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Doing social network research : network-based research design for social scientists / Garry Robins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robins, Garry, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social networks--Research--Methodology.
- Social networks.
- Social sciences--Network analysis.
- Social sciences.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 261 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Network-based research design for social scientists
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles : Sage Publications Ltd, 2015.
- Summary:
- "With straightforward guidance on research design and data collection, as well as social network analysis, this book takes you start-to-finish through the whole process of doing network research."--Back cover.
- Contents:
- The difference with social network research
- Fundamental network concepts and ideas
- Thinking about networks: Research quesstions and study design
- Social systems and data structures: Relational ties and actor attributes
- Network observation and measurment
- The empirical context of network data collection
- Ethical issues for social network research
- Network visualization: What it can and cannot do
- A review of social network analytic methods
- Drawing conclusions: Inference, generalization, causality and other weighty matters.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-254) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781446276136
- 1446276139
- 9781446276129
- 1446276120
- OCLC:
- 893453800
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