The human social world is orders of magnitude smaller than our highly urbanized world
might lead us to suppose. In addition, human social networks have a very distinct fractal …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS for EGO-NETS Page 3 SAGE was
founded in 1965 by Sara Miller McCune to support the dissemination of usable knowledge by …

Research Methods in Anthropology is the standard textbook for methods classes in
anthropology. Written in Russ Bernard's unmistakable conversational style, this guide has …

Conventional wisdom over the past 160 years in the cognitive and neurosciences has
assumed that brains evolved to process factual information about the world. Most attention …

What a big brain we have for all the small talk we make. It's an evolutionary riddle that at
long last makes sense in this intriguing book about what gossip has done for our talkative …

Group size covaries with relative neocortical volume in nonhuman primates. This regression
equation predicts a group size for modern humans very similar to that for hunter-gatherer …

In the thoroughly updated edition of Social Network Analysis, authors David Knoke and
Song Yang take into account the vast number of changes in the field that have occurred in …

Systems theory is the basic theoretical model underlying most contemporary family therapy.
In this accessible introduction, the author traces how systems theory gave rise to family …

This paper examines social network size in contemporary Western society based on the
exchange of Christmas cards. Maximum network size averaged 153.5 individuals, with a …

In this paper, we report on an experimental study of social structure in three cultures:
Mormon (Utah), Paiute (Arizona), and Ponapean (Micronesia). There are many ways to …