What is the “Accuracy” of Social Network Cognition :

A Comparative Study of Analytic Effectiveness of Consensus Structure and Locally Aggregated Structure in Local Politician's Networks

Abstract

     The cognitive social network analysis, David Krackhardt proposed, started from the problems that how we can collect social network data more “accurately”. The problem that the frameworks of cognitive social network analysis presented is that there may be another constructing way of whole network than Locally Aggregated Structure on which we have ever depended.
     In this paper, I show the stream of cognitive social network analysis study and analyze social network data of local politicians of a town in Yamanashi prefecture with it. In this analysis I examine the difference of the analytic effectiveness of consensus structure (CS) and locally aggregated structure (LAS), and I scrutinize the problems which cognitive social network analysis presented.