1st Edition

Social Networks Critical Concepts in Sociology

Edited By John Scott
1816 Pages
by Routledge

Social networks as a concept was developed through social psychological work on the communication and leadership structures of small groups, and in sociological and anthropological work on kinship and community relations. From the 1960s, this idea came to be extended to a wider range of social relations (especially economic and political relations) through the formulation of mathematical models of... Read more
Part I: Conceptualizing Social Networks
Part II: Topics and Developments in Graph Theory
Part III: Further Mathematical Models for Networks
Part IV: Applications: Family and Community
Part V: Applications: Corporate Power and Economic Structures
Part VI: Applications: Political, Protest, and Policy Networks
Part VII: Aplications: Knowledge, Reputation, and Diffusion

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Edited by John Scott