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	Generalized Blockmodeling	Blockmodeling
Camp	Sociology	Sociology
Família	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Any d'origen	2005	1976
Autor original	Patrick Doreian, Vladimir Batagelj & Anuška Ferligoj	Harrison White, Scott Boorman & Ronald Breiger
Tipus	Direct optimization partition of a network into positions with typed blocks	Network partitioning into positions and a reduced role structure
Font seminal	Doreian, P., Batagelj, V., & Ferligoj, A. (2005). Generalized Blockmodeling. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0-521-84085-9	White, H. C., Boorman, S. A., & Breiger, R. L. (1976). Social structure from multiple networks. I. Blockmodels of roles and positions. American Journal of Sociology, 81(4), 730–780.
Àlies	generalized blockmodel, direct blockmodeling, pre-specified blockmodeling, Doreian-Batagelj-Ferligoj blockmodeling	block modeling, blockmodel analysis, generalized blockmodeling, CONCOR
Relacionats	5	4
Resum	Generalized blockmodeling, developed by Doreian, Batagelj, and Ferligoj, partitions the actors of a network into positions and simultaneously characterizes the ties between positions as one of several allowed block types — null, complete, regular, dominant, and others. Rather than the indirect, two-step approach of computing equivalences and then clustering, it directly searches for the partition that minimizes the inconsistency between the observed network and an idealized block structure, optionally one the analyst pre-specifies from theory.	Blockmodeling is a family of methods that simplify a social network by partitioning its actors into positions — groups of actors who are equivalent in their pattern of ties — and summarizing the relations between positions as a compact image, or reduced role structure. Introduced by Harrison White, Scott Boorman, and Ronald Breiger in 1976, it shifts attention from individuals to the structural roles they occupy.