SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Incidence Matrix, Adjacency Matrix, Sun Belt Conference
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Today"s outline: the development of social network analysis, types of social networks, whole vs. ego, directed vs. undirected, binary vs. valued, one mode vs. two-mode. = abstract theory, specific little methods, nothing bridging the gap = we need middle. In his book, freeman provides an idiographic account of how that happened! Idiographic account means an explanation which is meant to explain one particular case of something, because it will explain one thing, it will have a lot of rich detail specific to that case! In this account we talk about details of the specific case. Nomothetic account or explanation is the opposite which is supposed to describe a class of things how do academic fields develop? . Ex: as laws become more complex, as society becomes more litigious, people demand more lawyers, more demand = higher wage = more attractive for people as a career. Freeman provides idiographic account of how network analysis developed as a field.
