A Brief Overview of Social Network Analysis and its Current State within Romanian Sociology

• Authors: Marian-Gabriel Hâncean
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The field of social network studies has been growing within the last 40 years, gathering scholars from a wide range of disciplines (biology, chemistry, geography, international relations, mathematics, political sciences, sociology etc.) and covering diverse substantive research topics. Using Google metrics, the scientific production within the field it is shown to follow an ascending trend since the late 60s. Within the Romanian sociology, social network analysis is still in his early spring, network studies being low in number and rather peripheral. This note gives a brief overview of social network analysis and makes some short references to the current state of the network studies within Romanian sociology

Keywords

EN

adaption; capitalization; coordination; Romanian sociology; social cohesion; social network analysis

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: International Review of Social Research
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 5-11

Dates

published

2013-10-01

online

2015-05-06

Contributors

author

Marian-Gabriel Hâncean

• Department of Sociology University of Bucharest

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/irsr-2013-0017