Explorations in Structural Analysis: Dual and Multiple Networks of Social Interaction (Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory) - Hardcover

Breiger, Ronald

 
9781138783775: Explorations in Structural Analysis: Dual and Multiple Networks of Social Interaction (Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1138783773 ISBN 13: 9781138783775
Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

At a time when most of the innovative techniques in empirical sociology concern themselves with networks of relations among variables (such as indices of occupational prestige, education and income), the central theme of this volume is that there is much substantive insight and analytical leverage to be gained from a conceptualization of social structure directly, as regularities in the patterning of relations among concrete entities. The view adopted here is that variate distributions measure selected consequences of structural pattern (of the actual connections among individuals or organizations) and, as such, they are useful indicators of questions to be asked in analyzing social structures directly, but they are neither descriptions nor analyses of the structure itself.

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About the Author

Ronald L. Breiger is Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona, USA.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138783773
ISBN 13 
9781138783775
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
206