Deux traditions d'analyse des reseaux sociaux

Abstract

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‘We're responsible for the diagnosis and for finding help’. The help‐seeking trajectories of families of children on the autism spectrum

“…By focusing on how people connect, particular attention is paid to relationships that are likely to provide help and support and to links that have been mobilised, or conversely abandoned, in the process of seeking help (Carpentier and White 2013, Carpentier and Ducharme 2005). This approach is rooted in a cultural approach to networks that focuses on the dynamic intertwining of relationships between interconnected people through which there is a flow (or lack thereof) of resources, information or support (Eve, 2002). The support network is a web of relationships and transactions between actors.…”

Network diversity and maritime flows

“…While this is largely due to the absence of a proper mathematical definition of multigraphs (or multiplex graphs), the possibility and implications of having two or more types of links were approached by sociologists since the 1960s (Mitchell, 1969;Burt, 1992;Eve, 2002), notably looking at the effects of having both personal and professional relations within a given organization on individuals' career evolution. Such multiedge relations are thus called two-dimensional in social network analysis in opposition to singlestranded edges or links (Larson and Starr, 1993 ;Degenne and Forsé, 1999); they sometimes allow directionality (multidigraph) and the existence of loops, self-loops, or self-edges (pseudograph).…”

Social practices and mobilisations of kinship: an introduction

“…Represented by the Manchester School, it distinguishes itself from the structuralist approach by the variety of material it uses (personal networks). As Michael Eve (2002) underlines, this difference is of momentous range. Rather than considering, as structuralists do, systems of relationships and norms autonomous of one another, the Manchester School have tried to show how these systems intertwine, while anchoring their analysis at the level of the individual.…”

“…[11] Challenging traditional sociological categories, these works consider society by concentrating on relationships between individuals (Eve 2002). Repeating Mitchell's traditional proposition, a network can be defined as a specific collection of connections between a defined group of people, with an additional property -that these connections taken as a whole can be used to interpret the social behaviour of the people concerned (Mitchell 1969: 2).…”