Social networks and the analysis of them is an inherently [[Interdisciplinarity|interdisciplinary]] academic field which emerged from [[social psychology]], [[sociology]], [[statistics]], and [[graph theory]]. [[Georg Simmel]] authored early structural theories in sociology emphasizing the dynamics of triads and "web of group affiliations".<ref name=":0">{{cite book|last1=Scott |first1=W. Richard |last2=Davis |first2=Gerald F. |author-link1= William Richard Scott|author-link2= Gerald F. Davis|title=Organizations and Organizing |chapter=Networks In and Around Organizations |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-13-195893-7 |publisher=Pearson Prentice Hall}}</ref> [[Jacob Moreno]] is credited with developing the first [[sociogram]]s in the 1930s to study interpersonal relationships. These approaches were mathematically formalized in the 1950s and theories and methods of social networks became pervasive in the [[Social science|social and behavioral sciences]] by the 1980s.<ref name="WF94CH1" /><ref name="Freeman History">{{cite book|last=Freeman |first=Linton |year=2004 |publisher=Empirical Press |isbn=978-1-59457-714-7 |title=The Development of Social Network Analysis: A Study in the Sociology of Science}}</ref> [[Social network analysis]] is now one of the major paradigms in contemporary sociology, and is also employed in a number of other social and formal sciences. Together with other [[complex network]]s, it forms part of the nascent field of [[network science]].<ref name=":1">{{cite journal|journal=Science |year=2009 |volume=323 |number=5916 |pages=892–895 |doi=10.1126/science.1165821 |pmid=19213908 |title=Network Analysis in the Social Sciences |first1=Stephen P. |last1=Borgatti |first2=Ajay |last2=Mehra |first3=Daniel J. |last3=Brass |first4=Giuseppe |last4=Labianca|bibcode=2009Sci...323..892B |citeseerx=10.1.1.536.5568 }}</ref><ref name="EK">{{cite book|title=Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World |first1=David |last1=Easley |first2=Jon |last2=Kleinberg |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2010 |chapter=Overview |pages=1–20 |isbn=978-0-521-19533-1}}</ref> | Social networks and the analysis of them is an inherently [[Interdisciplinarity|interdisciplinary]] academic field which emerged from [[social psychology]], [[sociology]], [[statistics]], and [[graph theory]]. [[Georg Simmel]] authored early structural theories in sociology emphasizing the dynamics of triads and "web of group affiliations".<ref name=":0">{{cite book|last1=Scott |first1=W. Richard |last2=Davis |first2=Gerald F. |author-link1= William Richard Scott|author-link2= Gerald F. Davis|title=Organizations and Organizing |chapter=Networks In and Around Organizations |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-13-195893-7 |publisher=Pearson Prentice Hall}}</ref> [[Jacob Moreno]] is credited with developing the first [[sociogram]]s in the 1930s to study interpersonal relationships. These approaches were mathematically formalized in the 1950s and theories and methods of social networks became pervasive in the [[Social science|social and behavioral sciences]] by the 1980s.<ref name="WF94CH1" /><ref name="Freeman History">{{cite book|last=Freeman |first=Linton |year=2004 |publisher=Empirical Press |isbn=978-1-59457-714-7 |title=The Development of Social Network Analysis: A Study in the Sociology of Science}}</ref> [[Social network analysis]] is now one of the major paradigms in contemporary sociology, and is also employed in a number of other social and formal sciences. Together with other [[complex network]]s, it forms part of the nascent field of [[network science]].<ref name=":1">{{cite journal|journal=Science |year=2009 |volume=323 |number=5916 |pages=892–895 |doi=10.1126/science.1165821 |pmid=19213908 |title=Network Analysis in the Social Sciences |first1=Stephen P. |last1=Borgatti |first2=Ajay |last2=Mehra |first3=Daniel J. |last3=Brass |first4=Giuseppe |last4=Labianca|bibcode=2009Sci...323..892B |citeseerx=10.1.1.536.5568 }}</ref><ref name="EK">{{cite book|title=Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World |first1=David |last1=Easley |first2=Jon |last2=Kleinberg |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2010 |chapter=Overview |pages=1–20 |isbn=978-0-521-19533-1}}</ref> |