Module SSI3001 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
SSI3001: Introduction to Social Network Analysis
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:
- Topic 1: Introduction
- Topic 2: Centrality
- Topic 3: Measures of Network Structure
- Topic 4: Social Capital
- Topic 5: Block Models and Structural Equivalence
- Topic 6: Basic Network Statistics
- Topic 7: Brief overview of advanced techniques
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
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22 | 128 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | 22 | 11 x 2 hour sessions of lectures and demonstration |
Guided independent study | 128 | Time spent individually undertaking data analysis for exercises, final assignment |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Hanneman, Robert A. and Mark Riddle. 2005. Introduction to social network methods. Riverside, CA: University of California, Riverside (published in digital form at http://faculty.ucr.edu/~hanneman/)
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Borgatti, Stephen P., Martin G. Everett, and Jeffrey C. Johnson. Analyzing social networks. SAGE Publications Limited, 2013.
Scott, John, and Peter J. Carrington. The SAGE handbook of social network analysis. SAGE publications, 2011.
Bonacich, P., and Lu, P. (2012). Introduction to Mathematical Sociology
Borgatti, S. P., Mehra, A., Brass, D. J., and Labianca, G. (2009). Network analysis in the social sciences. science, 323(5916), 892-895.
Crossley, N., Bellotti, E., Edwards, G., Everett, M. G., Koskinen, J., and Tranmer, M. (2017). Social Network Analysis for Ego-Nets.