(1979). Social Networks and Psychology. Connections, 2 - INSNA

NETWORK NOTEBOOKTheEditors'Request . . . .Now midway through our second year of INSNA, our current membership is at around 300 with less than100 who failed to renew since last year. These numbers reflect the great interest in network analyticapproaches to the analysis of phenomena . Membership applications have come in waves across a wide rangeof disciplines and from many different parts of the world as members' own networks link up with thoseof others . Early waves of membership included sociology, information science and geography disciplinaryaffiliations and were closely followed by anthropology and political science . Half-way through our firstyear, membership links went out to mass communications, social work, psychiatry and psychology in approximatelythat order . Libraries are now keeping Connections on their shelves and a number of research projectsfind our issues a logical source of information for review of the approach .To sustain and stimulate this interest in network analytic approaches, the Editors' request a continuingflow of submissions, ideas, content, etc ., particularly current information on meetings, new books,recent theses, relevant abstracts, and useful computer programs . Papers which review fields or areas ofinterest are especially of value to members desiring to keep up with this rapidly expanding approach .This Notebook section can also advertise 'help wanted' or 'help available' advertisements : recent items ofthis nature have called for assistance in reviews of literature or studies in a particular specialty .A continued flow of contributions ensures that Connections is produced 'on time' : that is, one issueper term (Issue number 1 during August-December, number 2 during January-April, number 3 during May-July) .The current issue is behind schedule due to the 'friction of distance' between the Editors' offices inToronto, where Barry Leighton is located, and Wassenaar, The Netherlands, where Barry Wellman is locateduntil the end of July . We produced this when we had received an 'appropriate' volume of suitablecontent . In addition, our network of voluntary assistance for production has been changing the computerizedmembership over to a more flexible program on our neighbourhood interactive terminal .EuropeanEditor :In response to our growing European membership Wolfgang Bick has agreed to act as our European Editor .He has already requested and begun gathering research reports, papers, comments, notes, etc . from his sideof the Atlantic . He is anxious to promote special sessions at national and international meetings andinvites suggestions, information, etc . accordingly .Our European Editor's address is : Dr . Wolfgang Bick,Institute fur Angewandte Sozialforschung,Universitat zu Kiiln,Greinstrasse 2,5 Koln 41,WEST GERMANY .Next Issue of Connections :Volume II, Number 3 (Summer) is scheduled for around August, 1979 with a deadline for submissionsbefore the end of August . It will consist largely of a new, revised MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY which will assistmembers in contacting others interested in similar fields, and generally to 'oil the linkages' .Thanks for the Current Issue :Editorial thanks go to those contributors who submitted camera-ready copy . However, please note thatsubmissions in other format does not, by any means, preclude their publication . We would rather receivesubmissions in alternate form than not receive them at all . In fact members could send in photo-copiesof abstracts, meetings, etc . with a scribbled note to alert us that they are for Connections . BarryLeighton, our Associate Editor who has produced this and the past couple of issues thanks for theirassistance : Cathy Morrissey for typing and membership list updating and Colleen Leighton, ChristinaMarmoreo and Liviana Mostacci-Calzavara for proof-reading .Information FlowsRonald Burt is Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology at S .U .N .Y . - Albany .Charles Kadushin has moved to the Center for Social Research, Graduate Center, City University ofNew York .