Introduction

Readings

• Bernard, H. R. (2005). The Development of Social Network Analysis: A Study in the Sociology of Science, Linton C. Freeman, Empirical Press, Vancouver, BC (2004). Social Networks, 27(4), 377-384. [Review of Freeman book; get the main gist]

• Freeman, L. C. (2011). The development of social network analysis–with an emphasis on recent events. The Sage handbook of social network analysis, 21(3), 26-39. [Freeman's update to his book; focus on history]

• Wellman, B. 1988. "Structural Analysis: From Method and Metaphor to Theory and Substance". Pp. 19-61 in Social Structures a Network Approach, edited by Barry Wellman & S.D. Berkowitz. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 

• Marin, A., & Wellman, B. (2011). Social network analysis: An introduction. The SAGE handbook of social network analysis, 11-25. [leave the methods stuff for later]

• ASN chaps 1 & 2 (ASN refers to the textbook)

• Borgatti, S.P. & Halgin, D.S. (2011). On Network Theory. Organization Science. September/October 2011 22(5):1168-1181 [read pp 1168-1170]

• Kilduff, M., & Brass, D. J. (2010). "Organizational Social Network Research: Core Ideas and Key Debates." Academy of Management Annals, 4(1), 317–357. 

Homework

• Before class, please download and install UCINET software. Report any issues in class. Note that we will use the 32-bit version.

Notes

• Notes | introduction

Questions to think about

• what is a network? is it different from a group?

• what kinds of ties do we study?

• what are the goals of network research?

• where do interventions and change initiatives fit in?

Supplementary Readings

• Mayhew, B. H. (1980). Structuralism versus individualism: Part 1, shadowboxing in the dark. Social forces, 59(2), 335-375. 

• Borgatti, S.P., Mehra, A., Brass, D. and Labianca, G. (2009). “Network Analysis in the Social Sciences.” Science. Vol. 323. no. 5916, Feb 13, pp. 892 - 895 [published version] 

• Borgatti, S.P. and Foster, P. 2003. The network paradigm in organizational research: A review and typology. Journal of Management. 29(6): 991-1013

• Mitchell, J. C. (1969). The concept and use of social networks. Social networks in urban situations. 

  • Borgatti, S., & Halgin, D. S. (2021). On J. Clyde Mitchell’s ‘The Concept and Use of Social Networks.’. Personal Networks: Classic Readings and New Directions in Egocentric Analysis, 51, 98. [comment on Mitchell]

• Freeman, L. C. (2004). "The Development of Social Network Analysis: A Study in the Sociology of Science." 

Other readings

• Miles, R. E., & Snow, C. C. (1992). Causes of failure in network organizations. California management review, 34(4), 53-72. [note: i think this article is mostly fiction, but useful for us in thinking about what a network is]

• Arquilla, J., Ronfeldt, D., & Zanini, M. (1999). Networks, netwar, and information-age terrorism. RAND-PUBLICATIONS-MR-ALL SERIES-, 75-112. [again, mostly bs, but good for clarifying what a network is / is not]