Social Network Analysis : A Handbook

List of Figures vii Preface to the Second Edition ix Networks and Relations 1(6) Relations and Attributes 2(3) An Overview 5(2) The Development of Social Network Analysis 7(31) Sociometric Analysis and Graph Theory 8(8) Interpersonal Configurations and Cliques 16(10) Networks: Total and Partial 26(7) The Harvard Breakthrough 33(5) Handling Relational Data 38(25) The Organization of Relational Data 38(11) The Storage of Relational Data 49(4) The Selection of Relational Data 53(10) Points, Lines and Density 63(19) Sociograms and Graph Theory 64(5) Density: Ego-centric and Socio-centric 69(7) Community Structure and Density 76(6) Centrality and Centralization 82(18) Centrality: Local and Global 83(6) Centralization and Graph Centres 89(5) A Digression on Absolute Density 94(2) Bank Centrality in Corporate Networks 96(4) Components, Cores and Cliques 100(23) Components, Cycles and Knots 101(7) The Contours of Components 108(6) Cliques and their Intersections 114(7) Components and Citation Circles 121(2) Positions, Roles and Clusters 123(23) The Structural Equivalence of Points 124(2) Clusters: Agglomerative and Divisive 126(5) Block Models: CONCOR and BURT 131(8) Towards Regular Structural Equivalence 139(3) Interlocks and Participations 142(4) Dimensions and Displays 146(29) Distance, Space and Metrics 148(5) Parincipal Components and Factors 153(4) Non-metric Methods 157(7) Advances in Network Visualization 164(1) Elites, Communities and Influence 165(10) Appendix Social Network Packages 175(6) Notes 181(12) Bibliography 193(12) Index 205