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- 14 -A Proposed Dictionaryof Network Analysis TerminologyGrace AndersonWe urgently need a dictionary of network terminology, for there is no standardization of termswithin our discipline . It is therefore proposed that we compile one with your assistance in the nearfuture . If you have published, or circulated (even in mimeograph format) any books, papers or articles,kindly sort out your definitions and send them in . They should be typed or printed on a 5"x 3" (12-1/2 x 7-1/2 cm) card as per the following examples :CLOSE-KNIT"I use the word 'close-knit' to describea network in which there are manyrelationships among the component units . . .Strictly speaking, 'close-knit' shouldread 'close-knit relative to the networksof other research families .' "Bott, Elizabeth . Family and SocialNetwork : Roles, Norms and ExternalRelationships in Ordinary Urban Families .New York : The Free Press, 1957,1971, p .59INTENSITY"The intensity of a link in a personal networkrefers to the degree to which individualsare prepared to honour obligations, or feelfree to exercise the rights implied in theirlink to some other person ."Mitchell, J . Clyde, in J . Clyde Mitchell, ed .,Social Networks in Urban Situations : Analysesof Personal Relationships in Central AfricanTowns . Manchester, England : Manchester UniversityPress, 1969, p .34 .On the reverse side of the card write :Submitted by(Your name and address)Send your own definitions to :Prof . Grace M . Anderson (Network Dictionary)Department of Sociology & Anthropology,Wilfrid Laurier University,Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3C5The onus is upon you for inclusion of theterms, as you utilize them, in this dictionary .Overseas researchers should send their materialby airmail .*EACH DEFINITION IS TO BE WRITTEN ON A SEPARATE CARDRESEARCH REPORTSThe Study of InterorganizationalInformation Flow(Reprinted by permission fromSystemsletter ; Rolf Wigand, ed .)Drs . Wolfgang Bick and Paul J . Muller . both with the Institute for Applied Social Research . Universityof Cologne (Greinstrasse 2, D-5000 Koln 41, West Germany) report about a long range project studying theinterorganizational flow of information .This study is part of a project on information systems and information behaviour which started inAugust 1975 and will be completed in January 1978 . The central topic of the project is the representationof everyday life in formal organizations, especially the quality and validity of data collected byformal organizations (process-produced data) . The project is divided into three problem areas : informationbehaviour in the networks of interpersonal relations, linkage of citizens with urban bureaucracies,and inter-organizational relationships .Interorganizational information flows will be analyzed within the networks of institutions in theurban setting of Cologne . The texture of information flows is conceived as structured by sectors,linkage institutions and gate keepers ; the web of institutions is conceptionalized as partially integratedsectors, i .e . interlocked by linkage institutions .
. . . Research Reports, cont'dIn autumn 1976 a survey of municipal servants in Cologne was started and analyse their informationbehaviour and ways of collecting and validating informations received from citizens and other municipalagencies will be studied . The data will be analyzed by multidimensional scaling procedures, clusteringalgorithms, and network analysis . The multigraphs defined by the flows of different kinds of informationwill be analyzed by block models .During the last months, Drs . Bick and Muller have conducted a secondary analysis of communicationdata among 64 municipal agencies broken down by some 250 subdivisions of the municipal administration ofthe city of Nurnberg . Some 4000 civil servants participated in the study which was originally plannedfor answering organizational problems . The interorganizational relationships have been analyzed bymultidimensional scaling, cluster analysis and the network program SOCK . The hypothesis of the administrativenetwork as a system of integrated zones of dense interactions was confirmed . The structuralattributes of a system will be used for additional explanations of the quality of process-produced data .Analysis of Social NetworksIn 1977 a group of social scientists started a research project for the analysis of social networkssupported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) . The project is designedfor a period of 5 years . Its general objective is to develop methods for the analysis of social networksand to show the applicability of the network approach to a wide range of substantive impiricalproblems . There are five working groups :Aachen : Hubert Feger and collaborators, Rheinisch- Duisburg :,Hans-J . Hummel and collaborators,West-falische Technische Hochschule AachenGesamthochschule DuisburgKramerstr . 20/34, Lotharstr . 65D-5100 Aachen, W-Germany D-4100 Duisburg 1, W-GermanyMannheim : Franz U . Pappi and collaborators, Vienna : Rolf Ziegler and collaboratorsSentrum fur Umfragen, Methoden andUniversitat WienAnalysen, D-6800 Mannheim, Alserstr . 33B2,1, W-GermanyA-1080 Wien, AustriaWuppertal : Wolfgang Sodeur and collaborators,Gesamthochschule WuppertalMax Horkheimerstr . 21D-5600 Wuppertal 1, W-GermanyIn the first year (1977) the group concentrated on the following topics :a) Theoretical concepts for network analysisb) Methods of data collection in network analysisc) Mathematical models and methods for network analysisd) Computer programs for network analysise) Applications of network analysis in different researchOf course it was not possible to cover the whole field and to give a complete overview of what is goingon in network research . The following list of working papers will give a more precise picture of whatwas actually done . These working papers contain the first results of an attempt to set up a trendreporton network analysis, which will be completed and updated in the coming years . Though Englishtitles are given one must point out that all papers are written in German .ad a) Hummell, H .J . : Description and explanation of structures of voluntary interpersonal relationsby means of the Davis-Holland-Leinhardt-models, Duisburg, September 1977 .ad b) Bien, W . : Methods of data collection in small group research, Aachen, September 1977 .ad c) Bien, W . and M . Lubber : Quantitative sociometry : Problems and methods, Aachen, September 1977 .Feger, H . : The application of clique-detecting and cluster analytic methods for the analysisof social structures, Aachen, September 1977 .Bien, W . : Multidimensional scaling, Aachen, September 1977 .Guillot, G . and H . Feger : The statistical significance of cluster-analytic results, Aachen,September 1977 .
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