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While some content, that the blockmodeling is just clustering methods, [[Phillip Bonacich|Bonacich]] and [[Maureen J. McConaghy|McConaghy]] state, that "it is a theoretically grounded and algebraic approach to the analysis of the structure of relations". Blockmodeling's unique ability lies in the fact, that it considers the structure not just as a set of direct relations, but also take into a fact all other possible compound relations, that are based on the direct ones.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bonacich |first1=Phillip |last2=McConaghy |first2=Maureen J. |date=1980 |title=The Algebra of Blockmodeling |url= |journal=Sociological Methodology |volume=11 |issue= |pages=489–532 |doi=10.2307/270873 }}</ref>
The principles of blockmodeling were first introduced by [[Francois Lorrain]] and [[Harrison C. White]] in 1971.<ref name="Examples, 1999, pp. 5–34"/> Blockmodeling is considered as "an important set of network analytic tools" as it deals with delineation of role structures (the well-defined places in social structures, also known as positions) and the discerning the fundamental structure of social networks.<ref name="gener-black">{{Cite book |last1=Doreian |first1=Patrick |last2=Batagelj |first2=Vladimir |last3=Ferligoj |first3=Anuška |title=Generalized Blackmodeling |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=2005 |isbn=0-521-84085-6}}</ref>{{rp|2, 3}} According to [[Vladimir Batagelj|Batagelj]], the primary "goal of blockmodeling is to reduce a large, potentially incoherent network to a smaller comprehensible structure that can be interpreted more readily".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Batagelj |first1=Vladimir |date=1999 |title=Generalized Blockmodeling |url= |journal=Informatica |volume=23 |issue= |pages=501-506 |doi=}}</ref> Blockmodeling was at first used for analysis in [[sociometry]] and [[
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