, Nancy Howell, Lorne Tepperman and [[Barry Wellman]], and also including noted modeler and [[game theory|game theorist]] [[Anatol Rapoport]].<ref>Mark Granovetter, "Introduction for the French Reader," ''Sociologica'' 2 (2007): 1-8; Wellman, Barry. 1988. "Structural Analysis: From Method and Metaphor to Theory and Substance." Pp. 19-61 in ''Social Structures: A Network Approach'', edited by Barry Wellman and S.D. Berkowitz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (see also Scott, 2000 and Freeman, 2004).</ref> |
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== Research == |
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Social network analysis has been used in [[epidemiology]] to help understand how patterns of human contact aid or inhibit the spread of diseases such as HIV in a population. The evolution of social networks can sometimes be modeled by the use of agent based models, providing insight into the interplay between communication rules, [[rumor]] spreading and social structure. |
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SNA may also be an effective tool for [[mass surveillance]] -- for example the [[Total Information Awareness]] program was doing in-depth research on strategies to analyze social networks to determine whether or not U.S. citizens were political threats. |
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[[Diffusion of innovations]] theory explores social networks and their role in influencing the spread of new ideas and practices. Change agents and [[opinion leader]]s often play major roles in spurring the adoption of innovations, although factors inherent to the innovations also play a role. |
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[[Robin Dunbar]] has suggested that the typical size of a social network is constrained to about 150 members due to possible limits in the capacity of the human communication channel. The rule arises from cross-cultural studies in [[sociology]] and especially [[anthropology]] of the maximum size of a [[village]] (in modern parlance most reasonably understood as an ''[[ecovillage]]''). It is theorized in [[evolutionary psychology]] that the [[Dunbar's number|number]] may be some kind of limit of average human ability to [[recognition|recognize]] members and track emotional facts about all members of a group. However, it may be due to [[economics]] and the need to track "[[free rider problem|free riders]]", as it may be easier in larger groups to take advantage of the benefits of living in a community without contributing to those benefits. |
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[[Mark Granovetter]] found in one study that more numerous weak ties can be important in seeking information and innovation. [[Clique]]s have a tendency to [[groupthink|more homogeneous opinions]] as well as sharing many common traits. This [[homophily|homophillic]] tendency was the reason for the members of the cliques to be attracted together in the first place. However, being similar, each member of the clique would also know more or less what the other members knew. To find new information or insights, members of the clique will have to look beyond the clique to its other friends and acquaintances. This is what Granovetter called the [[Mark Granovetter#The Strength of Weak Ties|"the strength of weak ties"]]. |
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[[Guanxi]] is a central concept in Chinese society (and other East Asian cultures) that can be summarized as the use of personal influence. Guanxi can be studied from a social network approach.<ref>Barry Wellman, Wenhong Chen and Dong Weizhen. “Networking Guanxi." Pp. 221-41 in Social Connections in China: Institutions, Culture and the Changing Nature of Guanxi, edited by Thomas Gold, Douglas Guthrie and David Wank. Cambridge University Press, 2002. </ref> |
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The [[small world phenomenon]] is the [[hypothesis]] that the chain of social acquaintances required to connect one arbitrary person to another arbitrary person anywhere in the world is generally short. The concept gave rise to the famous phrase [[six degrees of separation]] after a 1967 ''small world experiment'' by psychologist [[Stanley Milgram]]. In Milgram's experiment, a sample of US individuals were asked to reach a particular target person by passing a message along a chain of acquaintances. The average length of successful chains turned out to be about five intermediaries or six separation steps (the majority of chains in that study actually failed to complete). The methods (and ethics as well) of Milgram's experiment was later questioned by an American scholar, and some further research to replicate Milgram's findings had found that the degrees of connection needed could be higher.<ref>[http://www.judithkleinfeld.com/ar_bigworld.html ''Could It Be A Big World After All?'']: [[Judith Kleinfeld]] article.</ref> Academic researchers continue to explore this phenomenon as Internet-based communication technology has supplemented the phone and postal systems available during the times of Milgram. A recent electronic small world experiment at [[Columbia University]] found that about five to seven degrees of separation are sufficient for connecting any two people through e-mail.<ref>Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age, Duncan Watts.</ref> |
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[[Collaboration graph]]s can be used to illustrate good and bad relationships between humans. A positive edge between two nodes denotes a positive relationship (friendship, alliance, dating) and a negative edge between two nodes denotes a negative relationship (hatred, anger). Signed social network graphs can be used to predict the future evolution of the graph. In signed social networks, there is the concept of "balanced" and "unbalanced" cycles. A balanced cycle is defined as a [[cycle]] where the product of all the signs are positive. Balanced graphs represent a group of people who are unlikely to change their opinions of the other people in the group. Unbalanced graphs represent a group of people who are very likely to change their opinions of the people in there group. For example, a group of 3 people (A, B, and C) where A and B have a positive relationship, B and C have a positive relationship, but C and A have a negative relationship is an unbalanced cycle. This group is very likely to morph into a balanced cycle, such as one where B only has a good relationship with A, and both A and B have a negative relationship with C. By using the concept of balances and unbalanced cycles, the evolution of [[sign]]ed [[social network graph]]s can be predicted. |
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One study has found that [[happiness]] tends to spread through social networks. Specifically, when a person is happy, nearby friends have a 25 percent higher chance of being happy themselves. Furthermore, people at the center of a social network tend to become happier in the future than those at the periphery. Finally, clusters of happy and unhappy people were discerned within the studied networks, with a reach of three degrees of separation (a person's happiness was associated with the level of happiness of their friends' friends' friends).<ref>James Fowler and Nichlas Christakis. 2008. "[http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/337/dec04_2/a2338 Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social network: longitudinal analysis over 20 years in the Framingham Heart Study.]" ''[[British Medical Journal]]''. December 4, 2008: doi:10.1136/bmj.a2338. Media account for those who cannot retrieve the original: [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId= Happiness: It Really is Contagious] Retrieved December 5, 2008.</ref> |
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==Metrics (Measures) in social network analysis== |
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;Betweenness: The extent to which a nodes lies between other nodes in the network. This measure takes into account the connectivity of the node's neighbors, giving a higher value for nodes which bridge clusters. The measure reflects the number of people who a person is connecting indirectly through their direct links.<ref>The most comprehensive reference is: Wasserman, Stanley, & Faust, Katherine. (1994). Social Networks Analysis: Methods and Applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. A short, clear basic summary is in Krebs, Valdis. (2000). "The Social Life of Routers." ''Internet Protocol Journal'', 3 (December): 14-25.</ref> |
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;[[Bridge (graph theory)|Bridge]]: An edge is said to be a bridge if deleting it would cause its endpoints to lie in different components of a graph. |
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;Centrality: This measure gives a rough indication of the social power of a node based on how well they "connect" the network. "Betweenness", "Closeness", and "Degree" are all measures of centrality. |
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;[[Centralization]]: The difference between the number of links for each node divided by maximum possible sum of differences. A centralized network will have many of its links dispersed around one or a few nodes, while a decentralized network is one in which there is little variation between the number of links each node possesses. |
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;[[Proxemics|Closeness]]: The degree an individual is near all other individuals in a network (directly or indirectly). It reflects the ability to access information through the "[[Grapevine (gossip)|grapevine]]" of network members. Thus, closeness is the inverse of the sum of the shortest distances between each individual and every other person in the network. |
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;[[Clustering coefficient]]: A measure of the likelihood that two associates of a node are associates themselves. A higher clustering coefficient indicates a greater 'cliquishness'. |
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;Cohesion: The degree to which actors are connected directly to each other by [[cohesive]] bonds. Groups are identified as ‘[[clique]]s’ if every individual is directly tied to every other individual, ‘[[social circle]]s’ if there is less stringency of direct contact, which is imprecise, or as [[Structural cohesion|structurally cohesive]] blocks if precision is wanted. |
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;Degree: The count of the number of ties to other actors in the network. See also [[degree (graph theory)]]. |
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;(Individual-level) [[Dense graph| Density]]: The degree a respondent's ties know one another/ proportion of ties among an individual's nominees. Network or global-level density is the proportion of ties in a network relative to the total number possible (sparse versus dense networks). |
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;Flow betweenness centrality: The degree that a node contributes to sum of maximum flow between all pairs of nodes (not that node). |
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;Eigenvector centrality: A measure of the importance of a [[Vertex (graph theory)|node]] in a [[network (mathematics)|network]]. It assigns relative scores to all nodes in the network based on the principle that connections to nodes having a high score contribute more to the score of the node in question. |
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;Local Bridge: An edge is a local bridge if its endpoints share no common neighbors. Unlike a bridge, a local bridge is contained in a cycle. |
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;Path Length: The distances between pairs of nodes in the network. Average path-length is the average of these distances between all pairs of nodes. |
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;Prestige: In a directed graph prestige is the term used to describe a node's centrality. "Degree Prestige", "Proximity Prestige", and "Status Prestige" are all measures of Prestige. See also [[degree (graph theory)]]. |
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;Radiality: Degree an individual’s network reaches out into the network and provides novel information and influence. |
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;Reach: The degree any member of a network can reach other members of the network. |
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;[[Structural cohesion]]: The minimum number of members who, if removed from a group, would disconnect the group.<ref>Moody, James, and Douglas R. White (2003). "Structural Cohesion and Embeddedness: A Hierarchical Concept of Social Groups." ''American Sociological Review'' 68(1):103-127. [http://www2.asanet.org/journals/ASRFeb03MoodyWhite.pdf Online]: ([[Portable Document Format|PDF]] file.</ref> |
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;[[Equivalence relation|Structural equivalence]]: Refers to the extent to which nodes have a common set of linkages to other nodes in the system. The nodes don’t need to have any ties to each other to be structurally equivalent. |
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;Structural hole: Static holes that can be strategically filled by connecting one or more links to link together other points. Linked to ideas of [[social capital]]: if you link to two people who are not linked you can control their communication. |
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==Network analytic software== |
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{{main|Social network analysis software}} |
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Network analytic tools are used to represent the nodes (agents) and edges (relationships) in a network, and to analyze the network data. Like other software tools, the data can be saved in external files. Additional information comparing the various data input formats used by network analysis software packages is available at NetWiki. Network analysis tools allow researchers to investigate large networks like the Internet, disease transmission, etc. These tools provide mathematical functions that can be applied to the network model. |
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Visual representation of social networks is important to understand the network data and convey the result of the analysis [http://www.cmu.edu/joss/content/articles/volume1/Freeman.html]. Network analysis tools are used to change the layout, colors, size and advanced properties of the network representation. |
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==See also== |
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* [[Clique]] |
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* [[Community of practice]] |
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* [[Dynamic network analysis]] |
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* [[FOAF (software)]] (Friend of a friend) |
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* [[Knowledge management]] |
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* [[Mathematical sociology]] |
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* [[List of social networking websites]] |
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* [[Network analysis]] |
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* [[Network of practice]] |
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* [[Network science]] |
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* [[Organizational patterns]] |
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* [[Six degrees of separation]] |
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* [[Small world phenomenon]] |
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* [[Social-circles network model]] |
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* [[Social networking service]] |
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* [[Social network aggregation]] |
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* [[Social software]] |
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* [[Social unit]] |
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* [[Social web]] |
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* [[Socio-technical systems]] |
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* [[Triadic closure]] |
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* [[Value network]] |
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* [[Virtual community]] |
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* [[Virtual organization]] |
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==References== |
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==Further reading== |
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* Barnes, J. A. "Class and Committees in a Norwegian Island Parish", ''Human Relations'' 7:39-58 |
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* Berkowitz, Stephen D. 1982. ''An Introduction to Structural Analysis: The Network Approach to Social Research.'' Toronto: Butterworth. ISBN 0409813621 |
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* Brandes, Ulrik, and Thomas Erlebach (Eds.). 2005. ''[http://www.springeronline.com/3-540-24979-6/ Network Analysis: Methodological Foundations]'' Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. |
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* Breiger, Ronald L. 2004. "The Analysis of Social Networks." Pp. 505-526 in ''Handbook of Data Analysis,'' edited by Melissa Hardy and Alan Bryman. London: Sage Publications. ISBN 0761966528 ''[http://www.u.arizona.edu/~breiger/NetworkAnalysis.pdf Excerpts in pdf format]'' |
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* Burt, Ronald S. (1992). ''Structural Holes: The Structure of Competition.'' Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 067484372X |
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* {{it}} Casaleggio, Davide (2008). ''TU SEI RETE. La Rivoluzione del business, del marketing e della politica attraverso le reti sociali.'' ISBN 8890182652 |
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* Carrington, Peter J., John Scott and Stanley Wasserman (Eds.). 2005. ''Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis.'' New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521809597 |
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* Christakis, Nicholas and [[James H. Fowler]] "The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network Over 32 Years," ''New England Journal of Medicine'' 357 (4): 370-379 (26 July 2007) |
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* Doreian, Patrick, Vladimir Batagelj, and Anuska Ferligoj. (2005). ''Generalized Blockmodeling.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521840856 |
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* Freeman, Linton C. (2004) ''The Development of Social Network Analysis: A Study in the Sociology of Science.'' Vancouver: Empirical Press. ISBN 1594577145 |
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* Hill, R. and Dunbar, R. 2002. "Social Network Size in Humans." Human Nature, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 53-72.[http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:sZ_e9TbhRboJ:www.liv.ac.uk/evolpsyc/Hill_Dunbar_networks.pdf+social+network+size&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=1 Google] |
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* {{cite journal | author=Jackson, Matthew O. | title=A Strategic Model of Social and Economic Networks | journal= Journal of Economic Theory | year=2003 | volume=71 | pages=44–74 | doi=10.1006/jeth.1996.0108}} [http://merlin.fae.ua.es/fvega/CourseNetworks-Alicante/Art%EDculos%20del%20curso/Jackson-Wolinsky-JET.pdf pdf] |
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* Huisman, M. and Van Duijn, M. A. J. (2005). Software for Social Network Analysis. In P J. Carrington, J. Scott, & S. Wasserman (Editors), ''Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis'' (pp. 270-316). New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521809597 |
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* Krebs, Valdis (2006) Social Network Analysis, A Brief Introduction. (Includes a list of recent SNA applications [http://www.orgnet.com/sna.html Web Reference].) |
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* Lin, Nan, Ronald S. Burt and Karen Cook, eds. (2001). ''Social Capital: Theory and Research.'' New York: Aldine de Gruyter. ISBN 0202306437 |
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* Mullins, Nicholas. 1973. ''Theories and Theory Groups in Contemporary American Sociology.'' New York: Harper and Row. ISBN 0060446498 |
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* Müller-Prothmann, Tobias (2006): Leveraging Knowledge Communication for Innovation. Framework, Methods and Applications of Social Network Analysis in Research and Development, Frankfurt a. M. et al.: Peter Lang, ISBN 0-8204-9889-0. |
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* {{cite journal | author=Manski, Charles F.| title=Economic Analysis of Social Interactions| journal=Journal of Economic Perspectives| year=2000 | volume=14 | pages=115–36}} [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0895-3309%28200022%2914%3A3%3C115%3AEAOSI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I&size=LARGE&origin=JSTOR-enlargePage ] via [[JSTOR]] |
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* Moody, James, and Douglas R. White (2003). "Structural Cohesion and Embeddedness: A Hierarchical Concept of Social Groups." ''American Sociological Review'' 68(1):103-127. [http://www2.asanet.org/journals/ASRFeb03MoodyWhite.pdf] |
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* {{cite journal | author=Newman, Mark| title=The Structure and Function of Complex Networks| journal=SIAM Review| year=2003 | volume=56 | pages=167–256| doi=10.1137/S003614450342480}} [http://www.santafe.edu/files/gems/paleofoodwebs/Newman2003SIAM.pdf pdf] |
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* Nohria, Nitin and Robert Eccles (1992). ''Networks in Organizations.'' second ed. Boston: Harvard Business Press. ISBN 0875843247 |
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* Nooy, Wouter d., A. Mrvar and Vladimir Batagelj. (2005). ''Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521841739 |
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* Scott, John. (2000). ''Social Network Analysis: A Handbook.'' 2nd Ed. Newberry Park, CA: Sage. ISBN 0761963383 |
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* Sethi, Arjun. (2008). ''Valuation of Social Networking'' [http://fusion.dalmatech.com/%7Eadmin24/files/socialnetworkvaluation.pdf] |
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* Tilly, Charles. (2005). ''Identities, Boundaries, and Social Ties.'' Boulder, CO: Paradigm press. ISBN 1594511314 |
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* Valente, Thomas W. (1995). ''Network Models of the Diffusion of Innovations.'' Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. ISBN 1881303217 |
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* Wasserman, Stanley, & Faust, Katherine. (1994). ''Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521382696 |
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* Watkins, Susan Cott. (2003). "Social Networks." Pp. 909-910 in ''Encyclopedia of Population.'' rev. ed. Edited by Paul George Demeny and Geoffrey McNicoll. New York: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 0028656776 |
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* Watts, Duncan J. (2003). ''Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness.'' Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691117047 |
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* Watts, Duncan J. (2004). ''Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age.'' W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0393325423 |
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* Wellman, Barry (1998). ''Networks in the Global Village: Life in Contemporary Communities.'' Boulder, CO: Westview Press. ISBN 0813311500 |
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* Wellman, Barry. 2001. "Physical Place and Cyber-Place: Changing Portals and the Rise of Networked Individualism." ''International Journal for Urban and Regional Research'' 25 (2): 227-52. |
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* Wellman, Barry and Berkowitz, Stephen D. (1988). ''Social Structures: A Network Approach.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521244412 |
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* Weng, M. (2007). ''A Multimedia Social-Networking Community for Mobile Devices'' Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of the Arts/ New York University |
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* [http://www.socialnetworkanalysis.info Annual International Workshop on Social Network Mining and Analysis] SNAKDD - Annual computer science workshop for interdisciplinary studies on social network mining and analysis |
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* [http://www.orgnet.com/orgnetmap.pdf Organizational Network Mapping] - SNA applied in business organizations |
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* [http://supernet.som.umass.edu Virtual Center for Supernetworks] |
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* [http://www.visualcomplexity.com VisualComplexity.com] - a visual exploration on mapping complicated and complex networks |
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* [http://necsi.org/research/networks/com122/index.html Dynamic Centrality in Social Networks] |
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* [http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS) at Carnegie Mellon] |
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* [http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/netlab/ABOUT/index.html NetLab at the University of Toronto, studies the intersection of social, communication, information and computing networks] |
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* [http://netwiki.amath.unc.edu/ Netwiki] (wiki page devoted to social networks; maintained at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
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* [http://www.netscience.usma.edu Network Science Center at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY] |
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* [http://www.orgnet.com/SocialLifeOfRouters.pdf Social Life of Routers] - social network analysis applied to computer systems |
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* [http://www.fas-research.com/visualizations.shtml FAS.research] - network visualizations produced using social network analysis |
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* [http://learningforsustainability.net/social_learning/networks.php Building networks for learning]- A guide to on-line resources on strengthening social networking. |
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A social network is a social structure made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as values, visions, ideas, financial exchange, friendship, kinship, dislike, conflict or trade. The resulting graph-based structures are often very complex.
Social network analysis views social relationships in terms of nodes and ties. Nodes are the individual actors within the networks, and ties are the relationships between the actors. There can be many kinds of ties between the nodes. Research in a number of academic fields has shown that social networks operate on many levels, from families up to the level of nations, and play a critical role in determining the way problems are solved, organizations are run, and the degree to which individuals succeed in achieving their goals.
In its simplest form, a social network is a map of all of the relevant ties between the nodes being studied. The network can also be used to determine the social capital of individual actors. These concepts are often displayed in a social network diagram, where nodes are the points and ties are the lines.
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Social network analysis
Social network analysis (related to network theory) has emerged as a key technique in modern sociology, anthropology, sociolinguistics, geography, social psychology, communication studies, information science, organizational studies, economics, and biology as well as a popular topic of speculation and study.
People have used the social network metaphor for over a century to connote complex sets of relationships between members of social systems at all scales, from interpersonal to international. In 1954, J. A. Barnes started using the term systematically to denote patterns of ties that cut across the concepts traditionally used by the public and social scientists: bounded groups (e.g., tribes, families) and social categories (e.g., gender, ethnicity). Scholars such as S.D. Berkowitz, Stephen Borgatti, Ronald Burt, Kathleen Carley,Martin Everett, Katherine Faust, Linton Freeman, Mark Granovetter, David Knoke, Peter Marsden, Nicholas Mullins, Anatol Rapoport, Stanley Wasserman, Barry Wellman, Douglas R. White, and Harrison White expanded the use of social networks.[1]
Social network analysis has now moved from being a suggestive metaphor to an analytic approach to a paradigm, with its own theoretical statements, methods, social network analysis software, and researchers. Analysts reason from whole to part; from structure to relation to individual; from behavior to attitude. They either study whole networks (also known as complete networks), all of the ties containing specified relations in a defined population, or personal networks, (also known as egocentric networks) the ties that specified people have, such as their "personal communities".[2]
Several analytic tendencies distinguish social network analysis:[3]
- There is no assumption that groups are the building blocks of society: the approach is open to studying less-bounded social systems, from nonlocal communities to links among Web sites.
- Rather than treating individuals (persons, organizations, states) as discrete units of analysis, it focuses on how the structure of ties affects individuals and their relationships.
- In contrast to analyses that assume that socialization into norms determines behavior, network analysis looks to see the extent to which the structure and composition of ties affect norms.
The shape of a social network helps determine a network's usefulness to its individuals. Smaller, tighter networks can be less useful to their members than networks with lots of loose connections (weak ties) to individuals outside the main network. More open networks, with many weak ties and social connections, are more likely to introduce new ideas and opportunities to their members than closed networks with many redundant ties. In other words, a group of friends who only do things with each other already share the same knowledge and opportunities. A group of individuals with connections to other social worlds is likely to have access to a wider range of information. It is better for individual success to have connections to a variety of networks rather than many connections within a single network. Similarly, individuals can exercise influence or act as brokers within their social networks by bridging two networks that are not directly linked (called filling structural holes).[4]
The power of social network analysis stems from its difference from traditional social scientific studies, which assume that it is the attributes of individual actors—whether they are friendly or unfriendly, smart or dumb, etc.—that matter. Social network analysis produces an alternate view, where the attributes of individuals are less important than their relationships and ties with other actors within the network. This approach has turned out to be useful for explaining many real-world phenomena, but leaves less room for individual agency, the ability for individuals to influence their success, because so much of it rests within the structure of their network.
Social networks have also been used to examine how organizations interact with each other, characterizing the many informal connections that link executives together, as well as associations and connections between individual employees at different organizations. For example, power within organizations often comes more from the degree to which an individual within a network is at the center of many relationships than actual job title. Social networks also play a key role in hiring, in business success, and in job performance. Networks provide ways for companies to gather information, deter competition, and collude in setting prices or policies.[5]
History of social network analysis
A summary of the progress of social networks and social network analysis has been written by Linton Freeman.[6]
Precursors of social networks in the late 1800s include Émile Durkheim and Ferdinand Tönnies. Tönnies argued that social groups can exist as personal and direct social ties that either link individuals who share values and belief (gemeinschaft) or impersonal, formal, and instrumental social links (gesellschaft). Durkheim gave a non-individualistic explanation of social facts arguing that social phenomena arise when interacting individuals constitute a reality that can no longer be accounted for in terms of the properties of individual actors. He distinguished between a traditional society – "mechanical solidarity" – which prevails if individual differences are minimized, and the modern society – "organic solidarity" – that develops out of cooperation between differentiated individuals with independent roles.
Georg Simmel, writing at the turn of the twentieth century, was the first scholar to think directly in social network terms. His essays pointed to the nature of network size on interaction and to the likelihood of interaction in ramified, loosely-knit networks rather than groups (Simmel, 1908/1971).
After a hiatus in the first decades of the twentieth century, three main traditions in social networks appeared. In the 1930s, J.L. Moreno pioneered the systematic recording and analysis of social interaction in small groups, especially classrooms and work groups (sociometry), while a Harvard group led by W. Lloyd Warner and Elton Mayo explored interpersonal relations at work. In 1940, A.R. Radcliffe-Brown's presidential address to British anthropologists urged the systematic study of networks.[7] However, it took about 15 years before this call was followed-up systematically.
Social network analysis developed with the kinship studies of Elizabeth Bott in England in the 1950s and the 1950s-1960s urbanization studies of the University of Manchester group of anthropologists (centered around Max Gluckman and later J. Clyde Mitchell) investigating community networks in southern Africa, India and the United Kingdom. Concomitantly, British anthropologist S.F. Nadel codified a theory of social structure that was influential in later network analysis.[8]
In the 1960s-1970s, a growing number of scholars worked to combine the different tracks and traditions. One large group was centered around Harrison White and his students at Harvard University: Ivan Chase, Bonnie Erickson, Harriet Friedmann, Mark Granovetter, Nancy Howell, Joel Levine, Nicholas Mullins, John Padgett, Michael Schwartz and Barry Wellman. White's group thought of themselves as rebelling against the reigning structural-functionalist orthodoxy of then-dominant Harvard sociologist Talcott Parsons, leading them to devalue concerns with symbols, values, norms and culture. They also were opposed to the methodological individualism espoused by another Harvard sociologist, George Homans, which was endemic among the dominant survey researchers and positivists of the time. Mark Granovetter and Barry Wellman are among the former students of White who have elaborated and popularized social network analysis.[9]
White's was not the only group. Significant independent work was done by scholars elsewhere: University of California Irvine social scientists interested in mathematical applications, centered around Linton Freeman, including John Boyd, Susan Freeman, Kathryn Faust, A. Kimball Romney and Douglas White); quantitative analysts at the University of Chicago, including Joseph Galaskiewicz, Wendy Griswold, Edward Laumann, Peter Marsden, Martina Morris, and John Padgett; and communication scholars at Michigan State University, including Nan Lin and Everett Rogers. A substantively-oriented University of Toronto sociology group developed in the 1970s, centered on former students of Harrison White: S.D. Berkowitz, Harriet Friedmann, Nancy Leslie Howard, Nancy Howell, Lorne Tepperman and Barry Wellman, and also including noted modeler and game theorist Anatol Rapoport.[10]
Research
Social network analysis has been used in epidemiology to help understand how patterns of human contact aid or inhibit the spread of diseases such as HIV in a population. The evolution of social networks can sometimes be modeled by the use of agent based models, providing insight into the interplay between communication rules, rumor spreading and social structure.
SNA may also be an effective tool for mass surveillance -- for example the Total Information Awareness program was doing in-depth research on strategies to analyze social networks to determine whether or not U.S. citizens were political threats.
Diffusion of innovations theory explores social networks and their role in influencing the spread of new ideas and practices. Change agents and opinion leaders often play major roles in spurring the adoption of innovations, although factors inherent to the innovations also play a role.
Robin Dunbar has suggested that the typical size of a social network is constrained to about 150 members due to possible limits in the capacity of the human communication channel. The rule arises from cross-cultural studies in sociology and especially anthropology of the maximum size of a village (in modern parlance most reasonably understood as an ecovillage). It is theorized in evolutionary psychology that the number may be some kind of limit of average human ability to recognize members and track emotional facts about all members of a group. However, it may be due to economics and the need to track "free riders", as it may be easier in larger groups to take advantage of the benefits of living in a community without contributing to those benefits.
Mark Granovetter found in one study that more numerous weak ties can be important in seeking information and innovation. Cliques have a tendency to more homogeneous opinions as well as sharing many common traits. This homophillic tendency was the reason for the members of the cliques to be attracted together in the first place. However, being similar, each member of the clique would also know more or less what the other members knew. To find new information or insights, members of the clique will have to look beyond the clique to its other friends and acquaintances. This is what Granovetter called the "the strength of weak ties".
Guanxi is a central concept in Chinese society (and other East Asian cultures) that can be summarized as the use of personal influence. Guanxi can be studied from a social network approach.[11]
The small world phenomenon is the hypothesis that the chain of social acquaintances required to connect one arbitrary person to another arbitrary person anywhere in the world is generally short. The concept gave rise to the famous phrase six degrees of separation after a 1967 small world experiment by psychologist Stanley Milgram. In Milgram's experiment, a sample of US individuals were asked to reach a particular target person by passing a message along a chain of acquaintances. The average length of successful chains turned out to be about five intermediaries or six separation steps (the majority of chains in that study actually failed to complete). The methods (and ethics as well) of Milgram's experiment was later questioned by an American scholar, and some further research to replicate Milgram's findings had found that the degrees of connection needed could be higher.[12] Academic researchers continue to explore this phenomenon as Internet-based communication technology has supplemented the phone and postal systems available during the times of Milgram. A recent electronic small world experiment at Columbia University found that about five to seven degrees of separation are sufficient for connecting any two people through e-mail.[13]
Collaboration graphs can be used to illustrate good and bad relationships between humans. A positive edge between two nodes denotes a positive relationship (friendship, alliance, dating) and a negative edge between two nodes denotes a negative relationship (hatred, anger). Signed social network graphs can be used to predict the future evolution of the graph. In signed social networks, there is the concept of "balanced" and "unbalanced" cycles. A balanced cycle is defined as a cycle where the product of all the signs are positive. Balanced graphs represent a group of people who are unlikely to change their opinions of the other people in the group. Unbalanced graphs represent a group of people who are very likely to change their opinions of the people in there group. For example, a group of 3 people (A, B, and C) where A and B have a positive relationship, B and C have a positive relationship, but C and A have a negative relationship is an unbalanced cycle. This group is very likely to morph into a balanced cycle, such as one where B only has a good relationship with A, and both A and B have a negative relationship with C. By using the concept of balances and unbalanced cycles, the evolution of signed social network graphs can be predicted.
One study has found that happiness tends to spread through social networks. Specifically, when a person is happy, nearby friends have a 25 percent higher chance of being happy themselves. Furthermore, people at the center of a social network tend to become happier in the future than those at the periphery. Finally, clusters of happy and unhappy people were discerned within the studied networks, with a reach of three degrees of separation (a person's happiness was associated with the level of happiness of their friends' friends' friends).[14]
Metrics (Measures) in social network analysis
- Betweenness
- The extent to which a nodes lies between other nodes in the network. This measure takes into account the connectivity of the node's neighbors, giving a higher value for nodes which bridge clusters. The measure reflects the number of people who a person is connecting indirectly through their direct links.[15]
- Bridge
- An edge is said to be a bridge if deleting it would cause its endpoints to lie in different components of a graph.
- Centrality
- This measure gives a rough indication of the social power of a node based on how well they "connect" the network. "Betweenness", "Closeness", and "Degree" are all measures of centrality.
- Centralization
- The difference between the number of links for each node divided by maximum possible sum of differences. A centralized network will have many of its links dispersed around one or a few nodes, while a decentralized network is one in which there is little variation between the number of links each node possesses.
- Closeness
- The degree an individual is near all other individuals in a network (directly or indirectly). It reflects the ability to access information through the "grapevine" of network members. Thus, closeness is the inverse of the sum of the shortest distances between each individual and every other person in the network.
- Clustering coefficient
- A measure of the likelihood that two associates of a node are associates themselves. A higher clustering coefficient indicates a greater 'cliquishness'.
- Cohesion
- The degree to which actors are connected directly to each other by cohesive bonds. Groups are identified as ‘cliques’ if every individual is directly tied to every other individual, ‘social circles’ if there is less stringency of direct contact, which is imprecise, or as structurally cohesive blocks if precision is wanted.
- Degree
- The count of the number of ties to other actors in the network. See also degree (graph theory).
- (Individual-level) Density
- The degree a respondent's ties know one another/ proportion of ties among an individual's nominees. Network or global-level density is the proportion of ties in a network relative to the total number possible (sparse versus dense networks).
- Flow betweenness centrality
- The degree that a node contributes to sum of maximum flow between all pairs of nodes (not that node).
- Eigenvector centrality
- A measure of the importance of a node in a network. It assigns relative scores to all nodes in the network based on the principle that connections to nodes having a high score contribute more to the score of the node in question.
- Local Bridge
- An edge is a local bridge if its endpoints share no common neighbors. Unlike a bridge, a local bridge is contained in a cycle.
- Path Length
- The distances between pairs of nodes in the network. Average path-length is the average of these distances between all pairs of nodes.
- Prestige
- In a directed graph prestige is the term used to describe a node's centrality. "Degree Prestige", "Proximity Prestige", and "Status Prestige" are all measures of Prestige. See also degree (graph theory).
- Radiality
- Degree an individual’s network reaches out into the network and provides novel information and influence.
- Reach
- The degree any member of a network can reach other members of the network.
- Structural cohesion
- The minimum number of members who, if removed from a group, would disconnect the group.[16]
- Structural equivalence
- Refers to the extent to which nodes have a common set of linkages to other nodes in the system. The nodes don’t need to have any ties to each other to be structurally equivalent.
- Structural hole
- Static holes that can be strategically filled by connecting one or more links to link together other points. Linked to ideas of social capital: if you link to two people who are not linked you can control their communication.
Network analytic software
Network analytic tools are used to represent the nodes (agents) and edges (relationships) in a network, and to analyze the network data. Like other software tools, the data can be saved in external files. Additional information comparing the various data input formats used by network analysis software packages is available at NetWiki. Network analysis tools allow researchers to investigate large networks like the Internet, disease transmission, etc. These tools provide mathematical functions that can be applied to the network model.
Visual representation of social networks is important to understand the network data and convey the result of the analysis [1]. Network analysis tools are used to change the layout, colors, size and advanced properties of the network representation.
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- Clique
- Community of practice
- Dynamic network analysis
- FOAF (software) (Friend of a friend)
- Knowledge management
- Mathematical sociology
- List of social networking websites
- Network analysis
- Network of practice
- Network science
- Organizational patterns
- Six degrees of separation
- Small world phenomenon
- Social-circles network model
- Social networking service
- Social network aggregation
- Social software
- Social unit
- Social web
- Socio-technical systems
- Triadic closure
- Value network
- Virtual community
- Virtual organization
References
- ^ Linton Freeman, The Development of Social Network Analysis. Vancouver: Empirical Pres, 2006.
- ^ Wellman, Barry and S.D. Berkowitz, eds., 1988. Social Structures: A Network Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Freeman, Linton. 2006. The Development of Social Network Analysis. Vancouver: Empirical Pres, 2006; Wellman, Barry and S.D. Berkowitz, eds., 1988. Social Structures: A Network Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Scott, John. 1991. Social Network Analysis. London: Sage.
- ^ Wasserman, Stanley, and Katherine Faust. 1994. Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ The Development of Social Network Analysis Vancouver: Empirical Press.
- ^ A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, "On Social Structure," Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute: 70 (1940): 1-12.
- ^ [Nadel, SF. 1957. The Theory of Social Structure. London: Cohen and West.
- ^ Mark Granovetter, "Introduction for the French Reader," Sociologica 2 (2007): 1-8; Wellman, Barry. 1988. "Structural Analysis: From Method and Metaphor to Theory and Substance." Pp. 19-61 in Social Structures: A Network Approach, edited by Barry Wellman and S.D. Berkowitz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Mark Granovetter, "Introduction for the French Reader," Sociologica 2 (2007): 1-8; Wellman, Barry. 1988. "Structural Analysis: From Method and Metaphor to Theory and Substance." Pp. 19-61 in Social Structures: A Network Approach, edited by Barry Wellman and S.D. Berkowitz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (see also Scott, 2000 and Freeman, 2004).
- ^ Barry Wellman, Wenhong Chen and Dong Weizhen. “Networking Guanxi." Pp. 221-41 in Social Connections in China: Institutions, Culture and the Changing Nature of Guanxi, edited by Thomas Gold, Douglas Guthrie and David Wank. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
- ^ Could It Be A Big World After All?: Judith Kleinfeld article.
- ^ Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age, Duncan Watts.
- ^ James Fowler and Nichlas Christakis. 2008. "Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social network: longitudinal analysis over 20 years in the Framingham Heart Study." British Medical Journal. December 4, 2008: doi:10.1136/bmj.a2338. Media account for those who cannot retrieve the original: Happiness: It Really is Contagious Retrieved December 5, 2008.
- ^ The most comprehensive reference is: Wasserman, Stanley, & Faust, Katherine. (1994). Social Networks Analysis: Methods and Applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. A short, clear basic summary is in Krebs, Valdis. (2000). "The Social Life of Routers." Internet Protocol Journal, 3 (December): 14-25.
- ^ Moody, James, and Douglas R. White (2003). "Structural Cohesion and Embeddedness: A Hierarchical Concept of Social Groups." American Sociological Review 68(1):103-127. Online: (PDF file.
Further reading
- Barnes, J. A. "Class and Committees in a Norwegian Island Parish", Human Relations 7:39-58
- Berkowitz, Stephen D. 1982. An Introduction to Structural Analysis: The Network Approach to Social Research. Toronto: Butterworth. ISBN 0409813621
- Brandes, Ulrik, and Thomas Erlebach (Eds.). 2005. Network Analysis: Methodological Foundations Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
- Breiger, Ronald L. 2004. "The Analysis of Social Networks." Pp. 505-526 in Handbook of Data Analysis, edited by Melissa Hardy and Alan Bryman. London: Sage Publications. ISBN 0761966528 Excerpts in pdf format
- Burt, Ronald S. (1992). Structural Holes: The Structure of Competition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 067484372X
- Template:It Casaleggio, Davide (2008). TU SEI RETE. La Rivoluzione del business, del marketing e della politica attraverso le reti sociali. ISBN 8890182652
- Carrington, Peter J., John Scott and Stanley Wasserman (Eds.). 2005. Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521809597
- Christakis, Nicholas and James H. Fowler "The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network Over 32 Years," New England Journal of Medicine 357 (4): 370-379 (26 July 2007)
- Doreian, Patrick, Vladimir Batagelj, and Anuska Ferligoj. (2005). Generalized Blockmodeling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521840856
- Freeman, Linton C. (2004) The Development of Social Network Analysis: A Study in the Sociology of Science. Vancouver: Empirical Press. ISBN 1594577145
- Hill, R. and Dunbar, R. 2002. "Social Network Size in Humans." Human Nature, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 53-72.Google
- Jackson, Matthew O. (2003). "A Strategic Model of Social and Economic Networks". Journal of Economic Theory. 71: 44–74. doi:10.1006/jeth.1996.0108. pdf
- Huisman, M. and Van Duijn, M. A. J. (2005). Software for Social Network Analysis. In P J. Carrington, J. Scott, & S. Wasserman (Editors), Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis (pp. 270-316). New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521809597
- Krebs, Valdis (2006) Social Network Analysis, A Brief Introduction. (Includes a list of recent SNA applications Web Reference.)
- Lin, Nan, Ronald S. Burt and Karen Cook, eds. (2001). Social Capital: Theory and Research. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. ISBN 0202306437
- Mullins, Nicholas. 1973. Theories and Theory Groups in Contemporary American Sociology. New York: Harper and Row. ISBN 0060446498
- Müller-Prothmann, Tobias (2006): Leveraging Knowledge Communication for Innovation. Framework, Methods and Applications of Social Network Analysis in Research and Development, Frankfurt a. M. et al.: Peter Lang, ISBN 0-8204-9889-0.
- Manski, Charles F. (2000). "Economic Analysis of Social Interactions". Journal of Economic Perspectives. 14: 115–36. [2] via JSTOR
- Moody, James, and Douglas R. White (2003). "Structural Cohesion and Embeddedness: A Hierarchical Concept of Social Groups." American Sociological Review 68(1):103-127. [3]
- Newman, Mark (2003). "The Structure and Function of Complex Networks". SIAM Review. 56: 167–256. doi:10.1137/S003614450342480. pdf
- Nohria, Nitin and Robert Eccles (1992). Networks in Organizations. second ed. Boston: Harvard Business Press. ISBN 0875843247
- Nooy, Wouter d., A. Mrvar and Vladimir Batagelj. (2005). Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521841739
- Scott, John. (2000). Social Network Analysis: A Handbook. 2nd Ed. Newberry Park, CA: Sage. ISBN 0761963383
- Sethi, Arjun. (2008). Valuation of Social Networking [4]
- Tilly, Charles. (2005). Identities, Boundaries, and Social Ties. Boulder, CO: Paradigm press. ISBN 1594511314
- Valente, Thomas W. (1995). Network Models of the Diffusion of Innovations. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. ISBN 1881303217
- Wasserman, Stanley, & Faust, Katherine. (1994). Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521382696
- Watkins, Susan Cott. (2003). "Social Networks." Pp. 909-910 in Encyclopedia of Population. rev. ed. Edited by Paul George Demeny and Geoffrey McNicoll. New York: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 0028656776
- Watts, Duncan J. (2003). Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691117047
- Watts, Duncan J. (2004). Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0393325423
- Wellman, Barry (1998). Networks in the Global Village: Life in Contemporary Communities. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. ISBN 0813311500
- Wellman, Barry. 2001. "Physical Place and Cyber-Place: Changing Portals and the Rise of Networked Individualism." International Journal for Urban and Regional Research 25 (2): 227-52.
- Wellman, Barry and Berkowitz, Stephen D. (1988). Social Structures: A Network Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521244412
- Weng, M. (2007). A Multimedia Social-Networking Community for Mobile Devices Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of the Arts/ New York University
- White, Harrison, Scott Boorman and Ronald Breiger. 1976. "Social Structure from Multiple Networks: I Blockmodels of Roles and Positions." American Journal of Sociology 81: 730-80.
External links
- The International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) - professional society of social network analysts, with more than 1,000 members
- Annual International Workshop on Social Network Mining and Analysis SNAKDD - Annual computer science workshop for interdisciplinary studies on social network mining and analysis
- Organizational Network Mapping - SNA applied in business organizations
- Virtual Center for Supernetworks
- VisualComplexity.com - a visual exploration on mapping complicated and complex networks
- Dynamic Centrality in Social Networks
- Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS) at Carnegie Mellon
- NetLab at the University of Toronto, studies the intersection of social, communication, information and computing networks
- Netwiki (wiki page devoted to social networks; maintained at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- Network Science Center at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY
- Social Life of Routers - social network analysis applied to computer systems
- FAS.research - network visualizations produced using social network analysis
- Building networks for learning- A guide to on-line resources on strengthening social networking.
- Program on Networked Governance - Program on Networked Governance, Harvard University