Full presentations of many of the entries below have already been distributed to BMS subscribers and RC33 members over the BMS-RC33 distribution list
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Phillip Bonacich and Philip Lu, Introduction to Mathematical Sociology, 2012, Princeton University Press, ISBN 9780691145495 (cloth), 9781400842452 (e-book), 240 pp. The social network chapters on “Weak Ties”, “Cliques” and “Centrality” are original in this context, particularly the latter chapter which includes developments of six types of “Centrality”, typically subjects of more advanced books on social network analysis.
Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman, Networked - The New Social Operating System, 2012, MIT Press, ISBN 9780262017190, 376 pp. The “Triple Revolution” of Part 1 provides “the opportunities – and stresses – for people to reach beyond the world of tight groups”, gives people “communications power and information-gathering capacities that dwarf those of the past”, and has allowed information and communication technologies (ICTs) “to become body appendages allowing people to access friends and information at will”.
Pascal Marchand et Pierre Ratinaud, Etre français aujourd'hui - Les mots du « grand débat sur l’identité nationale », 2012, Editions Les liens qui libèrent, ISBN 9782918597490, 317 pp. Le « Grand débat sur l’identité nationale », c’est 18.240 contributions, d’une richesse exceptionnelle, qui sont décrites et analysées dans cet ouvrage par Pascal Marchand et Pierre Ratinaud.
H. Russell Bernard, Social Research Methods - Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches, Second Edition, 2012, Sage Publications, ISBN 9781412978545, 768 pp. As with the previous edition, this book explains and demonstrates to students when to use and how to apply the quantitative and qualitative techniques that they'll need to do their own social research.
Jörg Blasius and Victor Thiessen, Assessing the Quality of Survey Data, 2012, Sage Publications, ISBN 9781849203326, 192 pp. This book is the first of a series sponsored by RC33, “Research Methods for Social Scientists” (see the RC33 Newsletter in this issue of the BMS).
