Linton Clarke Freeman (1927 – August 17, 2018) was an American

structuralist Structuralism is an intellectual current and methodological approach, primarily in the social sciences, that interprets elements of human culture by way of their relationship to a broader system. It works to uncover the structural patterns tha ...

sociologist known for his work in

social networks A social network is a social structure consisting of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), networks of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors. The social network perspective provides a set of meth ...

. He was an emeritus professor of sociology at the

University of California, Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Irvine, California, United States. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, U ...

. Freeman developed the first measure of

betweenness centrality In graph theory, betweenness centrality is a measure of centrality in a graph based on shortest paths. For every pair of vertices in a connected graph, there exists at least one shortest path between the vertices, that is, there exists at leas ...

. He was the founding editor of the journal ''

Social Networks A social network is a social structure consisting of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), networks of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors. The social network perspective provides a set of meth ...

'' which began publishing in 1979. Freeman died on August 17, 2018, at the age of 91.

Book

Freeman, Linton C. 2004. ''The Development of Social Network Analysis: A Study in the Sociology of Science.'' Vancouver: Empirical Press.

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Linton C Freeman
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