The next batch of readings...

Here is the next group of readings, including some referred to in the posts below....

Structural holes, embeddedness and triad closure

R. Burt. 1995.  Structural Holes:  The Social Structure of Competition. Belknap Press. 8-49.

M. Granovetter. 1973. “The Strength of Weak Ties.” American Journal of Sociology 78: 1360-80.

P. DiMaggio and H. Louch. 1998. “Socially Embedded Consumer Transactions:  For What Kinds of Purchases Do People Most Often Use Networks?” American Sociological Review 63:  619-637.

Chapter 3:  Strong and Weak Ties

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/networks-book-ch03.pdf

Networks as capital

Coleman, J.S. (1988). Social capital in the creation of human capital. American Journal of Sociology, 94:S95-S120.

Burt, R.S. (2004). Structural holes and good ideas. American Journal of Sociology, 110(2):349-399.

Christakis and Fowler:  chapter 3.

Networks as graphs

Easley and Kleinberg, Chapter 2:  Graphs

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/networks-book-ch02.pdf

S. Borgatti. 1994.  “A Quorum of Graph Theoretic Concepts.”  Connections 17(1):  47-49.