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Conducting personal network research : a practical guide /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: McCarty, Christopher, 1958- (Author), Lubbers, Miranda J. (Author), Vacca, Raffaele (Author), Molina, José Luís (Ethnologist) (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : The Guilford Press, [2019]
Series:Methodology in the social sciences.
Subjects:
Social networks > Research > Methodology.
Social sciences > Network analysis.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • How Personal Networks Have Been Used So Far
  • Developing a Research Question
  • Getting Started: Selecting a Population, Survey Mode, and Sampling Frames
  • Questions about the Ego
  • Delineating Personal Networks: Alter Elicitation
  • Collecting Alter Attributes
  • Collecting Data about Ties between Alters
  • Visualizing Personal Networks
  • Measuring Personal Network Characteristics without Generating Names
  • Analyzing Personal Network Composition and Structure
  • Statistical Modeling with Personal Network Data: The Level of Egos
  • Statistical Modeling with Personal Network Data: The Level of Alters and Ties
  • Ethics in Personal Network Research.