| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 194 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Representation and conceptualization -- Small worlds -- Searching and fat tails -- Communities : detection, conflict, cohesion, and culture -- Social inequality : prestige, power, brokerage, and roles -- Organizations as networks -- Methods : data and software |
| Summary |
The first textbook to combines new with still-valuable older methods and theories. Innovative pedagogy explains mathematical models and concepts, and examples ranging from anthropology to organizational sociology and business studies will ensure wide applicability. An easy to use software tool, free of charge and open source, is appended on the supporting website that will enable readers to depict and analyze networks of their interest |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-181) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Social networks.
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Social Support
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
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Social networks
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0203930460 |
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9780203930465 |
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9781134048205 |
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1134048203 |
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