Social Network Analysis for Ego-Nets

Nick Crossley Senior Lectuer in Sociology, University of Manchester Elisa Bellotti is a part of the department of sociology at the University of Manchester, as well as being a member of the Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis, where she organises the weekly seminar series. She also teaches introductory and advance workshops in social network analysis and egonetworks, and on mixed methods in SNA. Before arriving in Manchester in 2008, Elisa worked as a research fellow at the University of Turin and the University of Bozen, Italy. Gemma Edwards is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester. She researches historical and contemporary social movements, with a particular focus on the question of why people participate in protest. She has researched participation in public sector trade unions and women’s movements. She has expertise in mixed method social network analysis, and has applied this method to historical research on the UK suffragette movement. She is author of the book Social Movements and Protest (2014), an editor of the journal Social Movement Studies, and a member of the Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis.  Martin Everett is Professor of Social Network Analysis and co-director of the Mitchell Centre for SNA at the University of Manchester. He has published extensively on social network analysis and has over 100 peer-reviewed articles and consulted with government agencies as well as public and private companies. With Stephen Borgatti, Martin is co-author of UCINET, a well-known software package for social network analysis and is co-editor of the journal Social Networks. He is also a past President of INSNA (the professional association for network researchers) and winner of their Simmel Award for lifetime achievement. He was elected as an academician to the UK Academy of Social Sciences in 2004.  Dr. Johan Koskinen is a senior lecturer in social network analysis in the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences. He has previously worked at the Universities of Manchester, Oxford, and Stockholm. A statistician by training he has primarily made methodological contributions to the analysis of cross-sectional and dynamic network data and been published in Annals of Applied Statistics, Psychometrika, and Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, among others. He has also facilitated methodologically innovative research with a substantive focus that has been published in journals such as Quantitate Criminology, European Sociological Review, and Social Networks. Dr. Koskinen has been active in disseminating current best methods through frequent training and books such as the award-winning book on exponential random graph models.

Finally, a book on ego-centered networks! This new book provides a comprehensive introduction into the quantitative and qualitative analysis of egonets. It is very accessible for students who are new to the field and a valuable reference for researchers already working in it.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Social Capital and Small Worlds - A PrimerChapter 3: Getting Ego-NetsChapter 4: Analysing Ego-Net DataChapter 5: Narratives, Typologies and Case StudiesChapter 6: Multilevel Models for Cross-Sectional Ego-NetsChapter 7: Statistical Analysis of Network Dynamics