Social network analysis is explicitly interested in the relationships among social actors. Focusing on structural variables, it opens up a field of data analysis and model building which is completely different from c...Social network analysis is explicitly interested in the relationships among social actors. Focusing on structural variables, it opens up a field of data analysis and model building which is completely different from conventional social statistical methods. Spanning nearly seventy years of research, statistical network analysis has witnessed three stages of models. Beginning from the late 1930s, the first generation of scholars (Moreno, Katz, Heider, etc.) studied the distribution of various network statistics. The second stage began from the 1970s and continued to the mid 1980s. It dealt primarily with exponential family of probability distributions for directed graphs (p 1 model) under the vital assumption of “dyad independence”. Relaxing this assumption, Frank and Strauss (1986), Strauss and Ikeda (1990), Wasserman and Pattison (1996) published their pathbreaking papers based on Markov’s random graphs models (p\+* model and its generalization: logit p\+*), which brought social network models to a new stage. It is an extremely flexible and complete model dealing with all sorts of structural aspects of social networks. This substantial “real” structural research should be employed to examine the relational essence of Chinese society.展开更多
Base on the data and experience obtained from the field work, this article panoramically exhibits peasants’ mentality and behavioral logic of their practice of reproduction in their real life. Using the two concepts ...Base on the data and experience obtained from the field work, this article panoramically exhibits peasants’ mentality and behavioral logic of their practice of reproduction in their real life. Using the two concepts of “space” and “habit” in the theory of Bourdieu’s sociology, the author studied, and tried to explain in the article, the functions and influencing processes of circumstances, situations and relationships in regulating peasants’ reproduction motivation and behavior, and their sex preference and selection, in particular.展开更多
Based on the analysis of three kinds of sociological data (attribute, relational and ideational), this paper compared two types of unit of analysis (UA) for sociological research: UA of “point” and UA of “tie.” Us...Based on the analysis of three kinds of sociological data (attribute, relational and ideational), this paper compared two types of unit of analysis (UA) for sociological research: UA of “point” and UA of “tie.” Using the P1 model, the author demonstrated the process of relational data analysis. The network approach could probe deeply into the relational essence of a variety of social phenomena.展开更多
文摘Social network analysis is explicitly interested in the relationships among social actors. Focusing on structural variables, it opens up a field of data analysis and model building which is completely different from conventional social statistical methods. Spanning nearly seventy years of research, statistical network analysis has witnessed three stages of models. Beginning from the late 1930s, the first generation of scholars (Moreno, Katz, Heider, etc.) studied the distribution of various network statistics. The second stage began from the 1970s and continued to the mid 1980s. It dealt primarily with exponential family of probability distributions for directed graphs (p 1 model) under the vital assumption of “dyad independence”. Relaxing this assumption, Frank and Strauss (1986), Strauss and Ikeda (1990), Wasserman and Pattison (1996) published their pathbreaking papers based on Markov’s random graphs models (p\+* model and its generalization: logit p\+*), which brought social network models to a new stage. It is an extremely flexible and complete model dealing with all sorts of structural aspects of social networks. This substantial “real” structural research should be employed to examine the relational essence of Chinese society.
文摘Base on the data and experience obtained from the field work, this article panoramically exhibits peasants’ mentality and behavioral logic of their practice of reproduction in their real life. Using the two concepts of “space” and “habit” in the theory of Bourdieu’s sociology, the author studied, and tried to explain in the article, the functions and influencing processes of circumstances, situations and relationships in regulating peasants’ reproduction motivation and behavior, and their sex preference and selection, in particular.
文摘Based on the analysis of three kinds of sociological data (attribute, relational and ideational), this paper compared two types of unit of analysis (UA) for sociological research: UA of “point” and UA of “tie.” Using the P1 model, the author demonstrated the process of relational data analysis. The network approach could probe deeply into the relational essence of a variety of social phenomena.
