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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 (except we will slip in beta centrality as a substitute for eigenvector).
Readings
ASN, chap 10 Centrality
Freeman, L. C. (1979.) Centrality in social networks conceptual clarification. Social Networks, 1 pp. 215-239. [pdf]
Borgatti, S.P. and Everett, M.G. 2006. A graph-theoretic perspective on centrality. [pdf]
Bonacich, P., 1987. Power and centrality: A family of measures. American journal of sociology, 92(5), pp.1170-1182. [^pdf]
Tutorials
Centrality. Borgatti, Floyd, Grosser. [doc]
Borgatti et al. Analyzing Social Networks. Centrality
Hanneman & Riddle. Chap. 10
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Exercises
Supplementary Readings
Borgatti, SP and Everett, MG. (Accepted, too appear in 2020). “Three Perspectives on Centrality.” In The Oxford Handbook of Social Networks, edited by James Moody & Ryan Light. Oxford University Press. [pdf]
RESOURCES
Old Slides
centrality part 1 - 2020 [pdf]
8 Centrality 1.pdf 2019
Centrality I.pdf
Old Video
centrality 2020 [mp4]
Centrality1.mp4 -- note that it starts abruptly as I forgot to turn it on right away 2019
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