1 Introduction / Peter J. Carrington and John Scott, 1
I. GENERAL ISSUES
2 Social Network Analysis: An Introduction / Alexandra Marin and Barry Wellman, 11
3 The Development of Social Network Analysis – with an Emphasis on Recent Events 7 Linton C. Freeman, 26
4 Network Theory / Stephen P. Borgatti and Virginie Lopez-Kidwell, 40
5 Social Physics and Social Networks / John Scott, 55
6 Social Networks in Economics / Sanjeev Goyal, 67
7 Relational Sociology, Culture, and Agency / Ann Mische, 80
II. SUBSTANTIVE TOPICS
8 Personal Communities: The World According to Me / Vincent Chua, Julia Madej, and Barry Wellman, 101
9 Social Support / Lijun Song, Joonmo Son, and Nan Lin, 116
10 Kinship, Class, and Community / Douglas R. White, 129
11 Animal Social Networks / Katherine Faust, 148
12 Networking Online: Cybercommunities / Anatoliy Gruzd and Caroline Haythornthwaite, 167
13 Corporate Elites and Intercorporate Networks / William K. Carroll and J.P. Sapinski, 180
14 Political Dimensions of Corporate Connections / Matthew Bond and Nicholas Harrigan, 196
15 Policy Networks / David Knoke, 210
16 Social Movements and Collective Action / Mario Diani, 223
17 Crime and Social Network Analysis / Peter J. Carrington, 236
18 Terrorist Networks: The Threat of Connectivity / Renée C. van der Hulst, 256
19 Scientific and Scholarly Networks / Howard D. White, 271
20 Cultural Networks / Paul DiMaggio, 286
21 Social Networks, Geography and Neighbourhood Effects / Ron Johnston and Charles Pattie, 301
22 A Multiple-Network Analysis of the World System of Nations, 1995–1999 / Edward L. Kick, Laura A. McKinney, Steve McDonald, and Andrew Jorgenson, 311
III. CONCEPTS AND METHODS
23 A Brief Introduction to Analyzing Social Network Data / Robert A. Hanneman and Mark Riddle, 331
24 Concepts and Measures for Basic Network Analysis / Robert A. Hanneman and Mark Riddle, 340
25 Survey Methods for Network Data / Peter V. Marsden, 370
26 Survey Sampling in Networks / Ove Frank, 389
27 Qualitative Approaches / Betina Hollstein, 404
28 Analyzing Affiliation Networks / Stephen P. Borgatti and Daniel S. Halgin, 417
29 Positions and Roles / Anuška Ferligoj, Patrick Doreian, and Vladimir Batagelj, 434
30 Relation Algebras and Social Networks / Philippa Pattison, 447
31 Statistical Models for Ties and Actors / Marijtje A.J. van Duijn and Mark Huisman, 459
32 Exponential Random Graph Models for Social Networks / Garry Robins, 484
33 Network Dynamics / Tom A.B. Snijders, 501
34 Models and Methods to Identify Peer Effects / Weihua (Edward) An, 514
35 Kinship Network Analysis / Klaus Hamberger, Michael Houseman, and Douglas R. White, 533
36 Large-Scale Network Analysis / Vladimir Batagelj, 550
37 Network Visualization / Lothar Krempel, 558
38 A Reader’s Guide to SNA Software / Mark Huisman and Marijtje A.J. van Duijn, 578