How to generate personal networks: Issues and tools for a sociological perspective

Field Methods

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 266-286

  Bidart, Claire ^a   Charbonneau, Johanne ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CENTRE URBANISATION CULTURE SOCIÉTÉ   (Canada)

Author keywords

methods; name generators; social networks; sociology

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959697179     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: 15523969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X11408513     Document Type: Article

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