Exploratory social network analysis with Pajek This is the first textbook on social network analysis integrating theory applications and professional software for performing network analysis (Pajek). Step by step the book introduces the main structural concepts and their applications in social research with exercises to test the understanding. In each chapter each theoretical section is followed by an application section explaining how to perform the network analyses with Pajek software. Pajek software and data sets for all examples are freely available so the reader can learn network analysis by doing it. In addition each chapter offers case studies for practicing network analysis. In the end the reader has the knowledge skills and tools to apply social network analysis in all social sciences ranging from anthropology and sociology to business administration and history Provided by publisher