Suppose you were given two qualitative studies: one is a piece of empirically sound social
science and the other, though interesting and beautifully written, is not. How would you tell …

Almost a century of systematic anthropological research on pastoral nomads has produced
significant data and theory for understanding these mobile societies. Substantially less …

Uncompromising wars, revolution, rights movements, and today's global terrorism are in part
driven by “devoted actors” who adhere to sacred, transcendent values that generate actions …

International relations research has regarded networks as a particular mode of organization,
distinguished from markets or state hierarchies. In contrast, network analysis permits the …

This study uses social network analysis to examine distributed leadership in work teams. We
used sociometric data from 28 field-based sales teams to investigate how the network …

Most sociological theories consider murder an outcome of the differential distribution of
individual, neighborhood, or social characteristics. And while such studies explain variation …

Entrepreneurial groups face a twinned challenge: recognizing and implementing new ideas.
We argue that entrepreneurship is less about importing ideas than about generating new …

Social Networks: An Introduction is the first textbook that combines new with still-valuable
older methods and theories. Designed to be a core text for graduate (and some …

This is Book 2 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition. Initiating Ethnographic
Research: A Mixed Methods Approach, is the first book of its kind. Unlike texts that describe …

This paper discusses the application of the kind of formal network methods more commonly
used in sociology to historical materials and especially to rural history. It addresses …