Social Network Analysis (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
Davd Knoke(Ph.D., University of Michigan 1972) coauthored Network Analysis (1982) and has published fifteen books and more than a hundred articles and book chapters, primarily on organizations, networks, politics, and social statistics. He was principal co-investigator on several National Science Foundation-funded projects on voluntary associations, lobbying organizations in national policy domains, and organizational surveys of diverse establishments. A current project on the Global Information Sector examines strategic alliance network evolution among international corporations. At Minnesota, he teaches a graduate network analysis seminar that attracts students from diverse disciplines.Song Yang (Ph.D., University of Minnesota 2002) authored Investigating Job Training Programs in U.S. Organizations (2003) and published 15 articles and book chapters on issues related to work and workplaces, and social network analysis. He is working on sveral proposals to study various Human Resources (HR) policies and programs in Chinese organizations, focusing on emergent stratification structures and underpinning factors behind those stratification. He teaches methodology and statistics to both graduate and undergraduate students at Arkansas.