The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis

Professor John P Scott, Prof Peter Carrington

ISBN 10: 1847873952 / ISBN 13: 9781847873958

Published by SAGE Publications Ltd, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847873952
• ISBN 13: 9781847873958
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

This sparkling Handbook offers an unrivalled resource for those engaged in the cutting edge field of social network analysis. Systematically, it introduces readers to the key concepts, substantive topics, central methods and prime debates. Among the specific areas covered are: 

• Network theory
• Interdisciplinary applications
• Online networks
• Corporate networks
• Lobbying networks
• Deviant networks
• Measuring devices
• Key Methodologies
• Software applications.

The result is a peerless resource for teachers and students which offers a critical survey of the origins, basic issues and major debates. The Handbook provides a one-stop guide that will be used by readers for decades to come.

About the Author

John Scott is an Honorary Professor at the Universities of Essex, Exeter, and Copenhagen. He was formerly a professor of sociology at the Universities of Essex and Leicester, and pro-vice-chancellor for research at the University of Plymouth. He has been president of the British Sociological Association, Chair of the Sociology Section of the British Academy, and in 2013 was awarded the CBE for Services to Social Science. His work covers theoretical sociology, the history of sociology, elites and social stratification, and social network analysis. His most recent books include British Social Theory: Recovering Lost Traditions before 1950 (SAGE, 2018), Envisioning Sociology. Victor Branford, Patrick Geddes, and the Quest for Social Reconstruction (with Ray Bromley, SUNY Press, 2013), Objectivity and Subjectivity in Social Research (with Gayle Letherby and Malcolm Williams, SAGE, 2011).