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 Introduction Ryan Light and James Moody Network Basics and Theory2 Network Basics: Points, Lines, and Positions Ryan Light and James Moody3 Theories of Social Networks Jan Fuhse4 Networks & Neo-Structural Sociology Emmanuel Lazega5 Rethinking Networks in the Era of Computational Social Science James A. Kitts and Eric Quintaine6 Networks, Status, and Inequality John Levi Martin and James P. Murphy Network Methods7 Strategies for Gathering Social Network Data jimi adams, Tatiane Santos, and Venice Ng Williams8 Social Network Experiments Matthew E. Brashears and Eric Gladstone9 The network scale-up method Tyler H. McCormick10 The Continued Relevance of Ego Network Data Jeffrey 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 Networks Valentina Kuskova and Stanley Wasserman13 Advances in ERGMs Dean Lusher, Peng Wang, Julia Brennecke, Julien Brailly, Malick Frye, and Colin Gallagher14 Modeling Network Dynamics David R. Schaefer and Christopher Steven Marcum15 Causal Inference for Social Network Analysis Kenneth A. Frank and Ran Xu Network Dimensions16 Case Studies in Network Community Detection Saray Shai, Natalie Stanley, Clara Granell, Dane Taylor, and Peter J. Mucha17 Three Perspectives on Centrality Stephen P. Borgatti and Martin G. Everett18 Network Visualization James Moody and Ryan Light19 The Spatial Dimensions of Social Networks Zachary P. Neal20 Five Field-Experimental Tests of Preferential Attachment Arnout van de Rijt and Afife Idil Akin21 Duality beyond persons and groups: culture and affiliation Sophie Mützel and Ronald Breiger22 Networks of Culture, Networks of Meaning: Two Approaches to Text Networks Ryan Light and Jeanine Cunningham23 Historical Network Research Emily Erikson and Eric Feltham Network Landscape24 Networks in Archaeology Carl Knappett25 Networks, Kin and Social Support G. Robin Guathier26 Demography and Networks M. Giovanna Merli, Sara R. Curran, and Claire Le Barbenchon27 The Neuroscience of Social Networks Carolyn Parkinson, Thalia Wheatley, and Adam M. Kleinbaum28 Computational Social Science, Big Data, and Networks Paolo Parigi and Bruno Abrahao29 Networks: An Economic Perspective Matthew O. Jackson, Brian W. Rogers, and Yves Zenou30 Social Capital and Economic Sociology Steve McDonald and Richard A. Benton31 The International Trade Network Min Zhou32 Maps of Science, Technology, and Education Katy Börner33 Criminal Networks Chris M. Smith and Andrew V. Papachristos