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Survey Data
Collection
A discussion of network data collection, with an emphasis on surveys.
Topics
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Ego network surveys
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Designing full network surveys
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Providing value to respondents
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Ethical issues
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The construction of a
dataset
Readings
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Borgatti, S.P. and Molina, J-L. 2003. Ethical and
strategic issues in organizational network analysis. Journal of
Applied Behavioral Science. 39(3): 337-350.
[pdf]
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Borgatti, S.P. and Molina, J.L. 2005. Toward ethical
guidelines for network research in organizations. Social
Networks. 27(2): 107-117 [pdf]
- Marsden, P.V. 1990.
Network data and measurement. Annual Review of Sociology
16:435-63. [pdf
link]
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Freeman, L.C., Romney, A.K., &
Freeman, S. 1987. Cognitive structure and informant accuracy. American
Anthropologist 89:310-325 [^pdf]
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Krackhardt, D. 1987. Cognitive
social structures. Social Networks 9:109-134 [pdf]
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Tutorials
Slides
Handouts
Ginny's labs
Links
Sample Surveys
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Bibliography
Missing Data
- Borgatti, S.P., Carley, K., and Krackhardt, D. 2006. Robustness of
Centrality Measures under Conditions of Imperfect Data. Social Networks
28: 124–136. [pdf]
- Gueorgi Kossinets, Effects of missing data in social networks, Social
Networks Volume 28, Issue 3, , July 2006, Pages 247-268.[^pdf]
- Ward, M.D., Hoff, P.D., and Lofdahl, C.L. (2003) "Identifying
International Networks: Latent Spaces and Imputation," in Dynamic Social
Network Modeling and Analysis: Workshop Summary and Papers , 345-359, Ronald
Breiger, Kathleen Carley, and Philippa Pattison, eds., Washington, D.C., The
National Academies Press. [pdf]
BKS Informant Accuracy stream
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Killworth, Peter D. & Russell Bernard (1976) Informant accuracy in
social network data. Human Organization, 35 : 269-286.
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Bernard, H. R. &.D. Killworth (1977) Informant accuracy in social
network data II. Human Communications Research, 4 : 3-18.
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Killworth, Peter D. & Russell Bernard (1979) Informant accuracy in
social network data III: A comparison of triadic structure in behavioural and
cognitive data. Social Networks, 2 : 10-46.
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Bernard, H. R., D. Killworth, & L. Sailer (1980) Informant accuracy in
social network data IV: A comparison of clique-level structure in behavioral
and cognitive network data. Social Networks, 2 : 191-218.
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"A Note on Inferences Regarding Network Subgroups." Ronald S.
Burt and Wm M. Bittner; Social Networks, 1981, 3(1),
pp. 71-88. [pdf]
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Bernard, H.R., Killworth, P. & Sailer, L. 1981. Summary of research on
informant accuracy in network data, and on the reverse small world problem.
Connections 4(2):11-25 [pdf
of whole issue]
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Romney and
Faust, 1982. A.K. Romney and K. Faust , Predicting the structure of a
communications network from recalled data. Social Networks 4
(1982), pp. 285–304. [pdf
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Bernard, H. R., D. Killworth, & L. Sailer (1982) Informant accuracy in
social network data V: An experimental attempt to predict actual
communication from recall data. Social Science Research, 11 : 30-66.
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Romney, A. Kimball and Susan Weller. 1984. Predicting informant accuracy
from patterns of recall among individuals. Social Networks, 6:59 77.
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Bernard, H. R., D. Killworth, D. Kronenfeld & L. Sailer (1985) On the
validity of retrospective data: The problem of informant accuracy. Annual
Review of Anthropology, 13: 495-517. Palo Alto : Stanford University Press
Cognitive Social Structures
- Krackhardt, D. 1987. Cognitive
social structures. Social Networks 9:109-134 [pdf]
- Kilduff, Martin, and David Krackhardt 1994 * "Bringing the Individual
Back In: A Structural Analysis of the Internal Market for Reputation in
Organizations." Academy of Management Journal, 37: 87-108. [pdf]
- Ece Kumbasar; A. Kimball Romney; William H. Batchelder The American
Journal of Sociology, Vol. 100, No. 2. (Sep., 1994), pp. 477-505 [^pdf]
- J.C. Johnson and M.K. Orbach.
"Perceiving the Political Landscape: Ego Biases in Cognitive Political
Networks". Social Networks 24 (2002) 291-310.
Sampling
- Frank, O. (2005). Network sampling and model
fitting. In P. J.Carrington, J. Scott, & S. Wasserman (Eds.), Models and
methodsin social network analysis (pp. 31–56) New York: CambridgeUniversity
Press.
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.
- Brewer and Webster. 1999. Forgetting of friends and its effects on
measuring friendship networks. Social Networks 21: 361-373.
- DeSoto, Clinton B. 1960 "Learning a social structure." Journal of
Abnormal and Social Psychology, 60: 417 421.
- Lauman, Edward 0., Peter V. Marsden, and David Prensky 1983 "The
boundary specification problem in network analysis." In Ronald S. Burt and
Michael J. Miner (eds.), Applied Network Analysis: A Methodological
Introduction: 18 34. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
- Peter V. Marsden, “Recent Developments in Network Measurement,” in P.J.
Carrington, J. Scott, and S. Wasserman (eds.), Models and Methods in Social
Network Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 2005), 8-30.
- Shweder, R.A. and R.G. D'Andrade. 1980. "The systematic distortion
hypothesis." New Directions for Methodology of Social and Behavioral
Science 4: 37-58 [pdf]
Examples
627-42
of Daniel A. McFarland, “Student Resistance: How the Formal and Informal Organization of Classrooms Facilitate Everyday Forms of Student
Defiance.” American Journal of Sociology
107 (2001): 612-78.; much of the
rest of the article is studied in Part VII of the course.
Esp. pp. 51-53
in Rob Cross, Wayne Baker, and Andrew Parker, “What Creates Energy in Organizations?” MIT Sloan Management Review
44 (Summer 2003): 51-56.
Mario Diani, pp.
175-85 of “Network Analysis,” in Bert Klandermans and Suzanne Staggenborg (eds.), Methods of Social Movement Research
(University of Minnesota Press, 2002, pp. 173-200).
Elisabeth S. Clemens and Martin D. Hughes, pp.
209-14 of “Recovering Past Protest: Historical Research on Social Movements,” Klandermans &
Staggenborg (ibid., pp. 201-30).
Paul Lichterman, pp.
138-39 of “Seeing Structure Happen:
Theory-Driven Participant Observation,” in Klandermans & Staggenborg (ibid.,
pp. 118-45).
Esp. pp.
311-20
in Katherine Faust, B. Entwisle, R.R. Rindfuss, S.J. Walsh, & Y. Sawangdee, “Spatial Arrangement of Social and Economic Networks
Among Villages in Nang Rong District, Thailand,” Social Networks
21 (1999): 311-37.
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