Betina Hollstein

Mixed methods social networks research : design and applications

Part I. General Issues: 1. Mixed methods social network research: an introduction Betina Hollstein 2. Social network research Peter J. Carrington 3. Triangulation and validity of network data Andreas Wald 4. A network analytical four-level concept for an interpretation of social interaction in terms of structure and agency Roger Haussling Part II. Mixed Methods Applications: 5. Social networks, social influence, and fertility in Germany: challenges and benefits of applying a parallel mixed methods design Laura Bernardi, Sylvia Keim and Andreas Klarner 6. Two sides of the same coin: the integration of personal network analysis with ethnographic and psychometric strategies in the study of acculturation Isidro Maya Jariego and Silvia Dominguez 7. Adaptation to new legal procedures in rural China: integrating survey and ethnographic data Christine Avernius and Jeffrey C. Johnson 8. Mixing ethnography and information technology data mining to visualize innovation networks in global networked organizations Julia Gluesing, Kenneth Riopelle and James A. Danowski Part III. New Methodological Approaches Used in Mixed Methods Designs: 9. Fuzzy set analysis of network data as mixed method personal networks and the transition from school to work Betina Hollstein and Claudius Wagemann 10. Reconstructing social networks through text analysis: from text networks to narrative actor networks Joan Miquel Verd and Carlos Lozares 11. Give meaning to social networks: methodology for conducting and analyzing interviews based on personal network visualizations Jose Luis Molina, Isidro Maya Jariego and Christopher McCarty 12. Simulating the social networks and interactions of poor immigrants Bruce Rogers and Cecilia Menjivar.

Networked Governance: A New Research Perspective

In the final chapter, Betina Hollstein, Wenzel Matiaske, Kai-Uwe Schnapp, and Michael Schnegg relate the new research perspective on networked governance to network governance research as it has developed over the last decades. The authors present a classification of networks as institutions and discuss the relations between actors and networks. They sum up the major results of the contributions in this volume and advance networked governance as a more general research paradigm that focuses on the processes of coordinating, reaching, and implementing decisions that take place in network(ed) (social) structures.

Network ed Governance: Taking Networks Seriously

Governance refers to the multitude of ways, mechanisms, and processes in which individuals, companies, organizations, societies, states, and supranational forms of organization arrive at and implement decisions. Governance research today faces increasingly complex organizational forms that consist of different types of actors, instruments, and arenas from the local up to the global level. This questions theoretical models that focus primarily on markets and hierarchies as modes of governance. In this book, we seek to explore older as well as emergent forms of governance by using concepts and methods of social network analysis. The introduction outlines the basic ideas of this approach and provides an overview of the contributions assembled in this volume.

Soziale Beziehungen, soziale Ungleichheit und Erträge qualitativer Studien

Thema des Beitrags sind soziale Beziehungen und soziale Ungleichheit und die Ertrage qualitativer Studien. Das Kapitel beginnt mit einigen Bemerkungen zur Bedeutung personlicher Sozialbeziehungen (Familien-, Freundschaftsbeziehungen und Bekannten) fur die Reproduktion sozialer Ungleichheit. Im Anschluss gebe ich einen Uberblick uber die spezifischen Ertrage interpretativer Verfahren der empirischen Sozialforschung. Diese liegen vor allem im Bereich der Transformation von sozialem in kulturelles Kapital, der Wirkungsweise und Aktivierung von Sozialkapital und der Konstitution und Veranderung sozialer Beziehungen. Am Beispiel von schichtspezifischen Freundschaften wird genauer auf die Beitrage qualitativer Studien zur Erklarung der Genese und Dynamik von Beziehungen eingegangen. Das Kapitel schliest mit einem kurzen Fazit zu Herausforderungen bei der qualitativen Untersuchung von Fragen sozialer Ungleichheit.

Social Dimensions of Personal Growth following Widowhood: A Three-Wave Study

Background: Losing one’s spouse is one of the most stressful life events in old age, yet research on positive consequences of overcoming critical life events describes experiences of personal growth for survivors. Objective: Because prior studies conceptualized personal growth as a stable accomplishment of an individual, our study challenges this assumption by examining trajectories of personal growth and its links to two aspects of social support. We assume that personal growth is boosted by heightened levels of loss-related social support seeking during early years of widowhood. However, toward the later stages in the bereavement process, we expect personal growth to be fostered by perceived social embeddedness. Data and Method: Data stem from a survey on relationships in later life conducted in 2012, 2014, and 2016 in Switzerland. The final analytical sample consisted of 508 individuals aged 50+ years, who were on average 73 years old and widowed for about 3 years at baseline. Longitudinal explorative factor analyses yielded a 3-factorial solution for personal growth. Random-effects group-specific growth curves were used to examine the trajectories of personal growth and its subdimensions, by different levels of loss-related social support seeking and embeddedness in a supportive network, over the first 8 years of widowhood. Our analyses included time-invariant and time-varying covariates. Results: On average, our findings point to a stable trajectory of personal growth after having become widowed in later life. Group-specific analyses, however, showed different courses in the trajectories for specific subdimensions of personal growth – particularly for spiritual change and appreciation of life. Average marginal effects also yielded group differences by loss-related support seeking in the level of personal growth over time, which highlight the importance of social support seeking, rather than social embeddedness, at all stages of the bereavement process. Conclusion: Findings underline the importance of a longitudinal and linked-lives perspective on personal growth and point to different pathways regarding its various subdimensions. Future research should further examine the validity of personal growth scales for other populations and consider the possibility to experience personal growth already during the anticipation of a traumatic event (e.g., in the case of long-term caretaking).

Mixed Methods Social Networks Research: New Methodological Approaches Used in Mixed Methods Designs

Part I. General Issues: 1. Mixed methods social network research: an introduction Betina Hollstein 2. Social network research Peter J. Carrington 3. Triangulation and validity of network data Andreas Wald 4. A network analytical four-level concept for an interpretation of social interaction in terms of structure and agency Roger Haussling Part II. Mixed Methods Applications: 5. Social networks, social influence, and fertility in Germany: challenges and benefits of applying a parallel mixed methods design Laura Bernardi, Sylvia Keim and Andreas Klarner 6. Two sides of the same coin: the integration of personal network analysis with ethnographic and psychometric strategies in the study of acculturation Isidro Maya Jariego and Silvia Dominguez 7. Adaptation to new legal procedures in rural China: integrating survey and ethnographic data Christine Avernius and Jeffrey C. Johnson 8. Mixing ethnography and information technology data mining to visualize innovation networks in global networked organizations Julia Gluesing, Kenneth Riopelle and James A. Danowski Part III. New Methodological Approaches Used in Mixed Methods Designs: 9. Fuzzy set analysis of network data as mixed method personal networks and the transition from school to work Betina Hollstein and Claudius Wagemann 10. Reconstructing social networks through text analysis: from text networks to narrative actor networks Joan Miquel Verd and Carlos Lozares 11. Give meaning to social networks: methodology for conducting and analyzing interviews based on personal network visualizations Jose Luis Molina, Isidro Maya Jariego and Christopher McCarty 12. Simulating the social networks and interactions of poor immigrants Bruce Rogers and Cecilia Menjivar.

Mixed Methods Social Networks Research: General Issues

Part I. General Issues: 1. Mixed methods social network research: an introduction Betina Hollstein 2. Social network research Peter J. Carrington 3. Triangulation and validity of network data Andreas Wald 4. A network analytical four-level concept for an interpretation of social interaction in terms of structure and agency Roger Haussling Part II. Mixed Methods Applications: 5. Social networks, social influence, and fertility in Germany: challenges and benefits of applying a parallel mixed methods design Laura Bernardi, Sylvia Keim and Andreas Klarner 6. Two sides of the same coin: the integration of personal network analysis with ethnographic and psychometric strategies in the study of acculturation Isidro Maya Jariego and Silvia Dominguez 7. Adaptation to new legal procedures in rural China: integrating survey and ethnographic data Christine Avernius and Jeffrey C. Johnson 8. Mixing ethnography and information technology data mining to visualize innovation networks in global networked organizations Julia Gluesing, Kenneth Riopelle and James A. Danowski Part III. New Methodological Approaches Used in Mixed Methods Designs: 9. Fuzzy set analysis of network data as mixed method personal networks and the transition from school to work Betina Hollstein and Claudius Wagemann 10. Reconstructing social networks through text analysis: from text networks to narrative actor networks Joan Miquel Verd and Carlos Lozares 11. Give meaning to social networks: methodology for conducting and analyzing interviews based on personal network visualizations Jose Luis Molina, Isidro Maya Jariego and Christopher McCarty 12. Simulating the social networks and interactions of poor immigrants Bruce Rogers and Cecilia Menjivar.

Mixed Methods Social Networks Research: Contents

Part I. General Issues: 1. Mixed methods social network research: an introduction Betina Hollstein 2. Social network research Peter J. Carrington 3. Triangulation and validity of network data Andreas Wald 4. A network analytical four-level concept for an interpretation of social interaction in terms of structure and agency Roger Haussling Part II. Mixed Methods Applications: 5. Social networks, social influence, and fertility in Germany: challenges and benefits of applying a parallel mixed methods design Laura Bernardi, Sylvia Keim and Andreas Klarner 6. Two sides of the same coin: the integration of personal network analysis with ethnographic and psychometric strategies in the study of acculturation Isidro Maya Jariego and Silvia Dominguez 7. Adaptation to new legal procedures in rural China: integrating survey and ethnographic data Christine Avernius and Jeffrey C. Johnson 8. Mixing ethnography and information technology data mining to visualize innovation networks in global networked organizations Julia Gluesing, Kenneth Riopelle and James A. Danowski Part III. New Methodological Approaches Used in Mixed Methods Designs: 9. Fuzzy set analysis of network data as mixed method personal networks and the transition from school to work Betina Hollstein and Claudius Wagemann 10. Reconstructing social networks through text analysis: from text networks to narrative actor networks Joan Miquel Verd and Carlos Lozares 11. Give meaning to social networks: methodology for conducting and analyzing interviews based on personal network visualizations Jose Luis Molina, Isidro Maya Jariego and Christopher McCarty 12. Simulating the social networks and interactions of poor immigrants Bruce Rogers and Cecilia Menjivar.

Mixed Methods Social Networks Research: Acknowledgments

Part I. General Issues: 1. Mixed methods social network research: an introduction Betina Hollstein 2. Social network research Peter J. Carrington 3. Triangulation and validity of network data Andreas Wald 4. A network analytical four-level concept for an interpretation of social interaction in terms of structure and agency Roger Haussling Part II. Mixed Methods Applications: 5. Social networks, social influence, and fertility in Germany: challenges and benefits of applying a parallel mixed methods design Laura Bernardi, Sylvia Keim and Andreas Klarner 6. Two sides of the same coin: the integration of personal network analysis with ethnographic and psychometric strategies in the study of acculturation Isidro Maya Jariego and Silvia Dominguez 7. Adaptation to new legal procedures in rural China: integrating survey and ethnographic data Christine Avernius and Jeffrey C. Johnson 8. Mixing ethnography and information technology data mining to visualize innovation networks in global networked organizations Julia Gluesing, Kenneth Riopelle and James A. Danowski Part III. New Methodological Approaches Used in Mixed Methods Designs: 9. Fuzzy set analysis of network data as mixed method personal networks and the transition from school to work Betina Hollstein and Claudius Wagemann 10. Reconstructing social networks through text analysis: from text networks to narrative actor networks Joan Miquel Verd and Carlos Lozares 11. Give meaning to social networks: methodology for conducting and analyzing interviews based on personal network visualizations Jose Luis Molina, Isidro Maya Jariego and Christopher McCarty 12. Simulating the social networks and interactions of poor immigrants Bruce Rogers and Cecilia Menjivar.