E-book
Social networks : an introduction / Jeroen Bruggeman.
The first textbook to combines new with still-valuable older methods and theories. Innovative pedagogy explains mathematical models and concepts, and examples ranging from anthropology to organizational sociology and business studies will ensure wide applicability. An easy to use software tool, free of charge and open source, is appended on the supporting website that will enable readers to depict and analyze networks of their interest.
Record details
- ISBN: 0203930460
- ISBN: 9780203930465
- ISBN: 9781134048205
- ISBN: 1134048203
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 194 pages) : illustrations
- Publisher: London ; Routledge, 2008.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-181) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Representation and conceptualization -- Small worlds -- Searching and fat tails -- Communities : detection, conflict, cohesion, and culture -- Social inequality : prestige, power, brokerage, and roles -- Organizations as networks -- Methods : data and software. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
| Language Note: | English. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Subject: | Social networks. |
| Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. |
