Books/Livres

Social Networks

Reda Alhajj and Jon Rokne (editors), Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining, 3 volumes (2014), Springer Verlag, ISBN 9781461461692 (print), 9781461461708 (online), 2,437 pp., available in print, eReference or combined, but three volumes not available separately.

It includes: Karl M. van Meter, “Network Analysis in French Sociology and Anthropology” (8 pages) with sections on: Three US and French Generations of Network Scholars; Early French Social Network Developments; Social Network Analysis Moves Toward the Mainstream; and Moving into the Twenty-First Century and Mixing It Up with the Mainstream.

Springer Reference - Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining now available on SpringerLink. Explains fundamental concepts of social networks and data mining across the disciplines in readable, authoritative entries. Addresses privacy, security, ethical, and civil liberty issues for social networks, and the application of social network methodologies to other domains. Includes methodologies for analysis of constructed networks, data mining techniques and research directions. Take a look inside at http://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8?utm_campaign=CON23385_1&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=email&wt_mc=email.newsletter.2.CON23385.internal_1. The SpringerLink Look inside function offers free access to the sample pages. The first major reference work integrates fundamental concepts and research directions in the areas of social networks and applications to data mining.

Mark Frezzo, The Sociology of Human Rights (2014), Polity Press, 216 pp., ISBN 9780745660110. Of particular interest to our readers will be the sections “Science, Values, and Rights Bundles” (pp. 43-45) and the methodological discussion in “Social Science and Human Values” (pp. 152-154).