Theories and methods for understanding human social networks

Associate Professor Garry Robins & Prof Pip Pattison (University of Melbourne)
University of Adelaide, 2-6 May 2005

Reading list

Borgatti, S., & Foster, P. (2003). The network paradigm in organizational research: A review and typology. Journal of Management, 29, 991-1013.
Burt, R. S., Jannotta, J. E. J., & Mahoney, J. T. (1998). Personality correlates of structural holes. Social Networks, 20, 63-87.
Contractor, N., Wasserman, S. & Faust, K. (In press).  Testing multi-theoretical multilevel hypotheses about organizational networks: An analytic framework and empirical example. Academy of Management Journal.
Freeman, L.C. (1979). Centrality in social networks: Conceptual clarification. Social Networks, 1, 215-239.
Granovetter, M. S. (1973). The strength of weak ties. American Journal of Sociology 78, 1360-1380.
Lazega, E.,& Pattison, P. (1999). Multiplexity, generalized exchange and cooperation in organizations. Social Networks, 21, 67-90.
Nowicki, Krzysztof, & Snijders, T.A.B. (2001).  Estimation and prediction for stochastic blockstructures.  Journal of the American Statistical Association, 96: 1077-1087.
Padgett, J.F., & Ansell, C.K. (1993). Robust action and the rise of the Medici, 1400-1434. American Journal of Sociology, 98, 1259-1319.
Robins, G. L., & Pattison, P. E. (2005).  Interdependencies and social processes: dependence graphs and generalized dependence structures.  In P. Carrington, J. Scott, & S. Wasserman (Eds.), Models and methods in social network analysis.  New York: Cambridge University Press.
Robins, G.L., Pattison, P., Kalish, Y., & Lusher, D. (2005). A workshop on exponential random graph (p*) models for social networks. Social Networks working paper No 1/05: Psychology Department, University of Melbourne.
Robins, G.L., Pattison, P., & Woolcock, J. (2005). Small and other worlds: Global network structures from local processes. American Journal of Sociology.
Robins, G.L., Snijders, T.A.B., & Wang, P. (2005). Recent developments in exponential random graph (p*) models for social networks. Social networks working paper No 2/05: Psychology Department, University of Melbourne.
Shah, P.P. (1998). Who are employees' social referents: Using a network perspective to determine referent others. Academy of Management Journal, 41, 249-268.
Snijders, T.A.B. (2001). The statistical evaluation of social network dynamics. In M.E. Sobel and M.P. Becker (eds.), Sociological Methodology-2001, 361-395. Boston and London: Basil Blackwell.
Wang, P., Robins, G. & Pattison, P. (2005). Pnet user manual. University of Melbourne.
Watts, D., & Strogatz, S. (1998). Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks.  Nature, 393, 440-442.
White, H.C., Boorman, S.A., & Breiger, R.L. (1976). Social structure from multiple networks: I. Blockmodels of roles and positions. American Journal of Sociology, 87, 517-547.