Christopher McCarty, Miranda J. Lubbers, Raffaele Vacca, and José Luis Molina.
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New York :
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The Guilford Press,
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[2019]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (xviii, 269 pages)
SERIES
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Methodology in the social sciences
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Cover; Half Title Page; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright; Series Editor's Note; Prologue; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1. Introduction; What Is This Chapter About?; 1.1 Everyone Has a Personal Network; 1.2 The Size, Composition, and Structure of Personal Networks; 1.3 Egos, Alters, Egocentric Networks, and Sociocentric Networks; 1.4 Should I Use Personal Network or Whole Network Analysis?; Box -- Combining Personal and Whole Networks; 1.5 Who Is This Book For?; 1.6 Book Overview; Chapter Summary; 2. How Personal Networks Have Been Used So Far; What Is This Chapter About?
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2.1 A Brief History of Personal Network AnalysisThe Manchester School of Anthropology; Box -- The Bott Hypothesis about Conjugal Roles and Social Networks; Box -- Clyde Mitchell and the Manchester School; U.S. Sociology Takes the Baton; Box -- The Small World Experiment; Box -- The East York Studies; Personal Relationships across the Life Course; 2.2 What We Currently Know about Personal Networks; 2.3 Theoretical Frameworks for Effects of Personal Networks on Individual Outcomes; Social Capital; Social Support; Social Influence through Diffusion; 2.4 Final Remarks; Chapter Summary
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5.1 Variables and Research Aims: What Questions to AskBox -- Personal Networks and Social Support: Comparing Two Ethnic Groups in Southern California; 5.2 Levels of Measurement; Box -- Needle-Sharingand Personal Network Correlates; 5.3 Wording a Question; Common Mistakes in Wording Questions; Using Standardized Questions; Open-Ended Questions; Chapter Summary; Further Reading; 6. Delineating Personal Networks: Alter Elicitation; What Is This Chapter About?; 6.1 What Is a Name Generator?; Box -- Contact Lists in Phones and Personal Networks
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Further Reading3. Developing a Research Question; What Is This Chapter About?; 3.1 Research Questions, Hypotheses, and Objectives; 3.2 Outcomes and Social Determinants; 3.3 Real or Perceived?; 3.4 Some Examples of Questions and Hypotheses in Personal Network Research; Personal Networks and Family Roles; Social Support and Health; Risky Behaviors and Infectious Diseases; Mobility, Migration, and Transnationalism; Online Interactions and Social Media; Difficult People, Difficult Ties; Chapter Summary; Further Reading; 4. Getting Started: Selecting a Population, Survey Mode, and Sampling Frames
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What Is This Chapter About?4.1 Deciding Whether Personal Network Analysis Is Appropriate; 4.2 Selecting a Population; Box -- Neighborhood Networks and Status; Box -- Emotional Support and Cognitive Functioning among the Elderly; Box -- Social Support and Smoking in African American Adults; 4.3 The Survey Mode; 4.4 The Sampling Frame; 4.5 Integration with Larger Surveys; 4.6 Identifying Dependent and Explanatory Variables; Box -- Loneliness and Dementia; Box -- Personal Networks and Ethnic Identity; Chapter Summary; Further Reading; 5. Questions about the Ego; What Is This Chapter About?