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Thisedition of Bourgois's ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America adds a prologue describing changes in the 1990s that have altered life on the streets of East Harlem. A new epilogue brings up to date the stories of the dealers and denizens who readers come to know.

Classic Readings and New Directions in Egocentric Analysis. Sociology, Sociology general, Research methods in sociology and criminology

Sociology, Political sociology, Research methods in politics

Students, software designers, and everyday users will explore and understand guilds in virtual worlds, cyber collectives in real-world settings, social movements in online media, wikis, digital government, and citizen social science. This book outlines the research methods, theories, history, and functions of Internet society.

Innovative study examining how relationships and personal networks evolve throughout life, and how these connect individuals and society.

The textbook on analysis and visualization of social networks that integrates theory, applications, and professional software for performing network analysis. Pajek software and datasets for all examples are freely available, so the reader can learn network analysis by doing it. Each chapter offers case studies for practicing network analysis.

This is the first ethnographic study of al-Muhajiroun, a European activist network implicated in terrorist attacks and sending fighters to the Islamic State. Drawing on extensive field research, the author explores the motives of young Britons who joined al-Muhajiroun, how they radicalized, and the reasons many decided to leave.

Egocentric network analysis is used widely across the social, information, and health sciences. Until now, there has been no single reference for researchers seeking guidance on best practice in egocentric network analysis. This book fills this gap, synthesizing a diverse and diffuse body of knowledge on this method and its applications.

Political revolutions, economic meltdowns, mass ideological conversions and collective innovation adoptions occur often; nevertheless, when they happen, they tend to be the least expected. Taking as evidence two Middle Eastern uprisings, as well as behavioural experiments of collective risk-taking, Hassanpour offers an explanation based on a novel paradigm of 'leading from the periphery'.

For scholars of comparative politics, political sociology and network analysis, Cheol-Sung Lee's account introduces the notion of 'embedded cohesiveness' in order to develop an explanatory model in which labor-civic solidarity and union-political party alliance jointly account for outcomes of welfare state retrenchment as well as welfare state expansion.

Social Sequence Analysis is a comprehensive guide to analytic methods for scientists who are interested in studying sequenced social processes. This book is ideal for teachers of both undergraduate and graduate courses, and as a reference for researchers at all levels who are inexperienced in social sequence analysis.

Mobilizing Poor Voters describes and explains the emergence, maintenance, and disappearance of political, partisan, and social networks. Using data gathered through field research in Argentina, this book explains why candidates use clientelistic strategies to mobilize poor voters. Scholars studying clientelism, political parties, poverty, and democratic consolidation will find this book useful.

Sean F. Everton focuses on how social network analysis can be used to craft strategies to track, destabilize and disrupt covert, illegal networks. He illustrates these methods using worked examples from four different social network analysis software packages (UCINET, NetDraw, Pajek and ORA).

On Scandal is the first general and comprehensive analysis of a ubiquitous moral phenomenon. Taking up wide-ranging cases, Ari Adut shows when wrong-doings generate scandals and when they do not. He also applies the lens of scandal to address many puzzles and questions about public life, politics, art, and culture.

Drawing on primary historical material, The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation, provides a historical overview of decision making and political struggle within one of America's largest and most important corporations, General Motors. The book illustrates how GM intentionally violated the fundamental axioms of efficient organization put forth by analysts.

In this book, Zeev Maoz offers a new theory of networked international politics, viewing the evolution of international relations over the last two centuries as a set of interacting, cooperative and conflicting networks of states. He tests his theory by applying social networks analysis (SNA) methods to international relations.

This book brings social influence network theory to bear on lines of research in the domain of small group dynamics concerned with changes of group members' positions on an issue, including the formation of a consensus and of settled disagreement, via endogenous interpersonal influences, in which group members are responding to the displayed positions of the members of the group.

This book brings a social networks perspective to bear on topics of leadership, decision-making, turnover, organisational crises, organisational culture, and other major organisational behaviour topics. It offers a new direction for organisational behaviour theory and research by drawing from social network ideas.

This book describes how a network of interpersonal influence can operate to form agreeements among persons who occupy different positions in a group or organization. It presents an account of consensus formation that is unique in its integration of work from the fields of social psychology and sociology concerned with group dynamics and social structures.

The book provides a detailed study of the software industry in Ireland, of the state policies that promoted it, the political institutions which made that possible and of how similar institutions have been central to other high-tech regions in Taiwan, Israel and elsewhere.

In this book, the author proposes an interesting approach to the study of social structure, presenting a conceptualization of the processes of societal formation by drawing on developments in the physical, biological and cognitive sciences.

This book traces the evolution of Japan's network economy during the twentieth century, concluding that relationships are still central to the Japanese way of business, but are much more subordinated to the strategies of individual enterprises than the Japanese network economy of the past.

Combining sociological insights in organizations with cultural history, this book explores networks of performing arts, tea ceremony and haiku, the politics of kimono aesthetics, the rise of commercial publishing, the popularization of etiquette and manners, the vogue for androgyny in kabuki performance, and the rise of tacit modes of communication.

Using network models from graph theory, this book analyses the formation of Pacific island empires, the social basis of dialect groups, the emergence of economic and political centres, the evolution and devolution of social stratification and the evolution of kinship terminologies, marriage systems and descent groups from common historical prototypes.

This book examines how industrial production in Germany was conditioned by social, political, and regional factors from the seventeenth century to the present. The argument focuses on small and medium sized firms, and suggests that Germany does not have a single coherent national system of industrial governance.

An ethnographic study of the role of personal ties between private entrepreneurs and local officials in China's emerging market economy, this book is based upon fieldwork in Xiamen City, Fujian, one of China's five special economic zones.

Between Politics and Markets examines how the decline of central planning in post-Mao China was related to the rise of two markets - an economic market for the exchange of products and factors, and a political market for the diversion to private interests of state assets and authorities.

Social Capital explains the importance of using social connections and social relations in achieving goals. Social capital, or resources accessed through such connections and relations, is critical (along with human capital, or what a person or organization actually possesses) in achieving goals for individuals, social groups, organizations, and communities.

Philippa Pattison presents a number of algebraic models for the analysis of network data in the social sciences and explains the rationale behind the algebraic approach.

This book illustrates a set of tools - story grammars, relational data models, and network models - that can be profitably used for the collection, organization, and analysis of narrative data in socio-historical research (e.g. narratives of strikes, demonstrations, lynching, riots).