Role Identification of Social Networkers

Most of the definitions of roles in network analysis have their origin mainly in sociological and psychological research, where social roles are treated as “cultural objects that are recognized, accepted and used to accomplish pragmatic interaction goals in a community” [Gleave 2009]. Sociological research emphasizes the importance of relations to others and expectations for systematic behavior. So roles describe the intersection of behavioral, meaningful and structural attributes that emerge regularly in particular settings and institutions [Welser 2011].