Social Network Analysis

This workshop is an introduction to social network analysis emphasizing the subset of techniques often seen in macro-comparative social science. It will begin a brief discussion of social network analysis as applied to macro-comparative questions. We then introduce basic network notation, matrices and graphs. The major network analytic tools to be covered include centrality, singular value decomposition/correspondence analysis, and classic analyses of roles & positions. Using the software UCInet, participants will calculate centrality indices, measure the structural and regular equivalence of each pair of nodes in a matrix, and decompose raw and equivalence matrices into reduced-rank approximations.

Resources:

Alderson, Arthur and Jason Beckfield.  2004.  “Power and Position in the World City System.”  American Journal of Sociology 109: 811-51.

Clark, Robert V. and Matthew C. Mahutga. 2013. "Explaining the Trade-Growth Link: Assessing Diffusion-Based and Structure-Based Models of Exchange." Social Science Research 42(2): 401-417.

Mahutga, Matthew C. and David A. Smith. 2011. "Globalization, The Structure of the World Economy and Economic Development." Social Science Research: 40(1): 257-72.

Snyder, David and Edward L. Kick. 1979. “Structural Position in the World System and Economic Growth, 1955-1970: A Multiple-Network Analysis of Transnational Interactions.” American Journal of Sociology 84(5): 1096-1126.