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	Positional Analysis	Blockmodeling	Social netværksanalyse
Fagområde	Sociology	Sociology	Netværksanalyse
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Machine learning
Oprindelsesår	1976	1976	1934 (sociometry); 1994 (modern formalization)
Ophavsperson	Harrison White, Ronald Burt, and colleagues	Harrison White, Scott Boorman & Ronald Breiger	Moreno, J.L.; formalized by Wasserman & Faust
Type	Framework for identifying network positions and the roles among them	Network partitioning into positions and a reduced role structure	Structural/relational analysis framework
Oprindelig kilde	Burt, R. S. (1976). Positions in networks. Social Forces, 55(1), 93–122.	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.	Wasserman, S. & Faust, K. (1994). Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0-521-38707-1
Aliasser	role analysis, positional role analysis, network role and position analysis, regular equivalence analysis	block modeling, blockmodel analysis, generalized blockmodeling, CONCOR	SNA, network analysis, sociometric analysis, relational analysis
Relaterede	5	4	5
Resumé	Positional analysis is the network-analytic program that identifies the positions actors occupy — sets of actors equivalent in their relational patterns — and characterizes the system of roles that links those positions. Growing out of Harrison White's structuralism and Ronald Burt's operationalization in the 1970s, it treats the social structure as a small set of positions and the role relations among them, rather than as a collection of individual actors.	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.	Social Network Analysis (SNA) is a structural method that maps and measures relationships and flows between people, groups, organizations, or other entities modeled as nodes connected by ties (edges). Rather than focusing on individual attributes, SNA reveals how the pattern of connections shapes behavior, influence, information flow, and outcomes within a system.