LINKS, the International Center for Research on Social Networks in Business at the University of Kentucky, offers a Ph.D. in business administration with an emphasis on networks applied to the organizational realm. Our research emphasizes examining organizational behavior and strategy from a network perspective, and our faculty and students publish extensively in the major management journals, in collaboration with the top faculty from international business schools. Students are trained to become faculty at major research-intensive business schools worldwide. Network-oriented faculty include Daniel J. Brass (networks and power, ethics, innovation, technology), Giuseppe "Joe" Labianca (networks and conflict, group social capital), Ajay Mehra (networks and individual agency, personality and networks), Seok-Woo Kwon (social capital and public policy), Leslie Vincent (networks and innovation), and Emery Yao (interorganizational networks and knowledge management). Please visit http://gatton.uky.edu/Programs/PhDBA/ManagementArea.html and contact Joe Labianca (joelabianca@gmail.com) or Dan Brass ( dbrass@uky.edu) to learn more about our Ph.D. program.
The University of California at Irvine is home to one of the premier research groups in the expanding field of social networks. The Sociology Department at UCI offers coherent graduate training in social networks, with a field specialization in social networks and a core curriculum covering theoretical foundations, methodological approaches, and substantive applications. We also host a regular colloquium series and weekly network research meetings where graduate students and faculty discuss their on-going research projects. Graduate training in the field is supported by faculty in several departments and the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences.
The Departments of Anthropology and Sociology jointly offer a concentration in Social Networks that focuses on the patterns or forms of relations that link persons or other social actors together in coherent wholes.
The Department of Sociology at UCLA offers diverse faculty, which provides leadership in most of the significant areas in the discipline. The list of faculty accomplishments in developing social theory, quantitative and qualitative methods, and substantive research is long. A specialization in social network analysis is offered.
The Department of Social and Decision Sciences is an interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate department at Carnegie Mellon's College of Humanities and Social Sciences. The multidisciplinary character of the department provides a unique opportunity for innovative research, as well as a diverse and exciting set of courses.
The Organization Studies Department of Boston College focuses on two main areas of research: organizational change and social networks. The network-oriented faculty include Jean Bartunek (organizational transformation, cognitive schemas), Steve Borgatti (network methodology, knowledge management), Bill Stevenson (environmental politics, social information processing), Candy Jones (inter-organizational networks, cultural industries) and Richard Nielsen (ethics).
The Department shares with the University a strong international, comparative, and global orientation. Graduate students who wish to combine their work in sociology with multidisciplinary study in a particular area of the world are encouraged to enroll in certificate programs in one of the following fields: Asian Studies, Russian and East European Studies, Latin American Studies, and West European Studies. We're proud of our faculty and staff, and graduate students.
The Department of Sociology offers programs leading to the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy. The field of sociology is divided into three general substantive areas: (1) Social Structures and Organizations; (2) Social Demography; and (3) Social Psychology. Within these general areas numerous specialties, such as stratification, organization, networks,education, fertility, quantitative and qualitative research methods, mathematical models, theory, suicidology, gender, family, mental health, and deviance, are available.
The Department of Sociology and Rural Sociology offers programs leading to the MA and PhD degrees. The otherwise diverse faculty has particular concentrations of research interests in social networks and labor markets. Students develop formal specializations in one of four substantive areas:
Contact Frans Stokman or Thomas Snijders to learn about opportunities for graduate education in social networks.
Located in Austria, the institute offer a possible specialization in social network analysis.
Our core research projects look at personal community networks, social support, change in networks, reciprocity, computer-supported social networks of work and community, culture and networks, barter and informal exchange in a big city, computer-mediated communication, ethnicity, kinship, and demography. Contact Barry Wellman or Bonnie Erickson to learn about opportunities for graduate education in social networks.
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