方法对比

	Positional Analysis	Blockmodeling
领域	Sociology	Sociology
方法族	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
起源年份	1976	1976
提出者	Harrison White, Ronald Burt, and colleagues	Harrison White, Scott Boorman & Ronald Breiger
类型	Framework for identifying network positions and the roles among them	Network partitioning into positions and a reduced role structure
开创性文献	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.
别名	role analysis, positional role analysis, network role and position analysis, regular equivalence analysis	block modeling, blockmodel analysis, generalized blockmodeling, CONCOR
相关	5	4
摘要	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.