Testing a procedure for measuring personal networks

Personal Network Analysis is a specific research sector of Social Network Analysis, which deserve particular research tools. This working paper copes with a technical challenge: testing a standard procedure for doing research on personal networks and detecting their core, through two standardized tools for gathering information on emotional and functional ties. The procedure is being tested on a typological-factorial panel, and gives significant results about personal networking and homophily. The main statistical and methodological tools for personal network analysis are presented, employed, and discussed

Prospettiva interdisciplinare e network analysis

Il lavoro argomenta la caratteristica della SNA come metodologia di analisi strutturale interdisciplinare

Urbanizzazione e qualità della vita: osservazioni sulla scelta degli indicatori.

The article examies the difficult problem of non-exportable indicators in the study of the relation between Life Quality and Urbanization Processes