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<p>This new edition of The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis builds on the success of its predecessor, offering a comprehensive overview of social network analysis produced by leading international scholars in the field.</p> <p>Brand new chapters provide both significant updates to topics covered in the first edition, as well as discussing cutting edge topics that have developed since, including new chapters on: </p> <p>- General issues such as social categories and computational social science;</p> <p>- Applications in contexts such as environmental policy, gender, ethnicity, cognition and social media and digital networks;</p> <p>- Concepts and methods such as centrality, blockmodeling, multilevel network analysis, spatial analysis, data collection, and beyond.</p> <p>By providing authoritative accounts of the history, theories and methodology of various disciplines and topics, the second edition of The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis is designed to provide a state-of-the-art presentation of classic and contemporary views, and to lay the foundations for the further development of the area.</p> <p></p> <p>PART 1: GENERAL ISSUES</p> <p>PART 2: APPLICATIONS</p> <p>PART 3: CONCEPTS AND METHODS</p>