NETWORK ANALYSIS: THEORY AND METHODS

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Instructors:  Ann McCranie, Sociology, Indiana University; Stanley Wasserman, Statistics, Indiana University; Bernice Pescosolido, Sociology, Indiana University
Dates: July 6 – 10, 2009
Location: Bloomington, Indiana; Co-sponsored by the Bureau of Social Science Research, the Karl F. Schuessler Institute for Social Research, and the Department of Political Science, Indiana University.

The Schuessler Institute for Social Research serves as the local host for this workshop, offered through the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Program.  This workshop covers the theory and methods of network analysis. Unlike the Summer Program's other introductory workshops on social network analysis, this course covers not only methodology, but also theoretical concerns and substantive backgrounds of network studies. It is designed for students, faculty, and other researchers in the social and behavioral sciences who are interested in learning how to translate theoretical conceptualizations of networks into empirical practice. Morning and afternoon sessions are coordinated so that each day presents theoretical, historical and substantive developments in the field with parallel issues and examples in data and analytic techniques. Workshop participants apply those techniques in late afternoon, computer lab sessions.
The workshop will meet each day from 8:30 a.m. until 6:00 p.m., with a break for lunch.

Registration is available through the ICPSR Summer Program website: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog/2009/index.html.

Enrollment in this course is limited.