SNA is a particularly useful approach because it treats people as interconnected social beings, emphasizing the role of structure in shaping behaviour. Since then, SNA has been used in a wide variety of disciplines in the social sciences, such as anthropology, criminology, and education, and has turned into a “vibrant multidisciplinary field”. Jacob Moreno and Helen Jennings, working within the psychiatric and psychological fields, are most often credited with the birth of SNA as we know it today. Business and organizational research conducted at Harvard’s School of Business Administration played an important role in developing and popularizing early SNA methods. Its foundations can be traced back to early 1900s business, anthropology, and sociology research. Social network analysis (SNA) is both a theoretical perspective and a methodological approach to examining the social connections and structures among social beings. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting information files.įunding: This work was supported by The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) under Grant #435-2021-0749 (AG). Received: JAccepted: FebruPublished: February 27, 2023Ĭopyright: © 2023 Zakimi et al. Latkin, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, UNITED STATES Citation: Zakimi N, Greer A, Bouchard M, Dhillon A, Ritter A (2023) Sociometric network analysis in illicit drugs research: A scoping review.
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