R.L. Breiger -- Selected publications and papers (click to see more):

Matthew Dabkowski, Ronald Breiger, and Ferenc Szidarovszky, “Simuntaneous-Direct Blockmodeling for Multiple Relations in Pajek.” Social Networks, accepted for publication.

R.L. Breiger and Kyle Puetz, “Culture and Networks.” International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd. ed., in press (2015). -- read the manuscript online.

Ronald L. Breiger and David Melamed, “The Duality of Organizations and their Attributes: Turning Regression Modeling ‘Inside Out.’” Research in the Sociology of Organizations 40 (2014): 261-274. (Volume on Contemporary Perspectives on Organizational Social Network Analysis edited by Stephen P. Borgatti, Daniel J. Brass, Daniel S. Halgin, Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca, and Ajay Mehra.)  -- Table of Contents -- read the full text.

Ronald L. Breiger, Eric Schoon, David Melamed, Victor Asal, and R. Karl Rethemeyer. “Comparative configurational analysis as a two-mode network problem: A study of terrorist group engagement in the drug trade.” Social Networks 36 (2014): 23-39. -- read the full text online.

John W. Mohr, Robin Wagner-Pacifici, Ronald L. Breiger, and Petko Bogdanov. “Graphing the grammar of motives in U.S. National Security Strategies: Cultural interpretation, automated text analysis and the drama of global politics.” Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media, and the Arts 41 (2013): 670-700. -- read the full text online.

Barbara J. Mills, Jeffrey J. Clark, Matthew A. Peeples, W.R. Haas, Jr., J.M. Roberts, Jr., J.B. Hill, D.L. Huntley, L. Borck, R.L. Breiger, A. Clauset, and M.S. Shackley, “Transformation of social networks in the late pre-Hispanic US Southwest.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA [PNAS] 110 (15): 5785-5790 (2013). -- read the full text and supporting information [17 pages]

Barbara J. Mills, John M. Roberts, Jeffery J. Clark, William R. Haas Jr., Deborah Huntley, Matthew A. Peeples, Lewis Borck, Susan C. Ryan, Meaghan Trowbridge and Ronald L. Breiger, “The Dynamics of Social Networks in the Late Prehispanic U.S. Southwest.” In Carl Knappett (ed.), Network Analysis in Archaeology: New Approaches to Regional Interaction. Oxford University Press, 2013.

David Melamed, R.L. Breiger, and A. Joseph West, “Community structure in multi-mode networks: Applying an eigenspectrum approach.” Connections 33(1), 2013: 18-23.

Ray-May Hsung and R.L. Breiger, “Similarities and Differences in Relation-Specific Social Resources among Three Societies: Taiwan, China, and the United States.” In press in Nan Lin, Yang-chih Fu, and Chih-jou Jay Chen (eds.), Social Capital and its Institutional Contingency: A Study of the United States, China, and Taiwan. New York: Routledge (2013): 83-98.

David Melamed, Ronald L. Breiger, and Eric Schoon, “The Duality of Clusters and Statistical Interactions.” Sociological Methods & Research 42 (2013): 41-59.  -- read the full text -- download the software

D. Melamed, E. Schoon, R. Breiger, V. Asal, and R.K. Rethemeyer, “Using Organizational Similarity to Identify Statistical Interactions for Improving Situational Awareness of CBRN Activities.” Pp. 61-68 in S.J. Yang, A.M. Greenberg, and M. Endsley (eds.), Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction. Springer (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7227), 2012. -- read the full text -- download the software

R.L. Breiger, G.A. Ackerman, V. Asal, D. Melamed, H.B. Milward, R.K. Rethemeyer, E. Schoon, “Application of a Profile Similarity Methodology for Identifying Terrorist Groups that Use or Pursue CBRN Weapons.” Pp. 26-33 in J. Salerno, S.J. Yang, D. Nau, S.-K. Chai (eds.), Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction. Springer (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6589), 2011. -- read the full text

R.L. Breiger, “ Baruch Spinoza: Monism and Complementarity.” Pp. 255-62 in Chirstofer Edling and Jens Rydgren (eds.), Sociological Insights of Great Thinkers: Sociology Through Literature, Philosophy, and Science, Praeger (2011).

Jennifer Schultz and R.L. Breiger, “The Strength of Weak Culture.” Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media, and the Arts 38 (Dec. 2010): 610-24. -- read the full text

R.L. Breiger, “Dualities of Culture and Structure: Seeing through Cultural Holes.” Pp. 37-47 in Jan Fuhse and Sophie Mützel (eds.), Relationale Soziologie: Zur kulturellen Wende der Netzwerkforschung [Relational Sociology: The Cultural Turn in Network Research]. VS Verlag (2010). -- read full text

Mark A. Pachucki and R.L. Breiger, “Cultural Holes: Beyond Relationality in Social Networks and Culture.” Annual Review of Sociology 36 (2010): 205-224.

R.L. Breiger, “On the Duality of Cases and Variables: Correspondence Analysis (CA) and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA).” Pp. 243-59 in David Byrne and Charles C. Ragin (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Case-Based Methods. London: Sage, 2009. -- Read the “Discussion” section.

Ray-May Hsung, Nan Lin, and Ronald L. Breiger (eds.) Contexts of Social Capital: Social Networks in Markets, Communities, and Families. New York and London: Routledge, 2009 (paperback ed. 2012). -- Read review by Mario Small.

Ray-May Hsung and R.L. Breiger, “Position generators, affiliations, and the institutional logics of social capital: A study of Taiwan firms ad individuals.”  Pp. 3-27 in Hsung, Lin, and Breiger (2009, 2012), ibid.

R.L. Breiger, “The Analysis of Social Networks.” Pp. 505–526 in Handbook of Data Analysis, edited by Melissa Hardy and Alan Bryman. London: Sage Publications, [2004] 2009, paperback ed. -- read a selection

R.L. Breiger, “Comment [on Mark S. Handcock, Adrian E. Raftery, and Jeremy M. Tantrum, Model-Based Clustering for Social Networks],” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 170 (2007): 332-33.

R.L. Breiger, “Culture and Classification in Markets: An Introduction.” Poetics 33 (3-4), 2005.

Yanjie Bian, Ronald Breiger, Deborah Davis, and Joseph Galaskiewicz, “Occupation, Class, and Social Networks in Urban China.” Social Forces 83 (2005): 1443-1468.

    Chinese-language version of Bian et al., in Jean Hung and Hsin-chi Kuan (eds.), Studies on the Beginning of 21st Century China by Chinese and Western Scholars. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press (2009), pp. 395-417.

R.L. Breiger, “Ethical Dilemmas in Social Network Research: Introduction to Special Issue.” Social Networks 27 / 2 (2005): 89 – 93.

John Sonnett and Ronald Breiger, "How Relational Methods Matter." Culture 19:1 (2004): 1, 8-10.  Read Andrew Perrin’s Reply.

R.L. Breiger and John W. Mohr, “Institutional Logics from the Aggregation of Organizational Networks: Operational Procedures for the Analysis of Counted Data.”  Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory 10 (2004): 17–43. Read the full text of this article at Kluwer on-line.

R.L. Breiger y John W. Mohr (traducción: Isidro Maya Jariego), “La dualidad y la agregación de categorías sociales.” REDES – Revista Hispana para el Análysis de Redes Sociales, 5 (2004).  Read the article on-line.

Ronald Breiger, Kathleen Carley, and Philippa Pattison (editors), Dynamic Social Network Modeling and Analysis: Workshop Summary and Papers.  National Academy of Sciences / National Research Council, Committee on Human Factors.  Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2003.  Read the book on-line, for free!    Read reviews by Sandra Gonzalez and John Skvoretz.

  -- Workshop Summary, ibid., pp. 1-14. Read it on-line.

  --R.L. Breiger, “Emergent Themes in Social Network Analysis: Results,

     Challenges, Opportunities,” ibid., pp. 19-35. Read it on-line.

David Stark, Szabolcs Kemeny, and R.L. Breiger, “Postsocialist Portfolios: Network Strategies in the Shadow of the State.” manuscript in pdf format  Published in the Hungarian journal Közgazdasági Szemle, 47 (2000): 393-405 (Part I) and 47 (2000): 430-445 (Part II). Read English version.

Philippa E. Pattison and R.L. Breiger, “Lattices and Dimensional Representations: Matrix Decompositions and Ordering Structures.” Social Networks 24 (2002): 423-444. Read the full text online via Elsevier Science Direct.

R.L. Breiger, “Poststructuralism in Organizational Studies.” In Michael Lounsbury and Marc J. Ventresca, eds., Social Structure and Organizations Revisited. Research in the Sociology of Organizations (JAI Press / Elsevier Science), vol. 19, 2002, 295–305.

R.L. Breiger, “Writing (and Quantifying) Sociology.” In Jonathan Monroe, ed., Writing and Revising the Disciplines. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002, pp. 90-112. page proofs in pdf format

R.L. Breiger (traducción: Narciso Pizarro), “Control social y redes sociales: Un modelo a partir de Georg Simmel.”  Política y Sociedad 33 (2000): 57 – 72.  article in pdf format

R.L. Breiger, "A Tool Kit for Practice Theory." Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts 27 (2000): 91-115. read the full text via Elsevier Science Direct.

Shin-Kap Han and R.L. Breiger, "Dimensions of Corporate Social Capital: Toward Models and Measures." Pp. 118-133 in Roger Th.A.J. Leenders and Shaul M. Gabbay, eds., Corporate Social Capital and Liability. Boston, Kluwer, 1999. article in pdf format

R.L. Breiger and John M. Roberts, Jr., "Solidarity and Social Networks." Pp. 239-262 in Patrick Doreian and Thomas Fararo, eds., The Problem of Solidarity: Theory and Models. Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach, 1998. article in pdf format

R.L. Breiger, “Social Structure and the Phenomenology of Attainment.” Annual Review of Sociology 21 (1995): 115-136. Read the full text online via JSTOR.