This second edition of The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis provides an extensive overview of social network analysis, written by leading international experts. The reference work covers both foundational and new developments in the field.
The content is divided into three parts:
General issues such as social categories and computational social sciences;
Applications across diverse domains, including environmental policy, gender, ethnicity, cognition, and digital networks;
Concepts and methods such as centrality, block modeling, multilevel network analysis, spatial analysis, and data collection.
By offering an authoritative perspective on the history, theories, and methodologies of the field, this handbook lays the foundation for further development of social network analysis and network research in a broad sense.
PART 1: GENERAL ISSUES
PART 2: APPLICATIONS
PART 3: CONCEPTS AND METHODS