Introduction to Social Network Methods

Table of Contents
This page is the starting point for an on-line textbook supporting Sociology 157, an
undergraduate introductory course on social network analysis. Robert A. Hanneman of the
Department of Sociology teaches the course at the University of California, Riverside. Feel free
to use and reproduce this textbook (with citation). For more information, or to offer comments,
you can send me e-mail.
About this Textbook
This on-line textbook introduces many of the basics of forma l approaches to the analysis of
social networks. It provides very brief overviews of a number of major areas with some
examples. The text relies heavily on the work of Freeman, Borgatti, and Everett (the authors of
the UCINET software package). The materials here, and their organization, were also very
strongly influenced by the text of Wasserman and Faust, and by a graduate seminar conducted by
Professor Phillip Bonacich at UCLA in 1998. Errors and omissions, of course, are the
responsibility of the author.
Table of Contents
1. Social network data
2. Why formal methods?
3. Using graphs to represent social relations
4. Using matrices to represent social relations
5. Basic properties of networks and actors
6. Centrality and power
7. Cliques and sub-groups
8. Network positions and social roles: The analysis of equivalence
9. Structural equivalence
10. Automorphic equivalence
11. Regular equivalence
A bibliography of works about, or examples of, social network methods


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