[Air-l] social network analysis

[Alexander Semenov]

Dear Mr. Wellman,
May be it was me with "Hyperlink Network Analysis"?
Actually I know some basic authors of social networks analysis and  
applying all my forces to make them familiar to Russian sociological  
circles. For example 2 weeks ago I was talking about you to V. A. Yadov -  
a "patriarchy" of Russian sociology. I gave him hyperlinks to your site  
and he even assured me, that he'd read them =). By the way - all your  
scanned articles were downloaded by me a year ago. So, you can be sure  
that my vision of social network analysis will at least have "standard  
references as a source", what unfortunately I can not say about most of  
Russian researchers. Here I'll cut this thread of my thoughts as the  
following will be complains about stubborn Russian academics (not all  
but...) who do not want to refer to western experience and always tend to  
reinvent the bicycle. I even have some funny stories to prove my point but  
I'm afraid that if someone from Russian sociological circles will see  
that, it will be my "political suicide" =).
Actually I had a question about "social network analysis" too, but didn't  
have enough time to prepare it properly.
So, I'll try to use this situation as a ground to ask it. Sorry for  
unprepared question - I didn't have much time and decided to "strike while  
the iron is hot"
I am going to write an essay about stratification in social networks. But  
my short queries in aoir achieves, jstor, google etc. gave me rather  
disappointing results. Jstor gave me only reference to your "Network  
Analysis: Some Basic Principles", but I didn't find there a concrete  
reference to the question of stratification in social networks. So, the  
only notable thing I revealed was that stratification in social networks  
is usually connected with digital divide. I thought that stratification is  
one of the most important characteristics of social structure and I was  
surprised by such lack of materials about this topic.  Was I wrong? It's  
my mistake, that I didn't check Castells' works on this question  
thoroughly before asking. I hope, he has something useful, but don't blame  
me for my conclusions made without close reading of his works - as I've  
said I decided to use the occasion and didn't prepare for the proper  
question. Are there any other insights about stratification in social  
networks? I’m very interested in your personal opinion as it's always  
pleasant to boast with a reference to a "word of mouth" of Barry Wellman  
himself, even in Russia =).
If this theme will be interesting to the others, I suggest renaming it  
into "Stratification in Social Networks". If not... well, than there will  
be another one incoherent and misleading paper about social networks  
analysis.
Thanks in advance.

Alexander Semenov.
MA student
Faculty of Sociology
Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES)
http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:41:24 +0400, Barry Wellman  
<wellman at chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:

> Someone asked about Social Network Analysis, but gave a non-standard
> reference as a source.
>
> THE standard reference is Stanley Wasserman & Kathryn Faust, _Social
> Network Analysis (Cambridge U Press).
>
> For a non-technical intro, see my "Structural Analysis: From Method and
> Metaphor to ..." It's out of print (in Wellman & Berkowitz, _Social
> Structures: A Network Approach_), but scanned into my website.
>
> There's also a growing literature on web networks (so much more  
> convenient
> when you don't have to deal with real people), with key works by Duncan
> Watts, Lada Adamic, Bernardo Huberman, Jon Kleinberg.
>
> I'll let the Actor-Network people speak for themselves.
>
>  Barry Wellman
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