COMM 481: Social Networks (Fall 2006)

Readings:

Bott, Elizabeth. (1955). Urban Families: Conjugal Roles and Social Networks. Human Relations 8:345-83

Fischer, Claude. (1982). To Dwell Among Friends. Berkeley: University of California Press. [Ch. 1, 7-10]

Wellman, Barry, and Scot Wortley. (1990). Different Strokes From Different Folks: Community Ties and Social Support. American Journal of Sociology 96(3):558-88.

Kalmijn, M. (2003). Shared friendship networks and the life course. Social Networks, 25, 231-249.

Readings:

McPherson, Miller, Lynn Smith-Lovin and James Cook. (2001). Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks. Annual Review of Sociology 27: 415-444.

Pearson, M., Steglich, C., & Snijders, T. (2006). Homophily and assimilation among sport-active adolescent substance users. Connections, 27(1), 47-63.

Hill, R. A., & Dunbar, R. I. M. (2003). Social Network Size in Humans. Human Nature, 14(1), 53-72.

Killworth, Peter, Eugene Johnsen, H Russell Bernard, Gene Ann Shelley, and Christopher McCarthy. 1990. Estimating the Size of Personal Networks. Social Networks 12: 289-312.

Listen to Prof. Lynn Smith-Lovin (Duke University) and Prof. Robert Putnam (Harvard University) on WUNC “State of Things” (June 27, 2006). This interview discusses this article:

McPherson, M., Smith-Lovin, L., & Brashears, M. E. (2006). Social Isolation in America: Changes in Core Discussion Networks over Two Decades. American Sociological Review, 71, 353-375.

Readings:

Wasserman, S., & Faust, K. (1994). Chapter 6: Centrality and prestige. In Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications. Cambridge University Press.

Freeman, Linton. 1979. Centrality in Social Networks: Conceptual Clarification. Social Networks 1: 215-39.

Krebs, V. (2002). Uncloaking Terrorist Networks. First Monday, 7(4).

Valente, T., Unger, J., & Johnson, A. (2005). Do popular students smoke? The association between popularity and smoking among middle school students. Journal of Adolescent Health, 37, 323-329.

Mouttapa, M., Valente, T., Gallaher, P., Rohrback, L. A., & Unger, J. B. (2004). Social Network Predictors of Bullying and Victimization. Adolescence, 39(154), 315-335.

Readings:

Zwijze-Koning, K., & Jong, M. D. T. d. (2005). Auditing Information Structures in Organizations. Organizational Research methods, 8(4), 429-453.

Marin, Alexandra & Keith Hampton (forthcoming). Simplifying the Personal Network Name Generator: Alternatives to Traditional Multiple and Single Name Generators. Field Methods.

Lin, Nan, Yang-chih Fu, & Ray-May Hsung. (2001). The Position Generator: Measurement Techniques for Investigations of Social Capital. Pp. 57-84 in Social Capital: Theory and Research, edited by Nan Lin, Karen Cook, and Ronald Burt. New York: Aldine De Gruyter.

van der Gaag, Martin and Tom .A.B. Snijders. (2005). The Resource Generator: Social Capital Quantification with Concrete Items. Social Networks 27(1): 1-29.