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


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 and Behavioral-Cultural Modeling. Springer (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), 2011.


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.


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).


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. 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 and individuals.” Pp. 3-27 in Hsung, Lin, and Breiger (2009), 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.


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.