Stanley Wasserman & Joseph Galaskiewicz 
Advances in Social Network Analysis 
Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

Social network analysis, a method for analyzing relationships between social entities, has expanded over the last decade as new research has been done in this area. How can these new developments be applied effectively in the behavioral and social sciences disciplines? In Advances in Social Network Analysis, a team of leading methodologists in network analysis addresses this issue. They explore such topics as ways to specify the network contents to be studied, how to select the method for representing network structures, how social network analysis has been used to study interorganizational relations via the resource dependence model, how to use a contact matrix for studying the spread of disease in epidemiology, and how cohesion and structural equivalence network theories relate to studying social influence. It also offers statistical models for social support networks. Advances in Social Network Analysis is useful for researchers involved in general research methods and qualitative methods, and who are interested in psychology and sociology.

Table of Content

Introduction – Joseph Galaskiewicz and Stanley Wasserman

Advances in the Social and Behavioral Sciences from Social Network Analysis

PART ONE: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND DIFFUSION

Network Studies of Social Influence – Peter V Marsden and Noah E Friedkin

Epidemiology and Social Networks – Martina Morris

Modeling Structured Diffusion

Statistical Models for Social Support Networks – Michael E Walker, Stanley Wasserman and Barry Wellman

Social Cognition in Context – Philippa Pattison

Some Applications of Social Network Analysis

PART TWO: ANTHROPOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION

Anthropological Contributions to the Study of Social Networks – Jeffrey C Johnson

A Review

Primate Social Networks – Donald Stone Sade and Malcolm M Dow

Network Analysis and Computer-Mediated Communication Systems – Ronald E Rice

PART THREE: POLITICS AND ORGANIZATIONS

Intraorganizational Networks – David Krackhardt and Daniel J Brass

The Micro Side

Networks of Interorganizational Relations – Mark S Mizruchi and Joseph Galaskiewicz

Marketing and Social Networks – Phipps Arabie and Yoram Wind

Networks of Elite Structure and Decision Making – David Knoke