ABSTRACTS

CONNECTIONS 20(1):78-85
©1997 INSNA

 

Sunbelt '97 Conference
Feb 13-17. San Diego, CA

 

Aguilera, R. V. (Harvard University). "How do Historical Institutional Settings Shape Intercorporate Relations?"

Andreescu, Viviana, Thomas J. Keil, and J. Allen Whitt (University of Louisville). "Changes in Patterns of Trade Among Postcommunist Countries."

Angell, Beth and Mary Ann Test (University of Wisconsin-Madison). "Gender Differences in Social Networks, Satisfaction with Social Relationships, and Loneliness Among Young Adults with Schizophrenia."

Arrow, Holly. (University of Oregon). "New, Old, and Slightly Used: Effects of Gender and Tenure on Small Group Influence Patterns."

Aunger, Robert (King's College, University of Cambridge). "The Structure of Cultural Transmission: Food Taboos in Zaire."

Baldwin, Julie, Carol Maxwell, Albert Pach, Richard Rothenberg, Claire Sterk, Robert Trotter (Emory University School of Medicine). "Rural and Urban Groups at Risk for HIV: Methods for Social Network Ascertainment and Preliminary Results."

Baldwin, Julie, Carol Maxwell, Albert Pach, Richard Rothenberg, Claire Sterk, Robert Trotter (Emory University School of Medicine). "The Use of Ethnographic and Social Network Information to Cope with Logistical Problems in Ascertaining Networks of Drug Using Populations."

Banas, J. T., S. A. Jorgensen, and R. K. Leik. (University of Minnesota.) "The Network Structure of Programs in a Research Organization."

Bandyopadhyay, Suraj and Chandralekha Duttagupta (Indian Statistical Institute). "Social Network Analysis for Health System Planning in West Bengal, India."

Batagelj, V. F. Anuska (University of Ljubljana), and P. Doreian (University of Pittsburgh). "Fitting Pre-Specified Blockmodels."

Batagelj, Vladimir and Andrej Mrvar (University of Ljubljana). "A Package for Analyzing Large Networks."

Beata, David (ELTE Szociologiai es Szocialpolitickai Intezet, Butapest, Hungary). "The Rate of Kin and Non-kin Relations in A Hungarian Social Network Research."

Benassi, M. (University of Trento), and A. Greve (The Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration.) "GESTO - A Network Company?"

Berkowitz, S. D. (University of Vermont) Douglas R. White, and William Fitzgerald. "Measuring Integration and Concentration in the Canadian Economy, 1972 and 1987: Formal Methods and Empirical Demonstration."

Bernard, Robert N., Radoslaw A. Zapert, George M. Janes, Wei Lin, and K. Winslow Farrell, Jr. (Emergent Solutions Group, Coopers and Lybrand Consulting). "Speed of Information Contagion in a Dynamic Network."

Bien, W., J. Marbach and D. Bender. "Stability and Change of Family Network Configuration over the Family Life Cycle."

Bienenstock, Elisa Jane, and Jeffrey C. Johnson (East Carolina University). "Exchange in the Field."

Bienenstock, Elisa Jayne and Pamela Paxton (Stanford University). "Empirically Defining Social Capital."

Bonacich, Phillip (University of California at Los Angeles). "Time as a Variable in Centrality Analysis."

Borgatti, S. P. (Boston College), and M. G. Everett. (University of Greenwich.) "Core/Periphery Partitioning."

Borgatti, Stephen P. (Boston College), Martin G. Everett (University of Greenwich) and Linton C. Freeman (University of California at Irvine). "UCINET for Windows Demonstration."

Boyd, J. P. (University of California at Irvine), and K. J. Jonas. (Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen.) "A Permutation Test for Regular Equivalence: 0-blocks Pass, regular-blocks Fail."

Brazill, T. J. (University of California, Irvine.) "The Comparison of Models Underlying Social Proximity Data, Ii."

Brazill, Timothy J. (University of California, Irvine). "The Comparison Models Underlying Social Proximity Data, II."

Brewer, D. D. (University of Washington, USA), and C. M. Webster. (University of Queensland, Australia.) "Recall and Recognition of Friends by Residents of a University Dormitory."

Brewer, Devon D. (University of Washington, USA), Giovani Rinaldi (Instituto di Analisi de Sistemi ed Informatica del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy), Andrei Mogoutov (Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France) and Thomas W. Valente (Johns Hopkins University, USA). "Improved Measurement of and New Data on Associative Patterns in the Recall of Persons."

Burris, Val, Emery Smith and Ann Strahm (University of Oregon). "Neo-Nazi Networks on the Internet."

Butler, Brian S. (Carnegie Mellon University). "The Dynamics of Cyberspace: An Interdependent Public Goods Model of Electronic Group Development."

Caidi, Nadia and Leah A. Lievrouw (University of California). "Momentum, Resistance and the Information Superhighway: A Cross-National Study Using Socio-Technical Analysis.""

Calloway, Michael O., Joseph P. Morrissey, Michael Ullman (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and John M. Borland (University of Alabama). "Missing Responses in Organizational Network Data: Lessons from the Field."

Carley, C., C. Topper, and D. Gant. (Carnegie-Mellon University.) "Emergent Networked Organizations."

Casasola, Silvia P. (University of California at Irvine). "Marriages and Alliances among Conquistadores and Encomenderos of the Kingdom of Guatemala, 1524-1720."

Casciaro, Tiziana (Department of Social and Decision Scineces, Carnegie-Mellon University). "Seeing Things Clearly: Social Structure, Personality, and Cognitive Accuracy in Social Network Perception."

Chase-Borgatti, Roberta (University of South Carolina) "Research on Language and Social Networks: An Overview."

Collins, Randall (University of California, Riverside). "Exploring the Scientific Revolution by Comparing Intellectual Networks."

Contractor, Noshir S. (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), Peter R. Monge, Suzanne Rumsey and Janet Fulk (University of Southern California). "Network Evolution of a Virtual Organization."

Cook, C. (Harvard University.) "Controlling Uncertainty through Close Ties with Subcontractors."

Danowski, James A. (University of Illinois at Chicago). "Language of Spirituality in Ego-Centric Communication Networks."

De Nooy, Wouter. (Erasmus University, Rotterdam). "Cycles and Paths, Not Triads: Balance Theoretic Models and Incomplete Signed Graphs."

Doerfel, Marya L (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) and George A. Barnett (University of New York at Buffalo). "A Comparison of the Semantic and Affiliation Networks of the International Communication Association."

Doksum, Theresa (The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions). "Communication Within High Risk Families About Genetic Risk and Cancer Communication within High Risk Families About Genetic Risk and Cancer Testing for Cystic Fibrosis."

Dow, Malcom M. (Northwestern University) and Roger Th. A. J. Leenders (University of Groningen). "The Effects of Measurement Error on Estimation Procedures for Network Autocorrelation Models."

Durrington, Vance A. (Texas Tech University), Thomas W. Valente (Johns Hopkins University), and Judith L. Repman (Texas Tech University). "Diffusion networks Methodology Assessment and an Empirical Test of Theory."

Eckert, Penelope (Stanford University and Institute for Research on Learning). "Urban Cruising and Linguistic Influence among Detroit Area Adolescents."

El-Bassel, Nabia and Duan-Rung Diane Chen (School of Social Work, Columbia University). "Social Support Mobilization Among Female Drug Addicts."

Erikson, Bonnie H. (University of Toronto). "Network Diversity and Trade."

Everett, M. G. (University of Greenwich), and S. P. Borgatti (Boston College). "Graph Theoretic Models of Core/Periphery Structures."

Falkowski, Gerald R. (IBM Consulting Group). "Understanding the Heart and Pulse of an Organization."

Faust, Katherine (University of South Carolina), Barbara Entwise, Ronald R. Rindfuss, and Stephen J. Walsh (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). "Spatial Arrangement of Social and Economic Networks of Villages in Nang Rong, Thailand."

Faust, Katherine and John Skvoretz (University of South Carolina). "Logit Models for Affiliation Networks."

Feld, Scott L. William C. Carter (Louisiana State University). "Tie Strength and Individual Differences."

Fonti, F. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.) "Social Structure and Economic Action: The Effects of Network Evolution On Organizational Performance."

Fran, Kenneth A. (Michigan State University) and Jeff Yasumoto (University of Chicago). "Embedded in What?: Variations in Social Capital according to Social Structure."

Frank, Kenneth A., and Kyle Fahrbach (Michigan State University). "Exploring Interrelated Structures: A System of Longitudinal Models of Selection and Interpersonal Influence in a Social Network."

Freeman, Lin. "Using Tools from Computational Graph Theory and Molecular Modeling to Visualize Social Networks: A Practicum."

Fruzsina, Albert (ELTE Institute of Sociology and Social Policy, Budapest, Hungary). "Supportive Networks in Central-Eastern Europe."

Gant, D. B. (Carnegie Mellon University.) "Understanding Emergent Patterns of Interorganizational Relationships on the WWW: A Case Study in Disaster Response."

Gibson, David (Columbia University and Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences). "Enacting Structure in Serial-Event Systems."

Gil-Mendieta, Jorge and Samuel Schmidt. "The Mexican Network of Power, An Analysis through Time."

Gittell, Jody Hoffer (Harvard Business School) and Leigh M. Weiss (Harvard University). "A Dynamic Approach to Coordination: Linking Intra and Interorganizational Networks."

Glanville, Jennifer L. and Jennifer A. Stoloff (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). "Social Network Structure and AFDC Receipt."

Grannis, Rick (University of California, Irvine). "The Importance of Trivial Streets: Pedestrian-Based Communities, Tertiary Street Networks, and Residential Segregation."

Granovetter, Mark (Stanford University). "Constructing Networks from Archival Data: The Case of the American Electricity Industry, 1880-1920."

Gronmo, Sigmund and Baard Liabo (University of Bergan, Norway). "Corporate-Governmental Networks in Norway 1985-1990."

Guilarte, Miguel (The Fielding Institute). "Perceptual Competitive Fields and Strategic Action."

Gulati, Ranjay (Northwestern University) and Martin Gargiulo (INSEAD). "Where Do Networks Come From?"

Harary, Frank (New Mexico State University). "Group Problem Solving and the Email Gossip Number."

Hedstrom, Peter, Rickard Sandell, and Lotta Stern (Skockholms University). "Spatial Diffusion and Agitation: AN Analysis of the Spread and Growth of the Swedish Social Democratic Party."

Heiser, Willem J. (Leiden University). "A Weighted Least Squares Method for Fitting Feature Graphs to Proximity Data."

Higgins, Monica and David Thomas (Harvard University). "How the Composition of an Individual's Set of Helping Relationships Affects Career Outcomes."

Hiramatsu, Hiroshi (Korean University, Kobe, Japan), Frans N. Stokman and Evelien P. H. Zeggelink (University of Groningen). "The Effect of Partial Information and Influence on Friendship Network Structures."

Holschuh, Jane (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Bernice A. Pescosolido (Indiana University, Bloomington), Eric R. Wright (Indiana University, Indianapolis). "Social Ties and Network Range Among Persons With Severe Mental Illness."

Hsia, Ti-Lien (University of California at Irvine). "A Social Network Comparison of Juvenile Delinquent and General High School Student Subgroup Formation."

Hummon, Norman P. and Patrick Doreian (University of Pittsburgh). "Proposal for WWW Social Network Archive Site."

Johnson, Jeffrey (ECU), James Boster (UCI), Lawrence Palinkas (UCSD). "Social Networks and Stress at the South Pole."

Jolly, Ann. "Sexual Networks: A Method for Defining Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Core Group Membership?"

Jones, Brian J. (Villanova University). "Social Networks and Drug Treatment Effectiveness: The Knucklehead Effect."

Jones, C., and K. Walsh. (Boston College.) "Principles for Interfirm Partnering: How Homophily and Multiplexity Influence Project Team Formation."

Kadushin, Charles (City University of New York), Peter D. Killworth, James Rennell (Southampton Oceanography Centre), H. Russell Bernard (University of Florida), and Andrew Beveridge (Queens College and the Graduate Center City University of New York). "Drugs, Booze, Murder, Assault, Fatal Crashes and the Small World, Part 2."

Khurana, R. (Harvard University.) "Director Interlocks and Outsider CEO Selection."

Kleit, Rachel Garshick (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). "Egocentric Neighborhood Networks and Mixed-Income Housing."

Klovdahl, Alden S. (The Australian National University). "The Core Group Concept in Epidemiology and Public Health: A Reconsideration."

Klovdahl, Alden S., Edward A. Graviss, Michael M. Ross, Afshin Yaganehdoost, Gerald Adams, and James M. Musser (Australian National University). "Tuberculosis Spread in Houston Texas: Combining Social Network Methods and DNA Fingerprinting."

Knowlton, Amy (The Johns Hopkins University). "Personal Network Correlates of Depressive Symptoms."

Koehly, Laura (University of Texas). "Statistical Modeling of Structure for Cognitive Social Networks."

Krebs, Valdis E. (Principal Krebs & Associates). "Network Analysis in Industry."

Krempel, Lothar (Max Plank Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany). "Globalization and the International Division of Labor: Visualization and Evidence from World Trade Passenger Cars."

Krikorian, Dean H. (Michigan State University), Mayra L. Doerfel (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), and Kathy A. Kellermann (University of California, Santa Barbara). "Spam Identification in Electronic Newsgroups: A Semantic Network Analysis."

Kuwait, Jennafer. "A Case Study of a Network Analysis Dissertation: Bridging Theory and Research."

Lane, Lisa Ann (University of Chicago) "The Sociolinguistics of Change: Examining a Local Linguistic Community's Internal Homo and Heterogeneity."

Latkin, Carl A. (The John Hopkins University). "Personal Network Differences among Current and Former Injection Drug Users."

Laumann, Ed. "Social, Attitudinal and Behavioral Determinants of Sexually Transmitted Infections: In Search of the Core."

Lazega, E. (University of Paris at Versailles and LASMAS-CNRS.) "Multiplex Ties, Generalized Exchange, and Cooperation among Peers."

Leazer, Gregory H. "Examining Textual Associations Using Network Analysis."

Levy-Storm, Lené and Steven P. Wallace (University of California, Los Angeles). "The Structure and Functions of Cultural Ties: Health Communication Networks Among Older Migrant Samoan Women in Los Angeles County."

Lomi, Alessandro (University of Bologna). "Hierarchies in Markets and the Network Structure of Organizational Communities."

Lomnitz, Larissa and Jorge Gil-Mendieta (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico). "Vertical and Horizontal Relations in an Experimental Research Institute in Mexico."

Macy, Michael (Cornell University) and Andreas Flache (University of Bayreuth). "Self-Organizing Social Networks and Social Dilemmas."

Maryanski, A. (UC Riverside). "The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life: A Network Approach."

McCarty, Christopher (University of Florida), Peter Killworth (University of Cambridge), and H. Russell Bernard (University of Florida). "A Comparison of Two Methods of Estimating Personal Network Size and Their Application in the Estimation of Uncountable Populations."

McRae, Christine (The Johns Hopkins University). "Social Isolation Among Intravenous Drug Users in Baltimore."

Mische, Ann (New School for Social Research, New York). "Political Communication Across Brazilian Youth Networks."

Morris, Alan (University of California at Irvine). "Cognitive Social Structure Accuracy and Managerial Effectiveness."

Morris, Martina (Pennsylvania State University). "Core Groups, Networks and Heterogeneity: Lessons from Empirical Studies of the Sexual Transmission of HIV."

Moseley, Kera, Daniel Rosenberg, and Carl Kendall (Tulane University). "Risk Factors and Network Attributes for Syphilis in Baton Rouge, Louisiana."

Neaigus, A., S. R. Friedman, B. Jose, R. Curtis, M. Goldstein, G. Ildefonso (National Development and Research Institutes, Inc., New York, NY) and D. C. DesJarlais (N. D. R. I. and Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY). "The Relationship of Drug Injectors' Networks and Drug Economy Roles to the Advocacy of the Use of Bleach to Clean Used Syringes."

Nichols, Patricia. (San Jose State University) "Language Contact in Early South Carolina: A Case Study of Historical Social Networks."

Oliver, A. L. (Hebrew University), and M. Ebers. (University of Augsburg.) "Structuring Conceptual Fields by Mapping Sentences and Network Analysis: An Example of Interorganizational Networks."

Orr, Shepley W. (Balliol College, Oxford and Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences). "Networks as Moral Communities."

Padgett, John. "Banking, Family, and Politics in Renaissance Florence."

Pattison, Philippa (University of Melbourne). "Statistical Models for Multiple Social Networks."

Paulson, Robert I., Ronald F. Kinney, and Debra J. Elliot (Portland State University). "Does a Coordinating Agency Make a Difference in a Network of Care?: Comparing Responses from Multiple Informants in the Same Network Organizations."

Popielarz, Pamela A. (University of Illinois at Chicago). "The Effects of Heterogeneity within Opportunity Structures on Cross-Category Social Network Ties."

Reagans, Ray Eugene (University of Chicago). "Generating and Sustaining Support Networks for Students to Excel."

Rhodes, Larry and Dennis Sandow (University of Oregon). "A Case Study Examining Autopoietic Workplace Support Networks: Implications for Publicly Funded Professional Care Systems."

Rice, Ronald E., Lori Collins-Jarvis, and Sharon Zydney-Walker (Rutgers University). "Who Ya Gonna Call? Social Structural and Individual Influences on Information Technology Helping Relations."

Richards, Bill, and Andrew Seary (Simon Fraser University). "Introduction to Eigen Analysis of Networks."

Roberts, John M., Jr. (University of New Mexico). "Correspondence Analysis and Related Techniques for Sociomatrices: Do They 'Work' in Practice?"

Robins, Garry (University of Melbourne). "p* Models of Social Influence."

Ross, Belinda (S&EG Diversity Office) and Tyronne Harvey (UCLA). "Measuring Organization Diversity through Social Networks."

Rothenberg, Richard (Emory University School of Medicine), C. Klerk, K. Toomey, D. Johnsonm, and M. Schrader. "Using Social Network and Ethnographic Tools to Evaluate Syphilis Transmission: An Outbreak With Some Unusual Features."

Rulke, D. L., and J. Galaskiewicz. (University of Minnesota.) "Structural Hole and Selection Strategy Effects on Group Performance."

Ryan, Gery (Fieldwork and Quantitative Data Laboratory). "How Does Network Size and Composition Influence Laypeople's Treatment Choices?: A Cameroon Case Study."

Salisbury, Joseph G. T. and George A. Barnett. "A Network Analysis of International Monetary Flows."

Sandow, Dennis and Larry Rhodes (University of Oregon). "Using Network Analysis to Reveal Autopoietic Workplace Systems."

Schott, Thomas (University of Pittsburgh). "The Global Network of Authorities Making "National" Science Policy."

Seary, Andrew and Bill Richards (Simon Fraser University). "The Physics of Networks."

Sedo, DeNel and Bill Richards (Simon Fraser University). "The Network Approach: A Path to Improved Healthcare."

Sinclair, Philip and Martin Everett (University of Greenwich, England). "Some Results and Problems in Centrality and Centralization."

Skyhorse, Pat (University of California at Irvine). "Adoption as a Strategy on a Chuukese Atoll."

Smith, Sherry P. (University of South Carolina). "Composition and Content of Adolescents' Social Ties: Does Family Structure Matter?"

Snijders, Tom A. B. (University of Groningen). "Change Rates in Dynamic Network Models."

Sobrero, Maurizio (University of Bologna). "Network Auto-Correlation Models of Unit's Performance In Innovative Process."

Strang, David (Cornell University). "Network Models for Diffusion."

Su, S. Susan. (University of Chicago). "A Prospective Study of Adolescent Friendship Network and Drug Use."

Szmatka, Jacek (Jagiellonian University, Cracow Poland and University of South Carolina). "Exclusion, Inclusion, and Null Connection in Conflict Networks: An Extension of Elementary Theory to Conflict Networks."

Tam, Tony (Academia Sinca, Taipei, Taiwan). "Goodwill Begets Goodwill: A Theory of Strategic Trust Relations."

Valente, Thomas W., Robert K. Foreman, David Vlahov, and Ben Junge (The Johns Hopkins University). "Needle Networking: An Analysis of IDU Networks as Revealed by Needle Exchange Data."

Valverde, Narda Alcantra (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico). "Middle Class Personal Networks in Mexico City."

Vida, Ronald (Simon Fraser University). "Social Networks of Children in the Classroom and Their Effects on Perception, Interpretation, Reconstruction and Retention of TV Material."

Wasserman, Stanley (University of Illinois). "Introduction to p*."

Watkins, Susan C. (University of Pennsylvania) and Thomas W. Valente (The Johns Hopkins University). "Conversations about Contraception: The Role of Personal Networks in Explaining Fertility Regulation Behavior."

Weinberg, Davida J. (University of South Carolina). "Group and Third-Person Effects on Dyadic Favor-Exchange."

Wellman, Bev. (University of Toronto). "Influence of Social Relations on the Decision to Consult Medical and Alternative Health Care Practitioners in a Canadian Urban Centre."

White, Harrison C. (Columbia University). "Markets as Networks."

Whitt, J. A. (University of Louisville), and G. Moore. (State University of New York at Albany). "Network Ties between National Charities and Large Corporations: The Gender of Shared Directors and the Geographic Distribution of Linked Organizations."

Willer, David, Brent Simpson, and Kimberley Pennell (University of South Carolina). "Network Breaks."

Willert, Karen (University of South Carolina). "A Network Study of Contemporary American Weddings."

Wright, Eric R. (Indiana University, Indianapolis) and Bernice Pescosolido (University, Bloomington). "The Shifting Social Context of Caregiving in Mental Illness."

Yamagata, Hisashi, Kathleen M. Carley, and David Krackhardt (Carnegie Mellon University). "Network Evolution: An Empirical Analysis and Comparison of Models."

Zeggelink, Evelien and Frans Stokman (University of Groningen). "Effects on and of the Number of Relationships in a 'Self-Organizing' Friendship Network."