Doing Social Network Research: Network-based Research Design for Social Scientists

The difference with social networks research Fundamental network concepts and ideas Thinking about networks: Research questions and study design Social systems and data structures: relational ties and actor attributes Network observation and measurement The empirical context of network data collection Ethical issues for social networks research Network visualization: What it can and cannot do A review of social network analytic methods Drawing conclusions: Inference, generalization, causality and other weighty matters