Beschreibung:
Social Network Analysis is a research approach widely used in many disciplines ranging from physics to the social sciences. Qualitative Networks offers an insight on how to mix this perspective with qualitative methods, and in so doing enables us to investigate the forms and meanings of the networks of relationships in which people are embedded.
1. Introduction 2. Paradigm War and the Roots of Social Networks 3. The Constitutive Bricks of Qualitative Networks: Actors, relations, networks 4. Talking Ties: Micro processess of local structures in friendship networks 5. Ethnography of Overlapping Networks: Resource exchange in street groups 6. Scientific Communities: Describing social worlds in research collaborations 7. Coda