The Oxford Handbook of Social Networks

Ryan Light is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon and the Digital Scholarship Fellow in the Social Sciences at the University of Oregon Libraries. His work has appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Annual Review of Sociology, and Social Forces, among others.James Moody is the Robert O. Keohane Professor of Sociology at Duke University. He has published extensively in the field of social networks, methods, and social theory with over 70 peer reviewed papers and extensive applied consultation with industry and DoD. He is Founding Director of the Duke Network Analysis Center, former editor of the online Journal of Social Structure, and co-founding editor of the American Sociological Association's new Open Access journal Socius.

• 1 IntroductionRyan Light and James MoodyNetwork Basics and Theory2 Network Basics: Points, Lines, and PositionsRyan Light and James Moody3 Theories of Social NetworksJan Fuhse4 Networks & Neo-Structural SociologyEmmanuel Lazega5 Rethinking Networks in the Era of Computational Social ScienceJames A. Kitts and Eric Quintaine6 Networks, Status, and InequalityJohn Levi Martin and James P. MurphyNetwork Methods7 Strategies for Gathering Social Network Datajimi adams, Tatiane Santos, and Venice Ng Williams8 Social Network ExperimentsMatthew E. Brashears and Eric Gladstone9 The network scale-up methodTyler H. McCormick10 The Continued Relevance of Ego Network DataJeffrey A. Smith11 Dyadic, Nodal and Group-level Approaches to Study the Antecedents and Consequences of Networks: Which Social Network Models to Use and When?Filip Agneessens12 An Introduction to Statistical Models for NetworksValentina Kuskova and Stanley Wasserman13 Advances in ERGMsDean Lusher, Peng Wang, Julia Brennecke, Julien Brailly, Malick Frye, and Colin Gallagher14 Modeling Network DynamicsDavid R. Schaefer and Christopher Steven Marcum15 Causal Inference for Social Network AnalysisKenneth A. Frank and Ran XuNetwork Dimensions16 Case Studies in Network Community DetectionSaray Shai, Natalie Stanley, Clara Granell, Dane Taylor, and Peter J. Mucha17 Three Perspectives on CentralityStephen P. Borgatti and Martin G. Everett18 Network VisualizationJames Moody and Ryan Light19 The Spatial Dimensions of Social NetworksZachary P. Neal20 Five Field-Experimental Tests of Preferential AttachmentArnout van de Rijt and Afife Idil Akin21 Duality beyond persons and groups: culture and affiliationSophie Mützel and Ronald Breiger22 Networks of Culture, Networks of Meaning: Two Approaches to Text NetworksRyan Light and Jeanine Cunningham23 Historical Network ResearchEmily Erikson and Eric FelthamNetwork Landscape24 Networks in ArchaeologyCarl Knappett25 Networks, Kin and Social SupportG. Robin Guathier26 Demography and NetworksM. Giovanna Merli, Sara R. Curran, and Claire Le Barbenchon27 The Neuroscience of Social NetworksCarolyn Parkinson, Thalia Wheatley, and Adam M. Kleinbaum28 Computational Social Science, Big Data, and NetworksPaolo Parigi and Bruno Abrahao29 Networks: An Economic PerspectiveMatthew O. Jackson, Brian W. Rogers, and Yves Zenou30 Social Capital and Economic SociologySteve McDonald and Richard A. Benton31 The International Trade NetworkMin Zhou32 Maps of Science, Technology, and EducationKaty Börner33 Criminal NetworksChris M. Smith and Andrew V. Papachristos