Research subject Social Networks
The research area Social networks aims at analyzing the structure in relationships among various social actors, as well as how that structure changes over time.
Research within this area increase our understanding of the social mechanisms behind the interplay between social actors and their societal consequences. Examples of social phenomena that are studied with social network analysis are: the rise and evolution of criminal networks, the spread of infectious deceases through society, or the spread of information, ideas and political opinions.
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Sociology![Photo: Omar Flores/Unsplash Threads in different colours in a complicated network](/polopoly_fs/1.605440.1648207005!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_690/image.jpg)
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Fredrik Liljeros
Professor of Sociology
![Fredrik_portratt](/polopoly_fs/1.232357.1665922075!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Hernan Mondani
Researcher, Docent in Sociology
![Foto Mondani](/polopoly_fs/1.266961.1543060683!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Jens Rydgren
Professor of Sociology
![Jens Rydgren. Foto: Clément Morin/Stockholms universitet. Jens Rydgren. Foto: Clément Morin/Stockholms universitet.](/polopoly_fs/1.286437.1465826656!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Frankseco Junior Yorke
Phd student
![Profile Image of Frankseco Yorke](/polopoly_fs/1.609550.1650921590!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
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The research activities takes place at the Department of Sociology.
Department of Sociology Swedish Institute for Social Research