Network Sampling: Some First Steps

By Mark S. Granovetter. 1976

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Sampling Content from Online Social Networks (2015, background): “With the advent of large networked systems, there have been several studies on sampling large networks such as the Web-graph [Rusmevichientong et al. 2001] and social networks [Frank 1978; Gjoka et al. 2010; Granovetter 1976; Leskovec and Faloutsos 2006].”
Communication Processes that Predict Young Adults’ Feelings of Being Caught and their Associations with Mental Health and Family Satisfaction (2007, background): “The researchers also collected data using network sampling (Granovetter, 1976) in which students, colleagues, and fellow community members were asked to identify additional participants from postdivorce or continuously intact families who would be willing to complete a questionnaire.”
Changes in closeness between adult children and their parents: A turning point analysis (2000, unknown): “nesses, graduate classes, and network sampling (Granovetter, 1976).”
Assessing the bias in samples of large online networks (2014, background): “…population under study has no clear frame, either ecause it is hard to reach or because of the boundary specification roblem and the empirical difficulty of defining rules for incluion (Erickson and Nosanchuk, 1983; Erickson et al., 1981; Frank, 978; Frank and Snijders, 1994; Granovetter, 1976).”
Ambivalence and Resistance: A Study of Management in a Concertive Control System (2005, methodology): “For the interviews, a network sampling method was used (Granovetter, 1976).”
An Individual Difference Explanation of Why Married Couples Engage in the Demand/Withdraw Pattern of Conflict (2000, methodology): “Respondents were recruited using network sampling, a procedure in which an initial group of participants was identified through the researchers’ network of acquaintances and subsequent participants were found through recommendations of earlier participants ( Granovetter, 1976 ).”
“Feeling caught” as a mediator of adolescents' and young adults' avoidance and satisfaction with their parents in divorced and non-divorced households (2003, background): “Adolescents were also recruited through network sampling (Granovetter, 1976) in which researchers entered college classrooms and had the students find one post-divorce or continuously intact family that had an adolescent in it who might be willing to participate.”