Network Analysis: Some Basic Principles

Network analysis is a fundamental approach to the study of social structure. This chapter traces its development, distinguishing characteristics, and analytic principles. It emphasizes the intellectual unity of three research traditions: the anthropological concept of the social network, the sociological conception of social structure as social network, and structural explanations of political processes. Network analysts criticize the normative, categorical, dyadic, and bounded-group emphases prevalent in many sociological analyses. They claim that the most direct way to study a social system is to analyze the pattern of ties linking its members. By analyzing complex hierarchical structures of asymmetric ties, they study power, stratification, and structural change.

@article{ wellman_network_1983,
  title = {Network {Analysis}: {Some} {Basic} {Principles}},
  volume = {1},
  copyright = {Copyright © 1983 Wiley},
  issn = {07352751},
  url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/202050},
  doi = {10.2307/202050},
  abstract = {Network analysis is a fundamental approach to the study of social structure. This chapter traces its development, distinguishing characteristics, and analytic principles. It emphasizes the intellectual unity of three research traditions: the anthropological concept of the social network, the sociological conception of social structure as social network, and structural explanations of political processes. Network analysts criticize the normative, categorical, dyadic, and bounded-group emphases prevalent in many sociological analyses. They claim that the most direct way to study a social system is to analyze the pattern of ties linking its members. By analyzing complex hierarchical structures of asymmetric ties, they study power, stratification, and structural change.},
  number = {ArticleType: research-article / Full publication date: 1983 / Copyright © 1983 Wiley},
  journal = {Sociological Theory},
  author = {Wellman, Barry},
  month = {January},
  year = {1983},
  note = {00649},
  pages = {155--200}
}

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