Blaunet

MaRDI QIDQ95439CRANFDO

Authors Cheng Wang, Michael Genkin, George Berry, Liyuan Chen, Matthew Brashears

Last update 28 September 2026

Copyright license GNU General Public License, version 3.0

Software version identifier 2.2.1, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.6, 2.0.7, 2.0.8, 2.0.9, 2.1.0, PACKAGES.rds, 3.0.0

Description

Calculate and analyze Blau statuses for quantifying social distance between individuals belonging to organizations. Relational (network) data can be incorporated for additional analyses. The methods build on affiliation ecology and Blau space as described by McPherson (1983) <doi:10.2307/2117719>, McPherson and Ranger-Moore (1991) <doi:10.1093/sf/70.1.19>, McPherson, Popielarz and Drobnic (1992) <doi:10.2307/2096202>, McPherson and Rotolo (1996) <doi:10.2307/2096330>, and McPherson (2004) <doi:10.1093/icc/13.1.263>. The implementation of Blau-space analyses in 'Blaunet' is described by Genkin et al. (2018) <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0204990>. This project is supported by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Grant HDTRA-10-1-0043.

Cites work

• A Blau space primer: prolegomenon to an ecology of affiliation
• An Ecology of Affiliation
• Blaunet: An R-based graphical user interface package to analyze Blau space
• Social Networks and Organizational Dynamics
• Testing a Dynamic Model of Social Composition: Diversity and Change in Voluntary Groups

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