In our view, it is better to say that traditional social science While we agree with this distinction,Īs methodologists, we would prefer to put it another way. Science studies personal attributes whereas network analysis studies social relations. Three areas are covered in detail: displaying 2-mode data as networks, detecting clusters, andĪccording to Wellman (1988), social network analysis differs from traditional social science in that traditional social Presents and discusses ways of applying and interpreting traditional network-analytic techniques to 2-mode data, as well asĭeveloping new techniques. However, network analysis is notĬompletely divorced from traditional social science, and often has occasion to collect and analyze 2-mode matrices.įurthermore, some of the methods developed in network analysis have utility for analyzing non-network data.

In contrast, the data in traditional social science are represented as 2-mode matrices. social relations) may be represented in matrix form by a square 1-mode matrix. Traditional social science we study monadic attributes of individuals, in network analysis we study dyadic attributes of pairs Email: analysis is distinguished from traditional social science by the dyadic nature of the standard data set. Of Organization Studies, Carroll School of Management, Boston College, Chestnut Everett / University of Greenwich *Direct correspondence to Steve Borgatti, Dept.

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