***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** Dear SOCnetters, Has anyone written or know, the detalied study on social network analysis research criteria. e.g: criteria for stregth of ties, extent of structural holes, blockmodels, redundancy criteria in terms of time spent, number of actors, etc...? I am at the mid - beginning :) of my research path, though, I have come to many, varied ctiteria in terms of these, for some role set is 5 actors around the focal one, for some 8 .. the same works with the stretgth of a link. Could anyone give me a hint? Thanks in advance, Marzena _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.