Social network analysis
Ego networks
This page is part of the materials supporting Sociology
157, an undergraduate introductory course on social network analysis. The course is taught
by Robert A. Hanneman of the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. Feel free to use and reproduce these materials (with citation). For more information, or to offer comments,
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Sources:
Hanneman and Riddle, Chapters 8, 9.
Ego networks:
- Opportunity and constraint; holes and embedding
- Wellman's social support
- Grannovetter's strength of weak ties
- Three views of the "neighborhood"
- Individual's life-world
- The distribution of neighborhood types (Bott's social class)
- The overall connectivity of the population (clustering and reachability)
- Describing embedding
- Netdraw demonstration: Knoke bureaucracies
- UCINET demonstration: Ego Networks>Density
- UCINET demonstration: Network>Cohesion>Clustering
- Application: Ron Burt's The Social Structure of Competition
- Crossing group boundaries
- UCINET demonstration: Network>Cohesion>EI Index
- Application: Network>Ego Network>Brokerage (Gould and
Fernandez)
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