Positional Analysis
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.
Source record
Citations copied verbatim from the method’s source record. No claim-level verification is inferred from them.
- Burt, R. S. (1976). Positions in networks. Social Forces, 55(1), 93–122. · DOI 10.1093/sf/55.1.93
- 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. · DOI 10.1086/226141
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