research-article | 27-March-2019
structure and content of men’s social ties (Behrman et al., 2002; Kincaid, 2000; Montgomery and Casterline, 1993; Rutenberg and Watkins, 1997; Perkins et al., 2015). Fundamental questions of whether Bangladeshi men discuss birth control have not been posed. Hence, the aim of this study is to provide the first-ever view of men’s social interactions in the context of fertility control in Bangladesh using social network analysis. The results of this analysis reveal new avenues for action in population
Bhanu Bhatia
Journal of Social Structure, Volume 20 , ISSUE 2, 1–19
Research Article
social network analysts have shown little interest in exploring the interplay of networks and religion. In this paper, I review, and in some cases expand upon, what social scientists of religion have learned about networks and religion. I conclude with a call for social network analysts to focus the analytical tools of social network analysis on a phenomenon that has and continues to exert considerable influence in today’s world.
Sean F. Everton
Journal of Social Structure, Volume 16 , ISSUE 1, 1–34
research-article | 04-November-2019
spread of content and information design practices among influencers that ultimately influence appetite. The current study begins to address this gap by leveraging social network analysis and theoretical frameworks of social relationships to explore and interpret patterns of connections among food bloggers on Twitter.
Social Networking Sites Facilitate Connections Among Bloggers
To establish themselves as social media influencers, bloggers must display their identities in an authentic manner online
Allison D. Hepworth,
Jess Kropczynski,
Justin Walden,
Rachel A. Smith
Journal of Social Structure, Volume 20 , ISSUE 4, 1–21
Research Article | 11-February-2019
Abstract
Although scholars have argued that people actively shape and reshape their social networks (e.g., Parks, 2016), this aspect of relational development has received little attention. This study sought to determine if people’s self-perceptions of interpersonal communication skills translated into behavior that led to relationship formation in a new network. A 9-month longitudinal social network analysis (N = 94) of the residents of a first-year university residence hall using Facebook tie
Christopher J. Carpenter,
Xun Zhu,
Rachel A. Smith
Journal of Social Structure, Volume 20 , ISSUE 1, 1–24
Research Article
. For this purpose a step-wise algorithm is employed in order to identify social sub-groups by employing social network analysis and by drawing on the flow data constructed for this study. What is evident from this study is that the social network created by the mobility of laborers in Siteler, an industrial cluster specialized in furniture production, reveals a topography of social relations that cannot be split into equally large blocks but eventually parceled out to micro parts consisting of
Burak Beyhan
Journal of Social Structure, Volume 12 , ISSUE 1, 1–33
research-article | 05-January-2021
Ian Kim,
Thomas W. Valente
Connections: The Quarterly Journal, Volume 40 , ISSUE 1, 129–142
research-article | 30-November-2021
combining social network analysis and script analysis is growing, we see an initial emergence of tools that aim at operationalising the procedural aspects of mixing these two theoretical and methodological frameworks (Brants, 2019). ScriptNet contributes to these attempts by proposing a simple tool to visualize suspected criminal networks. In ScriptNet, the investigators can create a node for each entity involved in the crime (person, location, resource and organisation) and add a series of nodes
Elisa Bellotti,
Nicholas Lord,
Cecilia Flores Elizondo,
Joshua R. Melville,
Steve Mckellar
Connections, Volume 42 , ISSUE 1, 16–30
Research Article | 13-August-2019
sheds light on this issue by analyzing how the network logic embraced by Castells defines the social, economic, and political relations in his theory of network society, and how such aspects of his theory relate to social network analysis. It is shown that Castells’ institutional network concept is derived from the increased relevance of networks as the emerging form of social organization, epitomized by the idea of global networks of instrumental exchanges. He did not shed light on the
Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko
Journal of Social Structure, Volume 16 , ISSUE 1, 1–18
research-article | 30-November-2018
well as cultural characteristics, particularly as it relates to health communication.
Purpose
The purpose of this mixed-methods social network analysis study was to identify structural and contextual patterns in African American adults’ FHH knowledge, based on their interpersonal communication with their relatives. In particular, the first aim of this study was to identify patterns regarding the characteristics of family members who have directly shared their personal health history information
Sula M. Hood,
Elizabeth H. Golembiewski,
Hadyatoullaye Sow,
Kyle Benbow,
Jeremy Prather,
Lisa D. Robison,
Elisabeth Martin-Hagler
Journal of Social Structure, Volume 20 , ISSUE 3, 96–118
Research Article | 13-January-2020
Simon Rodan
Journal of Social Structure, Volume 12 , ISSUE 1, 1–23
Article | 04-June-2018
Andrea Gallelli
Connections, Volume 37 , ISSUE 1-2, 69–84
Article | 04-June-2018
Reliability and validity are key concerns for any researcher. We investigate these concerns as they apply to social network analysis programs. Six well-used and trusted programs were compared on four common centrality measures (degree, betweenness, closeness, and eigenvector) under a variety of network topographies. We identify notable inconsistencies between programs that may not be apparent to the average user of these programs. Specifically, each program may have implemented a variant of a
Philip J. Murphy,
Karen T. Cuenco,
YuFei Wang
Connections, Volume 37 , ISSUE 1-2, 23–44
Research Article
Laura H. Thompson,
John Schellenberg,
Margaret Ormond,
John L. Wylie
Journal of Social Structure, Volume 12 , ISSUE 1, 1–17
research-article | 30-November-2018
At the business meeting of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) in June 2018, there was great enthusiasm for conducting and archiving interviews with luminaries in the field. Lin Freeman’s name was mentioned, and I was drafted to conduct the interview.
This is an edited transcript of the interview that I conducted with Lin on July 27, 2018. We were at Lin’s apartment in Laguna Beach, California. Lin sat on a sofa with his Yorkshire terrier, Geordie, at his side and I
Katherine Faust
Connections: The Quarterly Journal, Volume 39 , ISSUE 1, 1–9
Research Article
Ian McCulloh,
Kathleen M. Carley
Journal of Social Structure, Volume 12 , ISSUE 1, 1–37
Research Article | 10-March-2018
Departing from Roberto Michels’s classic analysis of oligarchy, we provide a structural analysis of the concept based on social network analysis. We define oligarchy as a social network that exhibits three structural properties: tight interconnections among a small group of prominent actors who form an “inner circle”; the organization of other actors in the network through the intermediation of this inner circle; and weak direct connections among the actors outside the inner
Christopher Ansell,
Renata Bichir,
Shi Zhou
Connections, Volume 36 , ISSUE 1, 20–32
Research Article | 10-March-2018
This paper presents three items. The first is a brief outline of structural balance oriented towards tracking the amount of balance (or imbalance) over time in signed networks. Often, the distribution of specific substructures within broader networks has great interest value. The second item is a brief outline of a procedure in Pajek for identifying fragments in networks. Identifying fragments (or patterns or motifs) in networks has general utility for social network analysis. The third item is
Patrick Doreian,
Andrej Mrvar
Connections, Volume 36 , ISSUE 1, 6–18
Research Article | 10-March-2018
Stephanie R. Dyal
Connections, Volume 36 , ISSUE 1, 52–57
research-article | 30-November-2018
Format of this Issue
This special issue on networks and health represents a collection of papers by outstanding scholars invited by us to highlight novel, timely work in this increasingly large field. The idea for such an issue in the Journal of Social Structure grew out of proposals to use the journal to call attention to topical areas of social network analysis brought to the INSNA Business meeting of the 2015 Sunbelt meeting in Brighton, UK. We invited over a dozen researchers known to be
Christopher Steven Marcum,
Laura M. Koehly
Journal of Social Structure, Volume 20 , ISSUE 3, 1–6
research-article | 10-January-2020
of social science: physics in the case of network science, and library and information science in the case of webmetrics. It is particularly curious that social network analysis (SNA), a sub-field of sociology that is focused on the representation and statistical analysis of social structures, has not been extensively used to analyze social structures on the web (represented via hyperlink networks).
However, the potential for using SNA to analyze hyperlink networks was first noted in the
Dean Lusher,
Robert Ackland
Journal of Social Structure, Volume 12 , ISSUE 1, 1–49
research-article | 07-May-2019
Network visualizations
Graphic representation of relational data is one of the central elements of social network analysis (Freeman, 2004). Jacob Levy Moreno produced the first sociograms in the 1930s and over the years, they have evolved from ad hoc drawings to sophisticated visualizations, largely due to the new possibilities offered by computer and software development (Freeman, 2000; Moreno, 1934). Since their inception, visualizations have been integrated in social network analysis in
Isidro Maya-Jariego,
Romina Cachia
Connections: The Quarterly Journal, Volume 39 , ISSUE 1, 1–18
research-article | 30-November-2019
. This one-mode firm network is usually analyzed through methods of social network analysis. The bottom level represents the city level. A network structure arises through cities that are connected through firms operating in them. This one-mode city network is usually analyzed through the interlocking network model. Our focus is on the link between both levels: on the city–firm nexus. When a firm opens a new location, it establishes a new tie to a city. Since the firm holds agency, it sends a tie to
Silke Zöllner,
Stefan Lüthi,
Alain Thierstein
Journal of Social Structure, Volume 21 , ISSUE 1, 107–133