Sociologists, other social scientists, mathematicians, and management scholars provide an overview of the social network analysis paradigm, summarizing its history, theory, methods, and applications to various substantive areas where cutting-edge research is being conducted. In sections on general issues, substantive topics, and concepts and methods, they consider such topics as social physics and social networks, social networks in economics, social support, the political dimensions of corporate connections, concepts and measures in basic network analysis, and exponential random graph models for social networks. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)