|
| |
|
Ego Network
Analysis
This should be a whole course. We discuss the range of techniques used to
analyze ego network data, all of which can be thought of as yielding some form
of actor-level social capital.
Topics
Readings
-
Burt, R. The social structure of social capital. [pdf]
-
Lin, N. Building a network theory of social capital. [html]
-
Borgatti. 1997. Structural holes: Unpacking
Burt's redundancy measures. Connections 20(1) [html]
-
Borgatti, Jones and Everett. 1998. Network measures of social capital.
Connections 21(2) [html]
- Gould, R. &
Fernandez, R. 1989. Structures of mediation: A formal approach to
brokerage in transaction networks. Sociological Methodology. 19:
89-126.
[^pdf]
- Krackhardt, D. & Stern,
R.1988. Informal networks and organizational crises. Social Psychology
Quarterly 51(2): 123-140. [pdf]
- Marsden, P.V. 1988. Homogeneity in confiding
relations. Social Networks 10: 57-76. [pdf]
Additional Readings
|
|
Slides
Exercises
Download
Handout
- A socnet discussion on the origins of the
term "social capital" [html]
|
|
Additional
- Bernard, H. R., E.C. Johnsen, P.D. Killworth, C. McCarty, G.A. Shelley,
& S. Robinson (1990) Comparing four different methods for measuring personal
social networks. Social Networks, 12 : 179-216.
- Bernard, H. R., E.C. Johnsen, P.D. Killworth, & S. Robinson (1989)
Estimating the size of an average personal network and of an event
subpopulation. In Kochen, M., ed, The Small World (: 159-175). New Jersey :
Ablex.
- Boissevain, Jeremy (1973) An exploration of two first-order zones. In
Boissevain, J. & J.C. Mitchell, eds, Network Analysis: Studies in Human
Interaction. The Hague : Mouton.
- Bott, Elizabeth (1957) Family and Social Network. London : Tavistock
- Cubbit, T. (1973) Network density among urban families. In Boissevain,
J. and J.C. Mitchell, eds, Network Analysis: Studies in Human Interaction.
The Hague : Mouton
- Fischer, Claude S. (1982) To Dwell Among Friends: Personal Networks in
Town and City. Chicago : University of Chicago
|
