Theorizing gender in social network research: What we do and what we can do differently

• Main Authors: BRANDS, Raina, ERTUG, Gokhan, FONTI, Fabio, TASSELLI, Stefano
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Gender; Social networks; Cognition; Organization theory; Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6948; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7947/viewcontent/TheorizingGenderSN_sv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We review the ways in which gender is theorized in social network research and propose an alternative approach for future research to consider. To assess “what we do,” we undertake an evaluative review. In that review, we first examine how gender is typically theorized in structural approaches to so...