QTM 385 Lecture 1: introduction
16 Jan 2019
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Borgatti 2009: network analysis in the social sciences: history, sociometry: technique for eliciting and graphically representing individuals" subjective feelings toward one another, six degrees of separation: how many acquaintances req to link two random ppl from a population. Interview respondents (egos) to id ppl (alters) with whom they ahd various kinds of relationships. Urbanism reduced network density: 3 lines of inquiry. Conceptual level: societies seen not as monolithic entities but rather as a. "pattern/network of relationships obtaining b/w actors in their capacity of playing. Rep kinship systems as relational algebras consisting of a small set of generating relations tgt with binary composition operations to construct derived relations such as. "general theory of social capital: social network theory, types of ties. Dyadic relations: similarities, social relations, interactions, and flows. ** individual"s social environment for explanations: research question. Node"s position in a network determines in part the opportunities and constraints that it encounters.
