Structural HOles

Readings

• ASN ch 8

• Burt, R. Measuring access to structural holes. [get the basics]

• Burt, R. S. (2002). The social capital of structural holes. The new economic sociology: Developments in an emerging field, 148(90), 122. [focus on mechanisms/theory]

• Burt, R. S. (2004). Structural holes and good ideas. American journal of sociology, 110(2), 349-399. [describe experiment & results in Fig 5]

Exercises

• structural holes

Class Log

• Week 9

Video

• class video

Supplementary Readings

• Gould, R. & Fernandez, R. 1989. Structures of mediation: A formal approach to brokerage in transaction networks. Sociological Methodology. 19: 89-126.

• Obstfeld, D., Borgatti, S., & Davis, J. 2014. Brokerage as a process: Decoupling third party action from social network structure. In Daniel J. Brass, Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca, Ajay Mehra, Daniel S. Halgin, and Stephen P. Borgatti (Eds.) Contemporary Perspectives on Organizational Social Networks. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Emerald Publishing: Bradford, UK. 

• Borgatti. 1997. Structural holes: Unpacking Burt's redundancy measures. Connections 20(1) [html]

• Everett, M. G., & Borgatti, S. P. (2020). Unpacking Burt’s constraint measure. Social Networks, 62, 50-57. 

Google translate (but no longer)

• tertius gaudens