Personal Networks: Classic Readings and New Directions in Egocentric Analysis

by Bernice Pescosolido and Edward B Smith

Book Overview

Social networks are ubiquitous. The science of networks has shaped how researchers and society understand the spread of disease, the precursors of loneliness, the rise of protest movements, the causes of social inequality, the influence of social media, and much more. Egocentric analysis conceives of each individual, or ego, as embedded in a personal network of alters, a community partially of their creation and nearly unique to them, whose composition...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108839975
• ISBN13: 9781108839976
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 768 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 8.0" x 10.1"