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Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems: Process Models of a Turkish Nomad Clan (Paperback)

by Douglas R. White (Author), Ulla Johansen (Author)

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Using network visualization and the study of the dynamics of marriage choices, Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems expands the theory of social practice to show how changes in the structure of a society's kinship network affect the development of social cohesion over time. Using the genealogical networks of a Turkish nomad clan, authors Douglas White and Ulla Johansen explore how changes in network cohesion are revealed to be indicative of key processes of social change.

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Paperback: 544 pages
Publisher: Lexington Books (October 28, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0739118927
ISBN-13: 978-0739118924
Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.7 x 1.2 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars Review of White and Johanson--Network Analysis, May 6, 2005

By	Murray J. Leaf (Plano, Texas) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems: Process Models of a Turkish Nomad Clan (Hardcover)

White and Johansen's "network analysis" is entirely different from the "network analysis" that was a rage for a while in the 1960s and 70s. In the 1960's many anthropologists and sociologists looked for "social structure" as a unitary system that encompassed and controlled people in society. When they could not find any real phenomenon that fit this description they shifted from the idea that society was a "structure" to the idea that it was a "network," creating what they called "network analysis." Network analysis in that sense, like "structural analysis" and "structural functional analysis" before it, was simply description "as if," and the basic problem was that it was wrong. Society is not a network any more than it is a structure. The metaphor added nothing but a false sense of coherence, easily deflated by closer inspection.

Network analysis as White has been developing it and as he and Johansen apply it here is not based on a common sense image of a net but on formal graph theory. Nor is it just one technique or method developed on this basis but a whole armamentarium of them, united under a system of general and powerful conceptions of social organization as such. It is such an enormous advance over what anthropologists called network analysis in the 1960s and 70s that it is almost a type of negative advertising to call it by the same name, yet there is a connection. White and Johansen actually deliver what those earlier analyses only promised-and then they keep on going.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Network Analysis for Comparative Politics, July 28, 2005

By	T. Martin Doyle (Riverside, California) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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The White and Johansen approach to "network analysis" provides the framework for unparalleled examination of sub-national political behavior. This tool for nonlinear dynamic analysis encourages detailed assessment of highly decentralized self-organizing local governance structures otherwise unavailable through state level scrutiny. Those involved in the study of comparative politics will come to appreciate the meticulous findings exacted through use of this "network" construction. Additionally, examining the interaction of inter-governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, or transnational advocacy networks with state government infrastructure becomes far more precise, compliments of White and Johansen.

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