Citation

Haines VA. Soc. Netw. 1988; 10(2): 157-182.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0378-8733(88)90020-2

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Attempts at developing the theoretical side of social network analysis have not generated a satisfactory account of its methodological suppositions and implications. This paper clarifies the network conception of the relationship between human action and social structure by documenting the convergence of social netwoek analysis with structuration theory on the principle of methodological individualism. It then uses the convergence argument to suggest a new role for social network analysis in the methodological restructuring of modern social theory.