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Prosperous new years everyone!

I've always thought of SNA more akin to statistics. Many would argue that
statistics suffers from many of these same problems. It involves a set of
tools used by many disciplines and as a result, doesn't really have a
disciplinary home. Yes, I can hear this same conversation happening in that
context.

Is statistics, method? Yes. But is that all it is? No.

Tim

> From: "E.Todeva" <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: "E.Todeva" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:15:48 -0000
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> Conversation: SNA is not a method
> Subject: Re: SNA is not a method
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> Dear Barry,
>
>
>
> Knowing the legacy of your contributions I understand why you would like to
> defend this position. But maybe we need to re-think this.
>
>
>
> What about calling 'Network Analysis' a paradigm that incorporates:
>
> 'social network analysis' with
>
> 'business network analysis',
>
> 'actor-network theory', and other methods / approaches / methodologies for
> network analysis.
>
>
>
> Can we go beyond interconnected human beings, to interconnected organisations
> and business units, and even heterogeneous systems of interconnected people,
> organisations, institutions, assets/resources, technological/cultural
> artefacts... My social capital is not only my social contacts, and I hardly
> could capitalise on all potential social contacts that I have through SOCNET
> (for example).
>
>
>
> Emanuela Todeva
>
> University of Surrey, UK
>
> ________________________________
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> From: Social Networks Discussion Forum on behalf of Barry Wellman
> Sent: Thu 05/01/2006 18:15
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> Subject: SNA is not a method
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> Dear Sergio Romero (and others),
>
> Your homework assignment is to write 100 times:
>
> "Social Network Analysis is not 'a method' but a paradigm.
> A way of looking at the social world and analyzing it."
>
> To see it as only a method is to miss the whole point of SNA.
>
> Barry, INSNA founder
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