TY - JOUR AU - Frank, Ken PY - 2010/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Social Networks Seminar JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/social-networks-seminar-frank SP - AB - Many quantitative analyses in the social sciences are applied to data regarding characteristics of people, but not to data describing interactions among people. But interactions play an important role in affecting people’s behavior and beliefs that cannot be explained purely in terms of individual attributes or organizational context. In this seminar we will focus on analyzing social network data (who interacts with whom) so that we can relate people's interactions with what they think and do. We draw on statistical concepts that account for the unusual nature of network data as well as substantive theories across the social sciences to specify and interpret social network models. ER -