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Jose Luis Molina
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Departament d’Antropologia social
Edifici B-Facultat de Lletres
08193-Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain 8193
Phone : +34935811239
Fax : +34935818323
E-mail : joseluis.molina@uab.es
Website : http://pagines.uab.cat/joseluismolina/
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| Theory, Methods and Applications of Social Networks. The measurament of personal networks and the elicitation of hidden populations (2 ECTS) | | Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Department of Social and Cultural Anthroplogy (egolab-GRAFO) |
| The aim of this 6th edition of the summer course is to enable graduate students in the social sciences to create, compare and critique personal network research designs, with special attention to the issue of hidden populations. On the first day, we will discuss the basic definitions and central concepts in personal network research and will briefly relate personal networks with various theoretical streams in the social sciences. This will give students an understanding of the requirements that researchers may pose to their instruments. We will then introduce the basic steps of measurement of personal networks in survey research. On the second day, we will focus on the name generators. Students will be introduced to the variety of name generators used in social sciences, which will be compared with respect to contents, the characteristics of the measured networks and ties, the reliability and validity of the measures, and respondent burden. Many empirical applications will be discussed during this session. In the third session, we will discuss the measurement of basic name interpreters, such as tie strength, roles and contexts. The fourth session is devoted to methods for estimating hidden populations. Finally an international seminar on personal networks will end the course. |
| Theory, methods and applications of social networks. Dynamic Analysis with SIENA (2 ECTS) | | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Department of Antropologia social i cultural |
| This summer course is intended to graduate students, researchers or professionals interested in an introduction to the theory and methods of social networks and especially in dynamic analysis of social networks with SIENA. The sessions will be both in Spanish and English, except the SIENA workshop, mainly in English. At the end of each session participants should complete a task and send it to professors. The last session is devoted to presentations by participants. The participants who complete the scheduled tasks will get an official recognition of credits. |
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| Sunbelt XXX - June 29 to July 04, 2010 - Riva del Garda Fierecongressi | | Abstract : The Geographical Distribution of Personal Networks of Migrants in Barcelona |
In order to explore the value added by the geographical information attached to social networks we collected during January-June 2009 personal networks of 75 people from three collectives: Sikhs (25), Chinese (25) and Filippineans (25) living in Barcelona. Each of the 75 Egos nominated 30 Alters using a free listing name generator looking for active contacts and, along with the description of each alter, her geographical location was recorded. In the case that both ego and alter lived in Barcelona, the location of the main place of interaction was also recorded. The personal networks were collected with the aid of EgoNet wich presents a visualization of the personal network in order to conduct an interview with the informant.
The two questions addressed in the research were:
• Looking to a sample of some ethnics groups … how we can map simultaneously their local, regional and transnational relationships?
• Is there any relationship between the “Diaspora” (average geographical distance among alters for each person and/or each ethnic group) and the social support locally available?
The social networks and the geographical distribution of social ties among countries were represented aggregating the 25 personal networks available for each ethnic group in a 4-node graph layout (Brandes et al. 2008). Also, with the aid of the SIG software Arcview maps showing the distribution of active contacts at the local (Barcelona), regional (Catalunya and Spain) and international level were designed for each ethnic group.
These representations showed a great deal of variation in the pattern of distribution of active contacts among these three ethnics groups, being the Sikhs who showed a more widespread distribution of active contacts, the Chinese in Barcelona a more embeddedness in the Spanish society (specially men through work relationships) and the Filippeneans a dyadic relationship between Spain and the Filipinas with a pattern of ethnic enclave in Barcelona segregated for the rest of population (specially in the case of women working in the domestic service).
Relating to the second question we found that distance matters in finding local support available measured as the degree of intimacy with local contacts maintained by ego as far as the geographical dispersion of active contacts is inversely related to this measure. |
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