Macro, meso, micro: broadening the ‘social’ of social network analysis with a mixed methods approach

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2217-2236

  Bolíbar, Mireia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agency; Micro macro link; Mixed methods; Qualitative networks; Social interaction; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941367777     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-015-0259-0     Document Type: Article

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