This paper aims to make the case for the use of simple and interactive visual tools in mixed-method social network analysis (SNA) to inductively collect data on the processes of categorisation and boundary drawing within social networks. We reflect on the methodological benefits of utilising innovative visual tools embedded within a mixed-methods study at the collection, analysis, and interpretation stages of SNA. By discussing an example of our own research, we illustrate how interactive visual tools have the potential to elicit the processes of categorisation and boundary-making within the personal networks of participants. We present findings from our study that collected data in Barcelona (Spain) in 2023 by administering two personal interviews to 48 participants. We conclude that such research design is effective to collect rich data about the presence (or absence) and salience of different types of social boundaries within the participants' networks, how individuals contest or reinforce categories imposed from above in their daily encounters, and the strategies they use to maintain or create new boundaries between and within social groups.
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Seminari impartit per Núria Targarona el 21 de febrer de 2024 (UAB-CoalesceLab)
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