Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Positional Analysis	Blockmodeling
Πεδίο	Sociology	Sociology
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1976	1976
Δημιουργός	Harrison White, Ronald Burt, and colleagues	Harrison White, Scott Boorman & Ronald Breiger
Τύπος	Framework for identifying network positions and the roles among them	Network partitioning into positions and a reduced role structure
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	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.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	role analysis, positional role analysis, network role and position analysis, regular equivalence analysis	block modeling, blockmodel analysis, generalized blockmodeling, CONCOR
Συναφείς	5	4
Σύνοψη	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.