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Yes, I agree. Loet
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> " It seems to me that we all agree that SNA is a strong tool
> for the analysis of structure in data, but that the dynamics
> ("change") require additional methodologies. The best one can
> do with SNA is comparative statics."
>
> I don't think this is so. There are continuous time models
> for network dynamics. They include the work that Tom Snijders
> and his group have been doing so ingeniously for the better
> part of a decade.
>
>
> Garry
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> Sent: Thursday, 11 January 2007 9:43 PM
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> Subject: Re: Networks and conformity
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> Dear Emanuela, Ryan, and colleagues,
>
> It seems to me that we all agree that SNA is a strong tool
> for the analysis
> of structure in data, but that the dynamics ("change")
> require additional
> methodologies. The best one can do with SNA is comparative statics.
>
> The jump to a cultural narrative as the only alternative is
> too quickly made
> for me. The cultural narrative focuses on the cases which
> happened to occur,
> but not on what might have occurred, i.e., the statistics of the
> development. I suggest that we need a calculus for this and
> information
> theory provides us with this apparatus:
>
> The Static and Dynamic Analysis of Network Data Using
> Information Theory,
> Social Networks 13 (1991) 301-345; at
> http://users.fmg.uva.nl/lleydesdorff/SoNetworks91/SoNetworks91.pdf
>
> Of course, one also needs substantive theories for the
> specification of the
> mechanisms. Cultural studies can be very helpful from this
> perspective.
>
> With best wishes,
>
>
> Loet
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