Università degli studi di Salerno
Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche
Laboratorio di Ricerca e Formazione Avanzata in Statistica
ARS ‘07
Analisi delle Reti Sociali:
per conoscere uno strumento
uno strumento per conoscere
Salerno 30 Novembre 2007
Models of Knowledge and Models of Data:
Social Network Analysis between
Mathematical Relations and Social Relations
Alfredo Givigliano
Department of Philosophy - University of Calabria
[email protected]
Steps
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The framework
•
Levels of reality and dimensions of knowledge
•
Models and Social Networks
•
Languages, Data, Relations
•
Borders among data and networks
•
Dimensions, processes, spaces
The Framework
Formal
Dimension
Logic
Contextual
Dimension
Models
Representations
Social Relations
Morphological
Dimension
Constraints
Possibilities
Principles
Ontological
Dimension
Spatial and
Temporal
Extension
Dynamical
Structures
Genesic
Dimension
Inference
Mechanisms
Social Networks
Givigliano A., 2007, Cerchi, barche, campi. Relazioni sociali e Social Networks Analysis, in Salvini A. (ed.),
2007, Analisi delle reti sociali. Teoria, metodi, applicazioni, Franco Angeli, Milano, pp. 81-118, p. 87.
Levels of Reality and Dimensions of Knowledge
World of Social Relations
Dialogicity
Recursion Hologrammaticity
Complexity
Reality
Emergence
Processuality
Subjects
Relations
Structures
World of Mathematical Relations
Ontological Problem
Logical Problem
Models and Social Networks
Model
Description of the concept
Use of the term
Analysis
by
of
Social Networks
Models and Social Networks
Use of the term
•
•
•
•
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Normative
Figurative
Mental
Analogical
Mathematical
Description of the concept
•
•
Mechanic view of the world and of the
scientific discourse
Model based view of the world and of
the scientific discourse
Social Networks
Social Meaning
in constructing
Model / Reality
Sets of Positions
Real determination of social processes
of
Mathematical
Analogical
Diagrammatical
Subjects in the Social Space
Languages, Data, Relations
Sociology
Mathematics
Sociological
Theory
Social Relations
Become
represented as
Mathematical
Relations
Mathematics
Mathematical
Theory
Sociology
Sociological
Theory
Mathematical
Relations co-determine
Social Relations
explicite
the rapports in
Borders among Data and Networks
inside
Relational Data
Sets of Social Relations
Social Network Analysis
in function of
borders
Constraints
Lamont M., Molnár V., 2002,
The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences,
in “Ann. Rev. Sociol.”, 28, pp. 167-195.
Symbolic Boundaries
Social Boundaries
Possibilities
Dimensions, Processes, Spaces
World of Social Relations
Reality
Johnson C., Gilles R. P., 2000,
Spatial social networks,
in “Review of Economic Design”, 5, pp. 273-299.
Subjects
Relations
Structures
World of Mathematical Relations
Willer R., 2007,
The Role of Metanetworks in Network Evolution,
in “Journal of Mathematical Sociology”, 31, pp. 101-119.
Università degli studi di Salerno
Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche
Laboratorio di Ricerca e Formazione Avanzata in Statistica
ARS ‘07
Analisi delle Reti Sociali:
per conoscere uno strumento
uno strumento per conoscere
Salerno 30 Novembre 2007
Models of Knowledge and Models of Data:
Social Network Analysis between
Mathematical Relations and Social Relations
Alfredo Givigliano
Department of Philosophy - University of Calabria
[email protected]