Dear Mr. Wellman, May be it was me with "Hyperlink Network Analysis"? Actually I know some basic authors of social networks analysis and applying all my forces to make them familiar to Russian sociological circles. For example 2 weeks ago I was talking about you to V. A. Yadov - a "patriarchy" of Russian sociology. I gave him hyperlinks to your site and he even assured me, that he'd read them =). By the way - all your scanned articles were downloaded by me a year ago. So, you can be sure that my vision of social network analysis will at least have "standard references as a source", what unfortunately I can not say about most of Russian researchers. Here I'll cut this thread of my thoughts as the following will be complains about stubborn Russian academics (not all but...) who do not want to refer to western experience and always tend to reinvent the bicycle. I even have some funny stories to prove my point but I'm afraid that if someone from Russian sociological circles will see that, it will be my "political suicide" =). Actually I had a question about "social network analysis" too, but didn't have enough time to prepare it properly. So, I'll try to use this situation as a ground to ask it. Sorry for unprepared question - I didn't have much time and decided to "strike while the iron is hot" I am going to write an essay about stratification in social networks. But my short queries in aoir achieves, jstor, google etc. gave me rather disappointing results. Jstor gave me only reference to your "Network Analysis: Some Basic Principles", but I didn't find there a concrete reference to the question of stratification in social networks. So, the only notable thing I revealed was that stratification in social networks is usually connected with digital divide. I thought that stratification is one of the most important characteristics of social structure and I was surprised by such lack of materials about this topic. Was I wrong? It's my mistake, that I didn't check Castells' works on this question thoroughly before asking. I hope, he has something useful, but don't blame me for my conclusions made without close reading of his works - as I've said I decided to use the occasion and didn't prepare for the proper question. Are there any other insights about stratification in social networks? I’m very interested in your personal opinion as it's always pleasant to boast with a reference to a "word of mouth" of Barry Wellman himself, even in Russia =). If this theme will be interesting to the others, I suggest renaming it into "Stratification in Social Networks". If not... well, than there will be another one incoherent and misleading paper about social networks analysis. Thanks in advance. Alexander Semenov. MA student Faculty of Sociology Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES) http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:41:24 +0400, Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
Someone asked about Social Network Analysis, but gave a non-standard reference as a source.
THE standard reference is Stanley Wasserman & Kathryn Faust, _Social Network Analysis (Cambridge U Press).
For a non-technical intro, see my "Structural Analysis: From Method and Metaphor to ..." It's out of print (in Wellman & Berkowitz, _Social Structures: A Network Approach_), but scanned into my website.
There's also a growing literature on web networks (so much more convenient when you don't have to deal with real people), with key works by Duncan Watts, Lada Adamic, Bernardo Huberman, Jon Kleinberg.
I'll let the Actor-Network people speak for themselves.
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