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Qualitative Networks

How do we interact with people in our everyday life? Who are the people we are connected to? What are the consequences of overlapping social circles and how people deal with the potential emerging conflicts? What are the structural and cultural mechanisms that regulate social worlds? Network science is a scientific approach to the study of network dependencies and associations which tries to answer these and many other questions. This book explores the underlying mechanisms that regulate social life as they are produced, reproduced, modified and abandoned in the spatial and temporal patterns of interactions. The mixed methods approach, that combines formal network analysis with qualitative materials and statistical tools, shows the importance of contextualising structural mechanisms in their social and cultural environment, and allows overcoming the traditional methodological boundaries that shape the field of social sciences.

Elisa Bellotti is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester and a member of the Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis. Before arriving in Manchester in 2008, she worked as Research Fellow at the University of Turin and the University of Bozen, Italy. She completed a PhD in Sociology and Methodology of Social Research in 2006 at the Catholic University of Milan. She publishes in international peer reviewed journals. Among her recent publications are: Getting funded: Multi-level networks of physicists in Italy (Social Networks, 2012) and the monograph Amicizie. Le reti amicali dei giovani single (Milan: Franco Angeli, 2008).

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Qualitative Networks
Mixed methods in sociological research
Elisa Bellotti

Martin Bulmer is Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey. He is Director of the Question Bank (a WWW resource based at Surrey) in the ESRC Centre for Applied Social Surveys (CASS), a collaboration between the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), the University of Southampton and the University of Surrey. He is also a Director of the departments Institute of Social Research, and an Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences.

Qualitative Networks

Mixed methods in sociological research

Elisa Bellotti

First published 2015
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Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data
Bellotti, Elisa.

Qualitative networks: mixing methods in social research/Elisa Bellotti.
pages cm (Social research today)
1. Social networksResearchMethodology. 2. SociologyResearchMethodology. 3. Social sciencesNetwork analysis. 4. Social sciencesResearchMethodology. I. Title.
HM741.B457 2014
302.3dc23
2014006878

ISBN: 978-0-415-60086-6 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-83712-2 (ebk)

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Contents

We must go about our work and meet the challenges of the day

both in our human relations and our vocation.

But that moral is simple and straightforward

if each person finds and obeys the daemon that holds the thread of his life.

(Weber 2004 [1917]: 31)

This book contains the materials and reflections that I have collected and elaborated since the beginning of my career as a sociologist and as a social network analyst. The interest in the first sprang out of the passion for the second, which I still like to consider like a colourful box of crayons. Many years have passed since I first got introduced to social network analysis by Steve Borgatti at Essex summer school. I was fascinated by this incomprehensible world: I could not understand what a standard deviation was, but the colouring of structural equivalence convinced me that I had found my daemon, the vocation in life that Weber refers to in the epigraph. At Essex I also met Martin Everett, who has been a teacher, a mentor and a good friend since. I am indebted to him for everything I know about this fascinating field, for the invaluable advice, for many years of support and encouragement and for many bottles of wine (that he obviously paid for).

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