Doing Social Network Research: Network-Based Research Design for Social Scientists

Robins, Garry

ISBN 10: 1446276139 / ISBN 13: 9781446276136

Published by Sage Publications, 2015

About this Item

This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:9781446276136.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Doing Social Network Research: Network-Based Research Design for Social Scientists
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1446276139
• ISBN 13: 9781446276136
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 600 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Social Sciences

About this title

Synopsis

Are you struggling to design your social network research? Are you looking for a book that covers more than social network analysis?

 

If so, this is the book for you! With straight-forward guidance on research design and data collection, as well as social network analysis, this book takes you start to finish through the whole process of doing network research. Open the book and you′ll find practical, ′how to′ advice and worked examples relevant to PhD students and researchers from across the social and behavioural sciences.

 

The book covers:

• Fundamental network concepts and theories
• Research questions and study design
• Social systems and data structures
• Network observation and measurement
• Methods for data collection
• Ethical issues for social network research
• Network visualization
• Methods for social network analysis
• Drawing conclusions from social network results

This is a perfect guide for all students and researchers looking to do empirical social network research.

About the Author

Garry Robins is Professor in the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He has won research awards from the Psychometric Society and the American Psychological Association, and is a past winner of the Freeman Award for the scientific study of social structure. He is co-editor of the journal Network Science, a member of the Board of the International Network for Social Network Analysis, and former editor of the Journal of Social Structure. His research has been centred on the development of exponential random graph models for social networks, as well as a wide range of empirical and applied social network studies from cattle herding to criminal networks, from drug-sharing to environmental management, from little data to Big Data.