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This edited volume demonstrates the potential of mixed-methods designs for the research of social networks and the utilization of social networks for other research. Mixing methods applies to the combination and integration of qualitative and quantitative methods. In social network research, mixing methods also applies to the combination of structural and actor-oriented approaches. The volume provides readers with methodological concepts to guide mixed-methods network studies with precise research designs and methods to investigate social networks of various sorts. Each chapter describes the research design used and discusses the strengths of the methods for that particular field and for specific outcomes

Getting Ahead tells the compelling stories of Latin-American immigrant women living in public housing in two Boston-area neighborhoods. Silvia Domínguez argues that these immigrant women parlay social ties that provide support and leverage to develop networks and achieve social positioning to get ahead. Through a rich ethnographic account and in-depth interviews, the strong voices of these women demonstratehow they successfully negotiate the world and achieve social mobility through their own individual agency, skillfullynavigating both constraints and opportunities. Domínguez makes it clear t.

Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Part I General Issues -- 1 Mixed Methods Social Networks Research: An Introduction -- The Concept of Social Network -- What Do We Mean by "Mixed Methods" in Social Network Research? -- Mixed Methods Research Designs -- Sequential Design -- Parallel Design -- Fully Integrated Design -- Embedded Design -- Conversion Design -- Benefits and Drawbacks of Mixed Methods Network Research -- Thick Descriptions of Networks, Network Practices, and Interpretations -- Network Effects -- Network Dynamics -- Drawbacks of Mixed Methods Designs -- Organization of the Book -- The Contributions -- References -- 2 Social Network Research -- Early Research in Social Networks -- Sociometry -- Social Structure as a Network of Human Relations -- Expansion Since the 1960s -- Principal Concepts in Social Network Research -- Social Relations, Graphs, and Networks -- Social Cohesion: Density, Connectivity, Embeddedness, Structural Holes, and Bridging -- Density -- Connectivity and Cohesive Subgroups -- Embeddedness -- Structural Holes, Bridging, Betweenness, and Brokerage -- Social Statuses and Roles: Block Modeling, or Positional and Role Analysis -- Importance: Centrality -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Triangulation and Validity of Network Data -- Introduction -- Potentials and Limitations of Quantitative Network Analysis -- Data Collection -- Data Analysis and Interpretation -- Specific and Generic Qualitative Methods -- Potentials of Triangulation in Network Analysis -- Fundamental Prerequisite -- Triangulation in a Research Project on Network Strategies and Network Capacity -- Data Collection -- Data Analysis and Interpretation.

Abstract: This study used ethnographic data to examine the nature and functions of transnational relationships of low‐income Latin American women who had immigrated to the United States and were living in areas of extreme poverty. Findings indicated that these Latin American mothers utilized transnational ties to help maintain the cultural identities of themselves and their children, to alleviate social isolation, and to provide a safer summer housing alternative for their children. Transnational ties may have had some negative consequences, including financial and social burdens associated with maintaining long‐distance familial relationships. However, despite some negative aspects, we conclude that transnational ties are often an instrumental resource for immigrant mothers living in poverty and are vital to immigrant social mobility.

AbstractThis article reviews racial microaggressions, specifically psychology and sociology's historical trajectory in informing existing literatures and disciplines, in its connections to meso and macro levels of systemic racism. In doing so, we contend that a sociological understanding of racial microaggressions presents opportunities to better understand the cumulative and deleterious effects of racial violence on racialized groups. Furthermore, we argue that beyond bridging the disciplines of psychology and sociology to allow for more interdisciplinary analyses of racial microaggressions will help to move conversations in ways that more meaningfully capture the monstrosity of white supremacy and its cumulative deleterious effects of daily racial terrorism at all levels of society.

Our goal with this special issue is to expand currently untapped ideas about racial microaggressions from a sociological point of view. As noted, research on this issue comes largely out of psychiatry, psychology, and education—disciplines that tend to place less emphasis on structural and institutional causes of racism. There is a need for more sociologically guided research to examine how subtle, covert, and non‐apparent forms of racism affect minorities physiologically, psychologically, and emotionally—and how these micronooses can best be understood in a larger context of structural racism. Examination of racial microaggressions from a sociological point of view promises additional insight to help understand the complexities of contemporary race and racism in America and abroad.