ABSTRACT
Although the influence of family, school, and community for good or evil has long been recognized, the precise processes by which these social environmental factors modify behavior have been only vaguely identified. Social network analysis as developed in anthropology and sociology, coupled with social ecological observations and social learning principles, goes a long way toward providing a theoretical framework that can be fruitfully utilized in investigations of a wide variety of social behaviors at quite different levels of behavioral specificity, as is demonstrated in this volume.
