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	Structural Balance Theory	Blockmodeling	Dyadic Analysis	Homophily Analysis	Analys av sociala nätverk
Ämnesområde	Sociology	Sociology	Sociology	Sociology	Nätverksanalys
Familj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Regression model	Process / pipeline	Machine learning
Ursprungsår	1946 (Heider); 1956 (Cartwright & Harary)	1976	1981	1954 (concept); 2001 (synthesis)	1934 (sociometry); 1994 (modern formalization)
Upphovsperson	Fritz Heider; formalized by Dorwin Cartwright & Frank Harary	Harrison White, Scott Boorman & Ronald Breiger	Holland & Leinhardt (p1); Kenny (Social Relations Model)	Lazarsfeld & Merton (concept); McPherson, Smith-Lovin & Cook (synthesis)	Moreno, J.L.; formalized by Wasserman & Faust
Typ	Theory and graph-theoretic test for tension in signed relationships	Network partitioning into positions and a reduced role structure	Analysis of the dyad as the unit, decomposing relational effects	Measurement of similarity-based tie formation	Structural/relational analysis framework
Ursprungskälla	Cartwright, D., & Harary, F. (1956). Structural balance: a generalization of Heider's theory. Psychological Review, 63(5), 277–293.	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.	Holland, P. W., & Leinhardt, S. (1981). An exponential family of probability distributions for directed graphs. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 76(373), 33–50.	McPherson, M., Smith-Lovin, L., & Cook, J. M. (2001). Birds of a feather: homophily in social networks. Annual Review of Sociology, 27, 415–444.	Wasserman, S. & Faust, K. (1994). Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0-521-38707-1
Alias	balance theory, Heider balance, signed network balance, structural balance analysis	block modeling, blockmodel analysis, generalized blockmodeling, CONCOR	dyad analysis, dyadic data analysis, social relations model, dyad census	homophily measurement, assortative mixing analysis, birds-of-a-feather analysis, tie-similarity analysis	SNA, network analysis, sociometric analysis, relational analysis
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Sammanfattning	Structural balance theory analyzes networks whose ties carry a sign — positive for liking, alliance, or trust, negative for hostility or distrust — and asks which configurations are psychologically and socially stable. Originating in Fritz Heider's cognitive balance principle and given a graph-theoretic form by Dorwin Cartwright and Frank Harary in 1956, it predicts that signed networks evolve toward states free of the tension produced by inconsistent triads such as 'the friend of my enemy'.	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.	Dyadic analysis treats the dyad — the pair of actors and the relation between them — as the unit of analysis, separating the relational outcome into what each actor brings to all their relationships and what is unique to the specific pair. It spans the descriptive dyad census of network analysis and statistical frameworks such as Holland and Leinhardt's p1 model and Kenny's Social Relations Model, all of which respect the structural non-independence inherent in relational data.	Homophily analysis quantifies the tendency of similar individuals to form ties — the principle that 'birds of a feather flock together'. It compares the rate at which people connect with others who share an attribute (race, gender, age, education, attitudes) against what would be expected by chance, distinguishing the homophily that arises merely from group sizes from the genuine, behavior-driven preference for similar others.	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.