2022
DOI: 10.1177/00221465221086532
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Analytic Advances in Social Networks and Health in the Twenty-First Century

Abstract: The study of social networks is increasingly central to health research for medical sociologists and scholars in other fields. Here, we review the innovations in theory, substance, data collection, and methodology that have propelled the study of social networks and health from a niche subfield to the center of larger sociological and scientific debates. In particular, we contextualize the broader history of network analysis and its connections to health research, concentrating on work beginning in the late 19… Show more

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“…Although norms, expectations, and obligations are clear determinants of why people communicate and spend time with, feel close to, and live near one another, we still find that resources are a clear determinant of to whom we turn in times of need. Methodologically, these results suggest that the social networks and health literature would benefit from greater attention to collecting data on people’s role relations (Chapman, Verdery, and Moody 2022 also highlighted this). So much of this literature focuses on measuring network ties that people are actively engaged with, such as convoys of support providers or those elicited through name generators surrounding who people spend time with or talk to, and it is rare that there is a systematic effort to collect data on role relations (e.g., few name generators ask respondents to enumerate extended family, neighbors, or coworkers of significance).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 80%
“…Although norms, expectations, and obligations are clear determinants of why people communicate and spend time with, feel close to, and live near one another, we still find that resources are a clear determinant of to whom we turn in times of need. Methodologically, these results suggest that the social networks and health literature would benefit from greater attention to collecting data on people’s role relations (Chapman, Verdery, and Moody 2022 also highlighted this). So much of this literature focuses on measuring network ties that people are actively engaged with, such as convoys of support providers or those elicited through name generators surrounding who people spend time with or talk to, and it is rare that there is a systematic effort to collect data on role relations (e.g., few name generators ask respondents to enumerate extended family, neighbors, or coworkers of significance).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 80%
“…Because identities and social relationships shape each other in important ways, novel insights can be obtained by connecting traditional social networks research that focuses on interpersonal connections with an identity networks approach at the intrapersonal level. Indeed, the intersection of social relations and identity in its connection to health remains largely unexplored and has been identified as an area of growth (Chapman et al 2022). Before delving into our method and findings, we describe the current knowledge of interference and facilitation between identities and their link to health outcomes.…”
Section: Multiple Identities As Networkmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In their bibliometric analysis, Chapman et al found that the number of studies that examine social networks and health has sextupled since 2000. 25 Similarly, the value of grants and contracts in this topic area, as awarded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, has increased 10-fold. 25 A turning point in the field was the HIV epidemic, where there was an urgent need to better understand its spread.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%