# Social network analysis
## MicroSim spec
- **Recommended sim type:** network / graph
- **Microsimmability score:** 76/100
- **Layout:** drawing region (canvas) on top; control region (sliders/buttons) below.
### Parameters (tunable controls)
- `Number of actors`
- `Tie probability`
- `Clustering`
### What animates
A social graph is drawn and you watch centrality and clusters shift as ties are added.
### Learning objective
Read social structure from centrality and clustering in a relationship graph.
## Links (Wikipedia order)
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`Account_verification` · `Adjacency_list` · [[Adjacency_matrix]] · `Adolescent_clique` · `Affinity_fraud` · [[Agent-based_model]] · `Albert-László_Barabási` · `Alexis_de_Tocqueville` · [[Algorithm]] · `Algorithmic_amplification` · `Algorithmic_radicalization` · `Ambient_awareness` · [[Anatol_Rapoport]] · `Anthony_Giddens` · `Anthropology` · `Arnold_Gehlen` · `Assortative_mixing` · `Assortativity` · `Astrosociology` · `Asynchronous_learning` · `Attention_economy` · `Attention_inequality` · `Auguste_Comte` · `Balance_theory` · `Barabási–Albert_model` · `Barry_Wellman` · `Betweenness_centrality` · `Bianconi–Barabási_model` · `Bibliography_of_sociology` · `Biological_network` · `Biology` · `Bipartite_graph` · `Blockmodeling` · `Boolean_network` · `Bridge_(graph_theory)` · `Bridge_(interpersonal)` · `Business_intelligence` · `C._Wright_Mills` · `Call_detail_record` · `Case_study` · [[Centrality]] · `Clique` · `Clique_(graph_theory)` · `Closeness_centrality` · `Clustering_coefficient` · `Coefficient` · `Collaboration_graph` · `Collaborative_consumption` · `Collaborative_finance` · [[Combinatorial_optimization]] · `Communication_studies` · `Community_recognition` · `Community_structure` · `Comparative_historical_research` · `Complete_graph` · `Complex_contagion` · `Complex_network` · `Computational_sociology` · `Computer-supported_collaborative_learning` · `Computer_addiction` · `Computer_network` · [[Computer_science]] · `Conflict_theories` · `Connectivity_(graph_theory)` · `Consequential_strangers` · `Content_analysis` · `Conversation_analysis` · `Corporate_social_media` · `Creator_economy` · `Criminology` · `Critical_theory` · `Cut_(graph_theory)` · `Cycle_(graph_theory)` · `Daniel_Bell` · `Data_mining` · `David_Krackhardt` · `Degree_(graph_theory)` · `Degree_distribution` · `Demography` · `Dense_graph` · `Dependency_network` · `Development_studies` · `Deviance_(sociology)` · `Digital_humanities` · `Directed_graph` · `Distance_(graph_theory)` · `Distributed_social_network` · `Douglas_R._White` · `Duncan_J._Watts` · [[Dynamic_network_analysis]] · `Economic_sociology` · `Economics` · `Edward_Laumann` · `Efficiency_(network_science)` · `Eigenvector_centrality` · `Emmanuel_Joseph_Sieyès` · `Enterprise_social_networking` · `Enterprise_social_software` · `Environmental_sociology` · `Erdős–Rényi_model` · `Erich_Fromm` · `Erving_Goffman` · `Espionage` · `Ethnography` · `Evolving_network` · `Exponential_family_random_graph_models` · `Facebook` · `Feminist_sociology` · `Ferdinand_Tönnies` · `Fiscal_sociology` · `Fitness_model_(network_theory)` · `Flow_network` · `Fourth_Industrial_Revolution` · `Friend_of_a_friend` · `Friending_and_following` · `Friendship_paradox` · `Friendship_recession` · `Geography` · `Georg_Simmel` · `George_Herbert_Mead` · `Geosocial_networking` · `Gerontology` · `Giant_Global_Graph` · `Globalization` · `Graph_(abstract_data_type)` · `Graph_(discrete_mathematics)` · `Graph_drawing` · [[Graph_theory]] · `Group_centrality` · `Gustave_Le_Bon` · `Harriet_Martineau` · `Harrison_White` · `Helen_Hall_Jennings` · `Helmut_Schoeck` · `Herbert_Spencer` · `Hierarchical_network_model` · `Historical_method` · `Historical_sociology` · `History` · `History_of_sociology` · `Homophily` · `Human_behavior` · `Human_impact_on_the_environment` · `Hyperbolic_geometric_graph` · `Hypergraph` · `Hyperlink` · `Identity_(social_science)` · `Incidence_matrix` · `Index_of_sociology_articles` · `Individual_mobility` · `Industrial_sociology` · `Influence-for-hire` · `Influencer_marketing` · `Information_overload` · [[Information_science]] · [[Information_system]] · `Interdependent_networks` · `Interview_(research)` · `James_H._Fowler` · `Jane_Addams` · `Jean_Baudrillard` · `John_Arundel_Barnes` · `Jon_Kleinberg` · `Journal_of_Research_on_Adolescence` · `Jürgen_Habermas` · `Karl_Mannheim` · [[Karl_Marx]] · [[Kathleen_Carley]] · `Kinship` · `Ladan_Tahvildari` · `Lancichinetti–Fortunato–Radicchi_benchmark` · `Lateral_communication` · `Law_enforcement` · `Lester_Frank_Ward` · `Link_analysis` · `Link_prediction` · `List_of_algorithms` · `List_of_network_scientists` · `List_of_network_theory_topics` · `List_of_social_networking_services` · `List_of_sociological_associations` · `List_of_sociologists` · `List_of_sociology_journals` · `List_of_virtual_communities_with_more_than_1_million_users` · `Loop_(graph_theory)` · `Louis_de_Bonald` · `Marcia_Friesen` · `Mark_Granovetter` · `Mark_Newman` · `Marketing_research` · `Marxist_sociology` · `Mathematical_sociology` · `Matthew_O._Jackson` · `Max_Weber` · `Maximum-entropy_random_graph_model` · `Measurement` · `Medical_sociology` · `Meme` · `Metadata` · `Metcalfe's_law` · `Metrics_(networking)` · `Michel_Foucault` · `Military_sociology` · `Mobile_social_network` · `Modularity_(networks)` · `Money_laundering` · `Mosaic_effect` · `Multidimensional_scaling` · `Multigraph` · `Narrowcasting` · `National_Security_Agency` · `Neighbourhood_(graph_theory)` · `Net-map_toolbox` · `Netocracy` · `Network-based_diffusion_analysis` · `Network_controllability` · `Network_effect` · [[Network_motif]] · `Network_on_a_chip` · [[Network_science]] · [[Network_theory]] · `Networked_learning` · [[Niklas_Luhmann]] · `Norbert_Elias` · `Online_identity` · `Organizational_network_analysis` · `Organizational_patterns` · `Outline_of_sociology` · `Overchoice` · `PageRank` · `Path_(graph_theory)` · `Peer_group` · `Peer_pressure` · `Percolation_theory` · `Persona_(user_experience)` · `Personal_knowledge_networking` · `Personal_network` · `Persuasion` · `Peter_Bearman` · [[Physics]] · `Pierre_Bourdieu` · `Political_science` · `Political_sociology` · `Popularity` · `Positivism` · `Postpositivism` · `Potential_energy` · `Power_(social_and_political)` · `Preferential_attachment` · `Professional_network_service` · `Propinquity` · `Public_sociology` · `Qualitative_research` · `Quantitative_research` · `Random_geometric_graph` · `Random_graph` · `Raymond_Aron` · `Real_utopian_sociology` · `Reciprocity_(network_science)` · [[Recommender_system]] · [[Relevance]] · `Reliability_(statistics)` · `René_Veenstra` · `Reputation_system` · `Robert_K._Merton` · `Robert_Nisbet` · `Ronald_Stuart_Burt` · `Rural_sociology` · [[Scale-free_network]] · `Scientific_collaboration_network` · `Semantic_network` · `Semantic_social_network` · `September_11_attacks` · `Sexual_network` · `Sharing_economy` · `Signed_graph` · `Signed_network` · `Six_degrees_of_separation` · `Small-world_experiment` · [[Small-world_network]] · `Social_Darwinism` · `Social_aspects_of_jealousy` · `Social_aspects_of_television` · `Social_bot` · `Social_capital` · `Social_commerce` · `Social_complexity` · `Social_construction_of_technology` · `Social_constructionism` · `Social_cycle_theory` · `Social_data_revolution` · `Social_environment` · `Social_equality` · `Social_equity` · `Social_exchange_theory` · `Social_experiment` · `Social_graph` · `Social_group` · `Social_identity_theory` · `Social_influence` · `Social_invisibility` · `Social_marketing_intelligence` · `Social_media` · `Social_media_analytics` · `Social_media_and_psychology` · `Social_media_and_suicide` · `Social_media_intelligence` · `Social_media_mining` · `Social_media_optimization` · `Social_movement_theory` · `Social_network` · `Social_network_(disambiguation)` · `Social_network_aggregation` · `Social_network_analysis_in_criminology` · `Social_network_analysis_software` · `Social_network_game` · `Social_networking_service` · `Social_profiling` · `Social_psychology` · `Social_psychology_(sociology)` · `Social_research` · `Social_software` · `Social_sorting` · `Social_stratification` · `Social_structure` · `Social_television` · `Social_web` · [[Society]] · `Sociocybernetics` · `Sociogram` · `Sociolinguistics` · `Sociological_theory` · `Sociology` · `Sociology_and_the_history_of_science` · `Sociology_of_Jewry` · `Sociology_of_architecture` · `Sociology_of_art` · `Sociology_of_culture` · `Sociology_of_death` · `Sociology_of_disaster` · `Sociology_of_education` · `Sociology_of_emotions` · `Sociology_of_food` · `Sociology_of_gender` · `Sociology_of_health_and_illness` · `Sociology_of_human_consciousness` · `Sociology_of_immigration` · `Sociology_of_knowledge` · `Sociology_of_language` · `Sociology_of_law` · `Sociology_of_leisure` · `Sociology_of_literature` · `Sociology_of_peace,_war,_and_social_conflict` · `Sociology_of_philosophy` · `Sociology_of_punishment` · `Sociology_of_race_and_ethnic_relations` · `Sociology_of_religion` · `Sociology_of_scientific_knowledge` · `Sociology_of_sociology` · `Sociology_of_space` · `Sociology_of_sport` · `Sociology_of_terrorism` · `Sociology_of_the_Internet` · `Sociology_of_the_body` · `Sociology_of_the_family` · `Sociomapping` · `Sociomusicology` · `Soft_configuration_model` · `Software` · `Spatial_network` · `Stanley_Milgram` · `Stochastic_block_model` · `Structural_cohesion` · `Structural_endogamy` · `Structural_functionalism` · `Structural_holes` · `Survey_(human_research)` · `Symbolic_interactionism` · [[Talcott_Parsons]] · `Telecommunications_network` · `Terrorism` · `Theodor_W._Adorno` · `Theory_of_generations` · `Thorstein_Veblen` · `Timeline_of_sociology` · `Tom_Snijders` · `Transitive_relation` · `Triadic_closure` · `Triangulation_(social_science)` · `Tribe_(internet)` · `University_College_London` · `Urban_sociology` · `User_profile` · `Valdis_Krebs` · `Value_network` · `Vertex_(graph_theory)` · `Victimology` · [[Vilfredo_Pareto]] · `Viral_marketing` · `Viral_phenomenon` · `Virtual_collective_consciousness` · `Visual_sociology` · `W._E._B._Du_Bois` · `Watts–Strogatz_model` · `Web_page` · `Website` · `Zygmunt_Bauman` · `Émile_Durkheim`
## From the Real GENERATIVE library
*Social network analysis — placed from the Real G.E.N.E.R.A.T.I.V.E. course library (Visualization room). Source: Wikimedia Commons (via Wikipedia article media). [Details & license](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Social_Network_Diagram_%28segment%29.svg).*
> 1800s: Martineau · Tocqueville · Marx · Spencer · Le Bon · Ward · Pareto · Tönnies · Veblen · Simmel · Durkheim · Addams · Mead · Weber · Du Bois · Mannheim · Elias ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_analysis))
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> p5.js MicroSim stub · part of Systems Science · [Wikipedia source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_analysis)
> Relation: subfield of systems science.
## Concept summary
Social network analysis maps relationships among actors as a graph and measures [[Structure|structure]] such as [[Centrality|centrality]], clustering, and [[Information|information]] flow.
## Build checklist
- [ ] Claim it: set `status: in-progress` + `lease` + `leased_at`
- [ ] Write the child page explaining the concept (tie it back to systems science)
- [ ] Finalize parameter ranges and defaults
- [ ] Implement the p5.js sketch (drawing + control regions)
- [ ] Add caption + the learning objective on the page
- [ ] Set `status: done`
## p5.js sketch
```javascript
// MicroSim: Social network analysis
let controls = {};
function setup() {
// createCanvas(...); create sliders for the parameters above.
}
function draw() {
// background(...); read controls; render network / graph; respond live.
}
```
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## Wikipedia : Wikitube
**Strict pair:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_analysis) : [Wikitube](https://en.wikitube.io/wiki/Social_network_analysis)
## Previous hub tags
Tree parents: [[Agent-based_model]] · [[Complex_system]] · [[Cybernetics]] · [[Emergence]] · [[Feedback]] · [[Graph_theory]] · [[Network_theory]] · [[Self-organization]] · [[Systems_science]] · [[Systems_theory]].
Legacy hubs: none.
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*Sources: 1 legacy note. Minted wave 1, 2026-07-30 (v1.6 order).*