HISTORY OF GENESIS AND ESTABLISHMENT OF NETWORK ANALYSIS
The network analysis is becoming a popular methodology in the social and natural sciences. As for social sciences, it is an effective methodology in social and policy studies. Some scientists separate this methodology in an independent network science, which meets the criteria for normal science in Thomas Kuhn terminology. Frequently, the network analysis is used in the applied researches. Usually, theoretical part of the researches contains the theory and related works in respect to the object and subject of research. At the base case, the theoretical part consists of the graph theory mathematical metrics, which is used in the researches. Rarely, researches comprise the question of genesis and establishment of methodology and, in particular, the network analysis. For example, anthropologists and physiologists are dreaming about mathematical methods to measure social structure. In this case, the stage of network analysis’s genesis one can describe as the chaotic mixture of different scientists related to various disciplines. The tradition of the network analysis started in the 1930s with the sociometry and nowadays it is doubtlessly the interdisciplinary scientific approach, which can become a new independent science.