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Social Networks
Department of Sociology
University of California, Irvine
2004-05
Overview and History
The University of California at Irvine is home to one of the premier research groups in the expanding field of social networks. With faculty in Sociology, Anthropology, Economics, Criminology, Law, and Society, Information and Computer Sciences, and the Graduate School of Management, UCI maintains a large and diverse community of network researchers with a wide range of substantive interests. The School of Social Sciences has had a Graduate Program in Social Networks for 20 years (it has granted 46 Ph.D.s since the mid 1980s). With an active community and numerous opportunities for research collaborations, UCI is an ideal place to study social networks. The Sociology Department is the hub of social network activity at UCI. We offer coherent graduate training in social networks, with a field specialization in social networks, and a core curriculum covering theoretical foundations, methodological approaches, and substantive applications. We also host a regular colloquium series and weekly network research meetings where graduate students and faculty discuss their on-going research projects. Graduate training in the field is supported by faculty in several departments and the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences. Current social network research by faculty and graduate students covers a wide array of substantive topics, including: networks of responders to disasters; socio-spatial features of networks in high crime neighborhoods; effects of economic and social transformations on kinship and support networks in rural villages; social networks of immigrants; global city networks; international trade networks; and homophily in professional networks, to name a few. UCI is home to the flagship journal in the field, Social Networks , with Lin Freeman as editor. In recent years the social network group has hosted a number of special events including the Summer 2004 symposium entitled "Current Research on Network Comparison." (sponsored by IMBS) and the annual one-day Workshop on Social Network Analysis for UCI graduate students . UCI is co-sponsor and program organizer for the XXV International Sunbelt Social Network Conference to be held in February 2005 in Redondo Beach.
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Nina Bandelj
economic sociology, organizations, culture, social networks, comparative sociology, central and eastern Europe |
Matt Huffman
race/gender inequality, labor markets, organizations |
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Susan Brown
immigration, inequality,
urban
sociology
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Calvin Morrill
organizations, law & society, culture, youth, qualitative field methods |
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Carter Butts
mathematical sociology, social networks, quantitative methodology, human judgment and decision making, economic sociology |
Andrew Noymer*
demography, health, networks |
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David Smith
world systems analysis, urbanization, development, comparative-historical sociology, dependent development in East Asia |
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Lin Freeman
social networks, social structure and cognition, methodology |
Judy Stepan-Norris
labor unions, sociology of work, political sociology, American society, research methods
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* Cluster coordinator
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OTHER SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT FACULTY
WITH INTERESTS IN SOCIAL NETWORKS |
Joy Pixley
life course, work and family, sex stratification, gender roles, research design
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David Snow
collective behavior and social movements, social psychology, urban, social problems, culture and qualitative methods
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OTHER UCI FACULTY WITH INTERESTS IN SOCIAL NETWORKS |
William Batchelder, Cognitive Science
Robert Beck, Education
John P. Boyd, Anthropology
Victoria Basolo, Urban and Regional Planning
Michael Burton, Anthropology
Michael McBride, Economics
Bonnie Nardi, Information and Computer Science
David Obstfeld, Graduate School of Management
A. Kimball Romney, Anthropology
Karen Rook, Psychology and Social Behavior
Padhraic Smyth, Information and Computer Science
Brian Skyrms, Logic and Philosophy of Science
Mark Steyvers, Cognitive Science
George Tita, Criminology, Law, and Society
Douglas White, Anthropology
FIELD EXAMS & GRADUATE COURSES
The Department of Sociology offers a field specialization in social networks, including a core curriculum leading to the field exam. Core courses are taught annually or biannually, with additional electives available both inside and outside the department.
Core courses:
Introductory Network Seminar (Fall Quarter)
Social Network Theory (Winter Quarter)
Analysis of Social Network Data or Analysis of Relational Data (Spring Quarter)
Graduate Courses in Social Networks
2001-2002
Winter
• Soc 229 Social Network Methods (Faust)
• Soc Sci 249 Special Topics, Social Networks (White)
Spring
• Anth 22A Analysis of Relational Data (Romney)
2002– 2003
Fall
• Soc 229 Special Topics, Social Networks (Freeman)
Winter
• Soc 229 Network Theory (Bienenstock)
• Anth 289 Network Theories of Social Structure (White)
Spring
• Soc 259 Analysis of Social Network Data (Faust and Boyd)
• Soc 259 Interaction Models (Boyd)
• Anth 222A Analysis of Relational Data (Romney)
2003 – 2004
Fall
• Soc 229 Special Topics, Social Networks and Groups (Freeman)
Winter
• Soc 219 Social Network Theory (Butts)
Spring
• Anth 222A Analysis of Relational Data (Romney)
2004 – 2005
Fall
• Soc 229 Social Network Analysis, Theory and Data (Freeman)
Winter
• Soc 219 Social Network Theory (Butts)
Spring
• Soc 229 Networks and Organizations (Butts)
• Soc 259 Analysis of Relational Data (Faust)
Social Network Field Exam Reading List
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