Contenidos:Introduction : advances in the social and behavioral sciences from social network analysis / Joseph Galaskiewicz and Stanley Wasserman -- Network studies of social influence / Peter V. Marsden and Noah E. Friedkin -- Epidemiology and social networks : modeling structured diffusion / Martina Morris -- Statistical models for social support networks / Michael E. Walker, Stanley Wasserman, and Barry Wellman -- Social cognition in context : some applications of social network analysis / Philippa Pattison -- Anthropological contributions to the study of social networks : a review / Jeffrey C. Johnson -- Primate social networks / Donald Stone Sade and Malcolm M. Dow -- Network analysis and computer-mediated communication systems / Ronald E. Rice -- Intraorganizational networks : the micro side / David Krackhardt and Daniel J. Brass -- Networks of interorganizational relations / Mark S. Mizruchi and Joseph Galaskiewicz -- Marketing and social networks / Phipps Arabie and Yoram Wind -- Networks of elite structure and decision making / David Knoke