SOC 8412 is also offered in Fall 2024
SOC 8412 is also offered in Spring 2023
Spring 2013 | SOC 8412 Section 001: Social Network Analysis: Theory and Methods (66829)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Seminar
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 1114
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Introduction to theoretical/methodological foundations of social network analysis. Concepts/principles, measurements, computer techniques. Applications to friendships, communities, workteams, intra-/inter-organizational relations, international systems. Focuses on network visualizations.
- Class Description:
- This seminar introduces social network analysis to graduate students, emphasizing its theoretical, substantive, and methodological foundations. Our collective goal is to acquire a sufficient grasp of the contemporary network literatures to pursue independent advanced study, and ultimately, to contribute original research results to our disciplines. Specifically, we'll identify key network concepts and principles; examine data collection, measurement, and computer analysis techniques; and investigate applications in sociology, organization studies, political science, public administration, and related disciplines. Network analysis spans a diverse range of phenomena from ego-centric ties, to small work-team sociograms, to organizational relations, to trade and military alliances among nation states. Based on the summer survey of registered students' substantive interests, we'll concentrate on social capital, communication, personal networks, learning and innovation diffusion, intra- and interorganizational relations, social movements and collective action, political networks, international systems, and small world and Internet dynamics. About an hour of each class will be spent on network methodologies. The principles that students learn in this course will enable them to study advanced topics of their own choosing. Wasserman & Faust's encyclopedic Social Network Analysis provides our primary text, with required and background articles and chapters selected from the research literatures of several disciplines. Students will learn how to perform basic network analyses of previously collected datasets, using the UCINET computer package. We'll also explore network visualizations using spatial plotting programs. Doctoral students in the Department of Sociology may use this course to fulfill their advanced methods requirement.
- Grading:
- 40% Reports/Papers
20% In-class Presentations
40% Problem Solving
- Class Format:
- 60% Lecture
20% Discussion
20% Student Presentations
- Workload:
- 75 Pages Reading Per Week
1 Paper(s)
5 Problem Set(s)
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66829/1133
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 31 March 2009
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