Social Network Analysis: A Handbook
by John Scott

[on the class website temporarily until the publisher sends the books we ordered]

Contents

List of Figures vii

Acknowledgements ix

1 Networks and Relations 1

• Relations and Attributes 2
• An Overview 5

2 The Development of Social Network Analysis 7

• Sociometric Analysis and Graph Theory 8
• Interpersonal Configurations and Cliques 16
• Networks: Total and Partial 27
• The Harvard Breakthrough 33

3 Handling Relational Data 39

• The Organization of Relational Data 39
• The Storage of Relational Data 50
• The Selection of Relational Data 56

4 Lines, Direction and Density 66

• Sociograms and Graph Theory 67
• Density: Ego-centric and Socio-centric 72
• Community Structure and Density 79

5 Centrality and Centralization 85

• Centrality: Local and Global 86
• Centralization and Graph Centres 92
• A Digression on Absolute Density 97
• Bank Centrality in Corporate Networks 99

6 Components, Cores and Cliques 103

• Components, Cycles and Knots 104
• The Contours of Components 111
• Cliques and their Intersections 117
• Components and Citation Circles 124

[Chapters of this book are being placed online until the books themselves arrive at the bookstore.]