%0 Book %1 citeulike:552898 %A Wasserman, Stanley %A Faust, Katherine %D 1994 %E Granovetter, Mark %I Cambridge University Press %K community %T Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications %U http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=CAm2DpIqRUIC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&sig=DVavmiWg57aMCuMMjG9espTKXYc&dq=SOCIAL NETWORK Analysis&prev=http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=SOCIAL NETWORK Analysis&hl=en&lr=&s %X The series Structural Analysis in the Social ~ciincesp resents approaches that explain social behavior and institutions by reference to relations among such concrete entities as persons and organizations. This contrasts with at least four other popular strategies: (a) reductionist attempts to explain by a focus on individuals alone; (b) explanations stressing the causal primacy of such abstract concepts as ideas, values, mental harmonies, and cognitive maps (thus, "structuralism" on the Continent should be distinguished from structural analysis in the present sense); (c) technological and material determinism; (d) explanations using "variables" as the main analytic concepts (as in the "structural equation" models that dominated much of the sociology of the 1970s), where structure is that connecting variables rather than actual social entities. The social network approach is an important example of the strategy of structural analysis; the series also draws on social science theory and research that is not framed explicitly in network terms, but stresses the importance of relations rather than the atomization of reductionism or the determinism of ideas, technology, or material conditions. Though the structural perspective has become extremely popular and influential in all the social sciences, it does not have a coherent identity, and no series yet pulls together such work under a single rubric. By bringing the achievements of structurally oriented scholars to a wider public, the Structural Analysis series hopes to encourage the use of this very fruitful approach.

@book{citeulike:552898, abstract = {The series Structural Analysis in the Social ~ciincesp resents approaches that explain social behavior and institutions by reference to relations among such concrete entities as persons and organizations. This contrasts with at least four other popular strategies: (a) reductionist attempts to explain by a focus on individuals alone; (b) explanations stressing the causal primacy of such abstract concepts as ideas, values, mental harmonies, and cognitive maps (thus, "structuralism" on the Continent should be distinguished from structural analysis in the present sense); (c) technological and material determinism; (d) explanations using "variables" as the main analytic concepts (as in the "structural equation" models that dominated much of the sociology of the 1970s), where structure is that connecting variables rather than actual social entities. The social network approach is an important example of the strategy of structural analysis; the series also draws on social science theory and research that is not framed explicitly in network terms, but stresses the importance of relations rather than the atomization of reductionism or the determinism of ideas, technology, or material conditions. Though the structural perspective has become extremely popular and influential in all the social sciences, it does not have a coherent identity, and no series yet pulls together such work under a single rubric. By bringing the achievements of structurally oriented scholars to a wider public, the Structural Analysis series hopes to encourage the use of this very fruitful approach.}, added-at = {2006-09-25T12:54:00.000+0200}, author = {Wasserman, Stanley and Faust, Katherine}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2d7ccb2f95b67423549b8d585e0398550/grahl}, citeulike-article-id = {552898}, editor = {Granovetter, Mark}, interhash = {387e48dafbb99962c628d30bfe9aa527}, intrahash = {d7ccb2f95b67423549b8d585e0398550}, keywords = {community}, priority = {0}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, timestamp = {2006-09-25T12:54:00.000+0200}, title = {Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications}, url = {http://books.google.com/books?hl=en\&lr=\&id=CAm2DpIqRUIC\&oi=fnd\&pg=PR9\&sig=DVavmiWg57aMCuMMjG9espTKXYc\&dq=SOCIAL NETWORK Analysis\&prev=http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=SOCIAL NETWORK Analysis\&hl=en\&lr=\&s}, year = 1994 }