EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED: AN APPROACH TO QUALITATIVE NETWORK RESEARCH. SOCIOLOGICAL REMARKS ON PERSPECTIVES, COMPLEXITIES, AND DIFFICULTIES

Forfattere

  • Epameinondas Panagopoulos PhD Candidate, University of Patras, Greece
  • Ioannis Kamarianos Professor, University of Patras, Greece

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejsss.v9i5.1643

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social network, qualitative research methodology

Resumé

Social Νetwork Αnalysis (SNA) is an important methodological approach but also a valuable instrument for research in social sciences and social issues, including Diversity, Social Capital, and the Trust Crisis. More precisely, a network consists of sets of nodes, ties, and sometimes attributes. Nodes refer to elements of the researcher's project and ties are based on the researcher's interests. In a network, the vital components are the connections and patterns. In the past, the scientific community merely associated social network analysis (SNA) with the quantitative methodological approach. However, this approach has begun to be revised in recent years because the quantitative approach can only solve specific cases that arise in society. On the contrary, qualitative SNA can generate and examine data on numerous social issues. The qualitative SNA is an in-depth approach focusing on the social subject and its connections with other social subjects, institutions, or organizations. This study highlights the importance of a qualitative SNA and offers a distinctive approach to qualitative SNA in the research field.

 

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  • Epameinondas Panagopoulos, PhD Candidate, University of Patras, Greece

    Epameinondas Panagopoulos, PhD Candidate in Sociology of Education at the Department of Education and Social Work at the University of Patras (Greece). His fields of interest refer to the Sociology of Education and, more precisely, issues related to trust, citizenship, identity, and the implementation of educational practices, both at the level of policy transfer and policy learning.

  • Ioannis Kamarianos, Professor, University of Patras, Greece

    Ioannis Kamarianos, Associate Professor of Sociology of Education at the Department of Education and Social Work at the University of Patras (Greece). He has taught sociology and sociology of education at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels since 1997. His research interests focus on issues that concern the sociology and sociology of education, citizenship, migration, and the sociology of ICTs.

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2024-02-12

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Årg. 9 Nr. 5 (2024)

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