074 - Thematic Session. Networks and Sexual Behaviors

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

Sociologists have been developing novel approaches to studying the relationship between social networks and sexual behaviors. These efforts have spanned topics as varied as partnership networks and disease diffusion, statistical models leveraging social network structure to understand sexual behaviors, network-based approaches to recruit samples of hidden and marginalized at-risk populations, and the uses of the internet to collect and analyze social networks data to understand the multiple forms patterns of sexual behaviors. Participants in this session will present cutting-edge research and innovative approaches in the measurement, collection and modeling of social network data to better understand the transmission of STIs and HIV, partnership formation, adolescent sexual behaviors and the study of sexuality in the digital age.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizer

• M. Giovanna Merli, Duke University

Presider

• M. Giovanna Merli, Duke University

Individual Presentations

• Interdependent Effects of Cohesion and Concurrency for Epidemic Potential - James Moody, Duke University; Richard Benton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Social Contexts, Sexual Networks, and Racial-Ethnic Disparities in STDs: An Investigation using Agent-based Models - Kate W. Strully, State University of New York-Albany; Peter S. Bearman, Columbia University; Byungkyu Lee, Columbia University

• Networks, Sampling, and the Groups Most-at-Risk for HIV/AIDS - Matthew J. Salganik, Princeton University

• Measuring Sexual Networks using Sampled Data - Tyler McCormick, University of Washington

Discussant

• Andrew V. Papachristos, Yale University