Full name: Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications

Author: Stanley Wasserman Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Sociology Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780521387071 0521387078

Social network analysis, which focuses on relationships among social entities, is used widely in the social and behavioral sciences, as well as in economics, marketing, and industrial engineering. Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications reviews and discusses methods for the analysis of social networks with a focus on applications of these methods to many substantive examples. As the first book to provide a comprehensive coverage of the methodology and applications of the field, this study is both a reference book and a textbook. Similar books: Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills Class by Paul Fussell Rachel and Her Children by Jonathan Kozol Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam Stigma by Erving Goffman Tally's Corner by Elliot Liebow Sidewalk by Mitchell Duneier Regulating the Poor by Frances Fox Piven The Corrosion of Character by Richard Sennett Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders by Teresa Gowan Promises I Can Keep by Kathryn Edin Tricks of the Trade by Howard S. Becker Code of the Street by Elijah Anderson Folk Devils and Moral Panics by Stanley Cohen Tell Them Who I Am by Elliot Liebow Mama Might Be Better Off Dead by Laurie Kaye Abraham Outsiders by Howard S. Becker When Work Disappears by William Julius Wilson The Consequences of Modernity by Anthony Giddens