Social network | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 27/06/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network


00:01:23 1 Overview
00:02:49 2 History
00:06:05 3 Levels of analysis
00:07:13 3.1 Micro level
00:09:14 3.2 Meso level
00:12:27 3.3 Macro level
00:13:57 4 Theoretical links
00:14:07 4.1 Imported theories
00:14:30 4.2 Indigenous theories
00:15:24 5 Structural holes
00:16:56 6 Research clusters
00:17:05 6.1 Communication
00:17:40 6.2 Community
00:18:22 6.3 Complex networks
00:18:51 6.4 Criminal networks
00:19:25 6.5 Diffusion of innovations
00:19:55 6.6 Demography
00:20:23 6.7 Economic sociology
00:21:17 6.8 Health care
00:21:43 6.9 Human ecology
00:22:12 6.10 Language and linguistics
00:22:42 6.11 Literary networks
00:23:21 6.12 Organizational studies
00:24:05 6.13 Social capital
00:25:06 6.14 Network position and benefits
00:27:41 6.15 Social media



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A social network  is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors. The social network perspective provides a set of methods for analyzing the structure of whole social entities as well as a variety of theories explaining the patterns observed in these structures. The study of these structures uses social network analysis to identify local and global patterns, locate influential entities, and examine network dynamics.
Social networks and the analysis of them is an inherently interdisciplinary academic field which emerged from social psychology, sociology, statistics, and graph theory. Georg Simmel authored early structural theories in sociology emphasizing the dynamics of triads and "web of group affiliations". Jacob Moreno is credited with developing the first sociograms in the 1930s to study interpersonal relationships. These approaches were mathematically formalized in the 1950s and theories and methods of social networks became pervasive in the social and behavioral sciences by the 1980s. Social network analysis is now one of the major paradigms in contemporary sociology, and is also employed in a number of other social and formal sciences. Together with other complex networks, it forms part of the nascent field of network science.