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***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** 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 > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Conversation: SNA is not a method > Subject: Re: SNA is not a method > > ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** > > 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 > > ________________________________ > > From: Social Networks Discussion Forum on behalf of Barry Wellman > Sent: Thu 05/01/2006 18:15 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: SNA is not a method > > > > ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** > > 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 > _____________________________________________________________________ > > Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director > wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman > > Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto > 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 > To network is to live; to live is to network > _____________________________________________________________________ > > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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. > > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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. _____________________________________________________________________ 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.