3 Network analysis and social theory Some remarks

Banck, Geert A.

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“…Barnes and Harary (1983) argued SNA could move beyond simple measurement and description and into a more formal theory via the application of the mathematical theorems driving the analysis. Others have posited SNA is more a theoretical paradigm and serves as an umbrella for other theories such as exchange theory (Cook, 1977;Cook & Whitmeyer, 1992;Emerson, 1962;Willer, 1999), or as a "transactionalist approach" (Bailey, 1969;Boissevain, 1974), or as rational choice theory (Banck, 1973;Lin, 1982;Van Poucke, 1979). Another theory SNA has been coupled with and is relevant to is social capital (Putnam, 2000).…”

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Addressing Racism, Politics and the Pivotal 2018 Midterm Point: Social Network Analysis of Black Lives Matter Twitter Discourse

LaPoe

Olson

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Electronic News

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This study examines Twitter data collected by Netlytic building up to the 2018 midterm election date as well as one month after. We conducted a social network analysis and a semantic textual analysis of the data. Prior research on network discourse of Black Lives Matter, a social movement organically created from a hashtag on social media following the acquittal of Trayvon Martin's killer George Zimmerman, found Black victims of police brutality and systemic racism were victim blamed. This present study maps tweets, showing communication networks formed around Black Lives Matter and what the networks communicated. Through our analysis, eight distinct virtual community networks emerged.

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Addressing Racism, Politics and the Pivotal 2018 Midterm Point: Social Network Analysis of Black Lives Matter Twitter Discourse

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Olson

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“…(Boissevain, 1973: viii) Boissevain argues for a possible synthesis of network analysis, exchange theory, and other approaches to replace structural-functionalism (Boissevain, 1973: xii). At the heart of some of the debates is the problem of the relationship between networks and corporate groups, and indeed the issue of whether the latter concept is redundant once the focus shifts to actors and interactions (Mitchell, 1973;Banck, 1973). Banck (1973: 37) observes the lack of consensus about what social networks are and about how to classify them.…”

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Taking networks seriously: Education policy in Britain

Raab

1992

European J Political Res

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Abstract. This paper argues against the merely metaphorical use of concepts such as ‘network’in the analysis of policy processes that involve relationships between government and interests. It juxtaposes some contributions from anthropology and sociology with the more familiar literature of political science and policy studies. It considers the question of norms, upon which an analysis of networks has some bearing. Next, it focuses upon the understanding of human agency and trust as a micro‐analytic strategy for research on meso‐level interactions, or ‘networking’. In the light of this, it then looks at the education policy process in Britain, with particular reference to Scotland, as seen in recent literature. It ends by discussing the changing education ‘partnership’in Britain, construing this concept as one that serves both actors as well as observers, and which has affinities with other analyses of policy networks.

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Social networks: An analytical tool

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South African Journal of Sociology

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3 Network analysis and social theory Some remarks

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Addressing Racism, Politics and the Pivotal 2018 Midterm Point: Social Network Analysis of Black Lives Matter Twitter Discourse

Addressing Racism, Politics and the Pivotal 2018 Midterm Point: Social Network Analysis of Black Lives Matter Twitter Discourse

Taking networks seriously: Education policy in Britain

Social networks: An analytical tool

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