Sampling Effects in Social Network Analysis

Synonyms

Network sampling; Nonlinearity; Phase transition; Social networks

Glossary

Social Actor:

An entity with the ability to create or nullify social relations

Social Relation:

Anything that exists, occurs, or flows between two social actors

Dyad:

A set of two social actors potentially or actually connected by a social relation

Triad:

A set of three social actors all of whom are potentially or actually connected to each other by social relations

First Neighbors:

Social actors who directly connect to each other via a social relation

Second Neighbors:

Social actors who do not directly connect to each other via a social relation but whom both directly connect to the same intermediary

Mth Neighbor:

Social actors who connect to each other via a path consisting of m (but no fewer) social relations involving m, − 1 (but no fewer) intermediaries

Clustering:

The finding, common to social networks, that two social actors who share a common first neighbor have a disproportionately great...