Analyzing Affiliation Networks
Stephen P.
Borgatti and Daniel S.
Halgin
LINKS Center for Social Network Analysis
Gatton College of Business and Economics
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506 USA
In social network analysis, the term “affiliations”...
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Analyzing Affiliation Networks
Stephen P.
Borgatti and Daniel S.
Halgin
LINKS Center for Social Network Analysis
Gatton College of Business and Economics
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506 USA
In social network analysis, the term “affiliations” usually refers to membership or participation data, such
as when we have data on which actors have participated in which events.
Often, the assumption is that comembership in groups or events is an indicator of an underlying social tie.
For example, Davis Gardner
and Gardner (1941) used data provided by the society pages of a local newspaper to uncover distinct
social circles among a set of society women.
Similarly, Domhoff (1967) and others have used comembership in corporate boards to search for social elites (e.
g.
, Allen, 1974; Carroll, Fox and Ornstein,
1982; Galaskiewicz, 1985; Westphal and Khanna, 2003).
Alternatively, we can see co-participation as
providing opportunities for social ties to develop, which in turn provide o
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