Centrality I

Centrality refers to a family of structural concepts characterizing a node's position in the network, often from the perspective of which positions confer advantage. One perspective on centrality is that of global social capital, as opposed to the local social capital of Lin's social resource theory or Burt's structural holes. Today's class will focus on the Big Four: degree (which, technically, should probably not be called a centrality measure), closeness, betweenness, eigenvector.

Note: we will spend the first hour on methods of moving data in and out of ucinet.

RESOURCES

Old Slides

• Centrality I.pdf

• Centrality I

Old Video

• class video

Bibliography

• Centrality bibliography