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	Positional Analysis	Ανάλυση Κοινωνικών Δικτύων
Πεδίο	Sociology	Ανάλυση Δικτύων
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Machine learning
Έτος προέλευσης	1976	1934 (sociometry); 1994 (modern formalization)
Δημιουργός	Harrison White, Ronald Burt, and colleagues	Moreno, J.L.; formalized by Wasserman & Faust
Τύπος	Framework for identifying network positions and the roles among them	Structural/relational analysis framework
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Burt, R. S. (1976). Positions in networks. Social Forces, 55(1), 93–122.	Wasserman, S. & Faust, K. (1994). Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0-521-38707-1
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	role analysis, positional role analysis, network role and position analysis, regular equivalence analysis	SNA, network analysis, sociometric analysis, relational analysis
Συναφείς	5	5
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.	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.