Qualitative networks : mixed methods in sociological research / Elisa Bellotti.
"How do we interact with people in our everyday life? Who are the people we are connected to? What are the consequences of overlapping social circles and how people deal with the potential emerging conflicts? What are the structural and cultural mechanisms that regulate social worlds? Network s...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
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2015.
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| Series: | Social research today (Routledge (Firm))
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; A brief introduction to social network analysis; Glossary; Outline of the book; 2 Paradigm war and the roots of social networks; Paradigm war? On the rhetoric of polarisation; The problems of inferential statistics and some possible solutions; Overcoming the limits of categorical analysis; Conclusions; Notes; 3 The constitutive bricks of qualitative networks: actors, relations, networks.
- Some assessments of the foundational elements of network scienceMechanisms and cultural figurations; Qualitative networks: on the importance of qualitative data; Conclusions; Notes; 4 Talking ties: micro processes of local structures in friendship networks; Defining and operationalising friendship; People, relationships, local structures; Structural configurations of friendship networks; Conclusion; Notes; 5 Ethnography of overlapping networks: resource exchange in street groups; Defining groups: categorical attributes and structural boundaries.
- Social fields and social worlds: objective relations, concrete interactionsChallenging positions: the fights of symbolic peripheries; Conclusions; Notes; 6 Scientific communities: describing social worlds in research collaborations; Scientific communities and multilevel network analysis; The database of PRIN projects; Overview of the system of PRIN funding in Italy; The levels of interaction; Modelling funding achievements; Qualitative analysis of projects' content: chasing economic resources; Conclusion; Notes; 7 Coda; References; Index.