Historical social network analysis

International Review of Social History

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 125-144

  Wetherell, Charles ^a  

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EID: 0032283697     PISSN: 00208590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0020859000115123     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Blau, Peter M., Inequality and Heterogenity: A Primitive Theory of Social Structure (New York, 1977). A classic statement of structural sensibilities.
2. Emirbayer, Mustafa, "Manifesto for a Relational Sociology", American Journal of Sociology, 103 (1997), pp. 281-317. Forceful statement on the current state and future needs of relational (largely SNA) thinking in sociology.
3. Tilly, Charles, "Do Communities Act?", Sociological Inquiry, 43 (1973), pp. 209-240. Landmark essay in HSNA that posed questions about collective political action that analysts are still trying to answer today.
4. Wellman, Barry and S.D. Berkowitz (eds), Social Structures: A Network Approach (New York, 1988). A comprehensive statement of SNA as a paradigm of social inquiry. Heavily weighted toward the egocentric approach, but includes discussions of the whole network approach. Remarkably clear and readable.
5. Borgatti, Steven, Martin Everett and Linton C. Freeman. UCINET IV, Analytic Technologies (Natick, MA, 1995). Comprehensive software package that calculates most network analytic measures. Good documentation.
6. Wasserman, Stanley and Katherine Faust, Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (New York, 1994). A one stop, detailed guide to network analytic methods. Heavy going but comprehensive.
7. Bearman, Peter S., Relations into Rhetorics: Local Elite Social Structure in Norfolk, England, 1540-1640 (New Brunswick, NJ, 1993). Perhaps the best example of whole network HSNA. Demonstrates that network structure - and hence HSNA - can plausibly explain a major historical event.
8. Gould, Roger V., Insurgent Identities: Class, Community, and Protest in Paris form 1848 to the Commune (Chicago, 1995). A full-scale HSNA of collective political action that is unusually sensitive to historical context.
9. Padgett, John F. and Christopher K. Ansell, "Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434", American Journal of Sociology, 98 (1993), pp. 1259-1319. An HSNA classic that serves forcefully to bring agency into a historical analysis.