An intuitive introduction to blockmodeling with examples

Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-34

  Doreian, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Blockmodeling; Partitioning Social Networks; Role Structures

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937186167     PISSN: 07591063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/075910639906100103     Document Type: Editorial

References (23)

1. Vladimir Batagelj, STRAN - STRucture ANalysis, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1989.
2. Vladimir Batagelj, Notes on Blockmodeling, Social Networks, 1997, 19, 143-155.
3. Vladimir Batagelj, Patrick Doreian and Anuska Ferligoj, An Optimizational Approach to Regular Equivalence, Social Networks, 1992, 1-2, 14, 121-13.
4. Vladimir Batagelj, Anuska Ferligoj and Patrick Doreian, Direct and Indirect Methods for Structural Equivalence, Social Networks, 1992, 14, 1-2, 63-90.
5. Vladimir Batagelj, Anuska Ferligoj and Patrick Doreian, Fitting Pre-Specified Blockmodels, in C. Hayashi et al. (editors), Studies in Classification, Data Analysis and Data Organization: Data Science, Classification and Related Methods, Springer-Verlag, Tokyo, 1998, chapter 1, 199-206.
6. Stephen P. Borgatti and Martin G. Everett, The Notion of Position in Social Network Analysis, Sociological Methodology, 1992, 1-35.
7. Stephen Borgatti, Martin Everett and Linton C. Freeman, UCINET V: Network Analysis Software, Analytic Technologies, 1998.
8. Ronald L. Breiger, Scott A. Boorman and Phipps Arabie, An Algorithm for Clustering Relational Data with Applications to Social Network Analysis and Comparisons to Multidimensional Scaling, Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 1975, 12, 328-383.
9. Ronald S. Burt, Positions in Social Networks, Social Forces, 1976, 55, 93-122.
10. Ronald S. Burt, A Cautionary Note, Social Networks, 1986, 8, 205-211.
11. Patrick Doreian and Louis Albert, Partitioning Political Actor Networks: Some Quantitative Tools for Analyzing Qualitative Networks, Journal of Quantitative Anthropology, 1986, 1, 279-291.
12. Patrick Doreian, Vladimir Batagelj and Anuska Ferligoj, Partitioning Networks Based on Generalized Concepts of Equivalence, Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 1994, 19, 1-27.
13. Patrick Doreian, Vladimir Batagelj and Anuska Ferligoj, Generalized Blockmodeling, 1999, manuscript submitted for publication.
14. Thomas E. Drabek, Harriet L. Tamminga, Thomas S. Kilijanek and Christopher R. Adams, Managing Multiorganizational Emergency Responses, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1981.
15. Robin Dunbar and Patsy Dunbar, Social Dynamics of Gelada Baboons, Contributions to Primatology. 1975, 6, 1-157.
16. Katherine L. Faust and A. Kimball Romney, Does STRUCTURE Find Structure?: A Critique of Burt's Use of Distance as a Measure of Structural Equivalence, Social Networks, 1985, 7, 77-103.
17. Anuska Ferligoj, Vladimir Batagelj and Patrick Doreian, On Connecting Network Analysis and Cluster Analysis, in Gerhard H. Fischer and Donald Laming (editors), Contributions to Mathematical Psychology, Psychology, Psychometrics and Methodology, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1994, chapter 24, 329-344.
18. Gary Fine, With the Boys: Little League Baseball and Preadolescent Culture, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1987.
19. Gregory H. Heil and Harrison C. White, An Algorithm for Finding Simultaneous Homomorphic Correspondences Between Graphs and Their Image Graphs, Behavioral Science, 1976, 21, 26-35.
20. S. Johnson, Hierarchical Clustering Schemes, Psychometrika, 1967, 38, 241-254.
21. Francois Lorrain and Harrison C. White, Structural Equivalence of Individuals in Social Networks, Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 1971, 1, 49-80.
22. J.H. Ward, Hierarchical Grouping to Optimize an Objective Function, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1963, 58, 236-244.
23. Douglas R. White and Karl P. Reitz, Graph and Semigroup Homomorphisms on Networks of Relations, Social Networks, 1983, 5, 193-234.