Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications

Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences

by Stanley Wasserman, Katherine Faust

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 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.

Genres: Sociology, Computer Science, Science, Nonfiction, Textbooks, Mathematics, Academic

857 pages, Paperback

First published November 25, 1994

Reviews

[Ryan Wang]

Great introductory and comprehensive book for social network analysis, though the content is a little dated.

[Brandon Foushee]

I can't believe I read this book.

[Joe Houde]

Sexy fun time!

I read it every day. Over and over. Because that is how you play with dissertation sources.

[Andres]

Excellent summary of social and math aspects of the area

[Cheol Kang]

내가 SNA newbie라 내용은 좋은지 어떤지 판단은 못 하겠지만... 잘 쓰여진 책은 아니다, 적어도.