Two-Mode Networks

In network analysis, 2-mode data typically refers to data like the Davis Gardner and Gardner Deep South data, which records which social events were attended by which society women. Other well-known 2-mode data include memberships in boards of directors, participation in clubs, and associations with concepts/words.

Topics

- representing, transforming and analyzing 2-mode data

Key Readings

Breiger, Ronald. 1974. “The duality of persons and groups.” Social Forces. 53:191-190 [^pdf]
Borgatti, S. P., & Everett, M. G. 1997. Network analysis of 2-mode data. Social Networks, 19(3): 243-269. [pdf]
Borgatti, S.P. and Halgin, D. In press. “Analyzing Affiliation Networks”. In Carrington, P. and Scott, J. (eds) The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis. Sage Publications [pdf]

Bibliography

- R.L. Breiger and P.E. Pattison. 1986. "Cumulated Social Roles: The Duality of
- Persons and Their Algebras," Social Networks 8 : 215-256
- King-To Yeung, “The Duality of Persons and Relationships.” Social Forces 2005.
- Georg Simmel, "How is Society Possible?" (pp. 6-22), "The Problem of Sociology" (pp.
- 23-35), and possibly "Group Expansion and the Development of Individuality" (pp. 251-
- 93) in Donald Levine (ed.), Georg Simmel on Individuality and Social Forms.
- R.L. Breiger, “The Duality of Persons and Groups,” Social Forces 53 (1974): 181-90
- (reprinted in Wellman and Berkowitz, Social Structures, 83-98).
- Peter S. Bearman, "The Social Structure of Suicide," Sociological Forum 6 (1991): 501-
- 524.
- Phillip Bonacich, Annie Cody Holdren, and Michael Johnston, “Hyper-Edges and
- Multidimensional Centrality.” Social Networks 26 (2004): 189-203.
- Thomas J. Fararo and Patrick Doreian, “Tripartite Structural Analysis: Generalizing the
- Breiger-Wilson Formalism.” Social Networks 6 (1984): 141-175.