TY - JOUR AU - McFarland, Daniel PY - 2010/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Network Analysis JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/network-analysis SP - AB - This course explores the applications of social network analysis to formal and informal organizations. Students are introduced to social network theory, methods, and research applications in sociology. Network concepts of both interactionist (e.g. balance, cohesion, centrality, cliques) and structuralist (e.g. structural equivalence, roles) traditions are defined and applied to topics in small groups, social movements, organizations, education, and communities, to name but a few. Students are asked to apply these techniques to data on schools and classrooms (i.e. provided by instructor), or data that participants wish to utilize from other organizational settings (upon consent of instructor). The literature on networks is approached with two goals in mind: (1) to understand the foundations of social network theory; (2) and to apply network analysis so as to better understand the social processes within organizations. ER -