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@article{scott:sna, abstract = {This paper reports on the development of social network analysis, tracing its origins in classical sociology and its more recent formulation in social scientific and mathematical work. It is argued that the concept of social network provides a powerful model for social structure, and that a number of important formal methods of social network analysis can be discerned. Social network analysis has been used in studies of kinship structure, social mobility, science citations, contacts among members of deviant groups, corporate power, international trade exploitation, class structure, and many other areas. A review of the formal models proposed in graph theory, multidimensional scaling, and algebraic topology is followed by extended illustrations of social network analysis in the study of community structure and interlocking directorships. 10.1177/0038038588022001007}, author = {Scott, John}, citeulike-article-id = {1561945}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038588022001007}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://soc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/22/1/109}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1177/0038038588022001007}, journal = {Sociology}, keywords = {social-network-analysis}, month = {February}, number = {1}, pages = {109--127}, posted-at = {2009-08-09 07:35:34}, priority = {2}, title = {Social Network Analysis}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038588022001007}, volume = {22}, year = {1988} }

TY - JOUR ID - scott:sna L3 - citeulike-article-id:1561945 N2 - This paper reports on the development of social network analysis, tracing its origins in classical sociology and its more recent formulation in social scientific and mathematical work. It is argued that the concept of social network provides a powerful model for social structure, and that a number of important formal methods of social network analysis can be discerned. Social network analysis has been used in studies of kinship structure, social mobility, science citations, contacts among members of deviant groups, corporate power, international trade exploitation, class structure, and many other areas. A review of the formal models proposed in graph theory, multidimensional scaling, and algebraic topology is followed by extended illustrations of social network analysis in the study of community structure and interlocking directorships. 10.1177/0038038588022001007 IS - 1 JF - Sociology EP - 127 TI - Social Network Analysis VL - 22 SP - 109 KW - social-network-analysis AU - Scott, John PY - 1988/February/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038588022001007 ER -