Bücher der Reihe Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences

Provides an account of the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of exponential random graph models (ERGMs), as well as a compendium of ERGM methods and illustrative applications. The reader is given sufficient detail to specify ERGMs, fit them to data with any of the available software packages and interpret the results.

Egocentric network analysis is used widely across the social, information, and health sciences. Until now, there has been no single reference for researchers seeking guidance on best practice in egocentric network analysis. This book fills this gap, synthesizing a diverse and diffuse body of knowledge on this method and its applications.

Philippa Pattison presents a number of algebraic models for the analysis of network data in the social sciences and explains the rationale behind the algebraic approach.

This book illustrates a set of tools - story grammars, relational data models, and network models - that can be profitably used for the collection, organization, and analysis of narrative data in socio-historical research (e.g. narratives of strikes, demonstrations, lynching, riots).

This book consists of review articles by leading methodologists, all commissioned exclusively for this volume. The book will complement the classic text by Wasserman and Faust, Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (also available from Cambridge University Press).

An ethnographic study of the role of personal ties between private entrepreneurs and local officials in China's emerging market economy, this book is based upon fieldwork in Xiamen City, Fujian, one of China's five special economic zones.

This book consists of review articles by leading methodologists, all commissioned exclusively for this volume. The book will complement the classic text by Wasserman and Faust, Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (also available from Cambridge University Press).

Social Capital explains the importance of using social connections and social relations in achieving goals. Social capital, or resources accessed through such connections and relations, is critical (along with human capital, or what a person or organization actually possesses) in achieving goals for individuals, social groups, organizations, and communities.

This book traces the evolution of Japan's network economy during the twentieth century, concluding that relationships are still central to the Japanese way of business, but are much more subordinated to the strategies of individual enterprises than the Japanese network economy of the past.

Between Politics and Markets examines how the decline of central planning in post-Mao China was related to the rise of two markets - an economic market for the exchange of products and factors, and a political market for the diversion to private interests of state assets and authorities.

This book provides an integrated treatment of blockmodeling, the most frequently used technique in social network analysis. The authors propose direct optimizational approaches to blockmodeling which yield blockmodels that best fit the network data. Generalizations and the deductive use of blockmodeling are proposed while substantive implications are explored.

Guanxi (social networks) is among the most important and studied phenomena in China. In this volume, the editors bring together many of the top scholars of guanxi to present a dynamic view of the role of social networks in Chinese society.

In this book, nine scholars representing various perspectives examine institutions that govern economic activity in the United States and the dramatic changes they have undergone since the late nineteenth century. They investigate how and why these changes occurred and continue to occur as markets become more volatile, technology changes and international competition becomes more intense.

Using network models from graph theory, this book analyses the formation of Pacific island empires, the social basis of dialect groups, the emergence of economic and political centres, the evolution and devolution of social stratification and the evolution of kinship terminologies, marriage systems and descent groups from common historical prototypes.

Guanxi (social networks) is among the most important and studied phenomena in China. In this volume, the editors bring together many of the top scholars of guanxi to present a dynamic view of the role of social networks in Chinese society.

The volume as a whole will demonstrate to a broader public the significance and value of a structural approach to business studies, and will appeal to sociologists, organization theorists, business scholars, economists, political scientists, and business historians.

This book describes how a network of interpersonal influence can operate to form agreeements among persons who occupy different positions in a group or organization. It presents an account of consensus formation that is unique in its integration of work from the fields of social psychology and sociology concerned with group dynamics and social structures.

Like many organizations and social movements, the Third Republic French labour movement exhibited a marked tendency to schism into competing sectarian organizations. During the roughly 50-year period from the fall of the Paris Commune to the creation of the powerful French Communist Party, the French labour movement shifted from schism to broad-based solidarity and back to schism. In this 2001 book, Ansell analyses the dynamic interplay between political mobilization, organization-building, and ideological articulation that produced these shifts between schism and solidarity. The aim is not only to shed light on the evolution of the Third Republic French labour movement, but also to develop a more generic understanding of schism and solidarity in organizations and social movements. To develop this broader understanding, the book builds on insights drawn from sociological analyses of Protestant sects and anthropological studies of segmentary societies, as well as from organization and social movement theory.

In this book, the author proposes an interesting approach to the study of social structure, presenting a conceptualization of the processes of societal formation by drawing on developments in the physical, biological and cognitive sciences.

The book provides a detailed study of the software industry in Ireland, of the state policies that promoted it, the political institutions which made that possible and of how similar institutions have been central to other high-tech regions in Taiwan, Israel and elsewhere.