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Social networks : an introduction / Jeroen Bruggeman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bruggeman, Jeroen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social networks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Social Networks: An Introduction is the first textbook that combines new with still-valuable older methods and theories. Designed to be a core text for graduate (and some undergraduate) courses in a variety of disciplines it is well-suited for everybody who makes a first encounter with the field of social networks, both academics and practitioners. This book includes reviews, study questions and text boxes as well as using innovative pedagogy to explain mathematical models and concepts. Examples ranging from anthropology to organizational sociology and business studie
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Representation and conceptualization
- Small worlds
- Searching and fat tails
- Communities : detection, conflict, cohesion, and culture
- Social inequality : prestige, power, brokerage, and roles
- Organizations as networks
- Methods : data and software.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-04819-X
- 0-203-93046-0
- 1-134-04820-3
- 9780203930465
- OCLC:
- 846495674
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