Social Networking Analysis

Abstract

A social network indicates relationships between people or organisations and how they are connected through social familiarities. The concept of social network provides a powerful model for social structure, and that a number of important formal methods of social network analysis can be perceived. Social network analysis can be used in studies of kinship structure, social mobility, science citations, contacts among members of nonstandard groups, corporate power, international trade exploitation, class structure and many other areas. A social network structure is made up of nodes and ties. There may be few or many nodes in the networks or one or more different types of relations between the nodes. Building a useful understanding of a social network is to sketch a pattern of social relationships, kinships, community structure, interlocking dictatorships and so forth for analysis.