Pluralidad teórica, metodológica y técnica en el abordaje de las redes sociales: hacia la “hibridación” disciplinaria

Abstract

Discussing on some works that have been presented in the nineth volume of the Journal Redes. Revista Hispana para el análisis de las redes sociales, this article incorporates a group of reflections on interesting questions today in the analysis of social networks, arguing that this specific area of analysis is established in a crossing of interdisciplinary roads that contributes recently with additional ideas for the comprehension of the social networks and the way of functioning of some parts of our society. If we analyse the contributions in a global perspective, and even analyzing some of them particularly, they can be understood as plural answers (in a theoretical, methodological and technical point of view) to prominent questions in the social sciences and others, and they expand our comprehension of the social world. They also suggest new questions to carry on with the reflections. Combining ideas, procedures, etc. of diverse sciences at the service of the Social Network Analysis could be understood as no more than practising a productive disciplinary hybridization with interesting contributions.

Keywords

• Social Networks
• Disciplinary hybridization
• Theoretical
• methodological and technical plurality