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Ronald Breiger (A.B. Brandeis, 1970; PhD Harvard, 1975) taught at Harvard (Assistant to Associate Professor) and Cornell (Professor to Goldwin Smith Professor of Sociology) before coming to the University of Arizona as a visiting professor in 1999 and as a tenured faculty member in the Department of Sociology in 2000. His interests include social networks, stratification, mathematical models, theory, and measurement issues in cultural and institutional analysis.
R.B. joined Linton Freeman as Editor of the journal Social Networks from 1998 to 2006.
The editors of Social Networks are now Patrick Doreian and Tom A.B. Snijders.
Search for, read or download the full text of any articles in Social Networks!
Some of his courses: Sociology of Rights, Justice, and Law (Soc 345), Sociological Theory (Soc 500A), Objects and Methods of Cultural Analysis (Soc 509), Research Methods in Social Network Analysis (Soc 526) , Adv. Topics in Stratification (Soc 552) .
Selected publications and papers:
Ray-May Hsung,
Ray-May Hsung
and R.L. Breiger, “Position generators, affiliations, and the
institutional logics of social capital: A study of
R.L. Breiger, “Culture and Classification in Markets: An Introduction.” Poetics 33 (3-4), 2005. Read it online via ScienceDirect.
Yanjie Bian, Ronald Breiger, Deborah Davis, and
Joseph Galaskiewicz, "Occupation, Class, and Social Networks in Urban
R.L. Breiger, “Ethical Dilemmas in Social Network Research: Introduction to Special Issue.” Social Networks 27 / 2 (2005): 89 – 93. Read it online. Read all of issue 27 / 2 online at ScienceDirect.
John Sonnett and Ronald Breiger, "How Relational Methods Matter." Culture 19:1 (2004): 1, 8-10. Read it online. 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.
R.L. Breiger, “The Analysis of Social Networks.” Pp. 505–526 in Handbook
of Data Analysis, edited by Melissa Hardy and Alan Bryman.
Ronald Breiger, Kathleen Carley,
and Philippa Pattison (editors), Dynamic Social
Network Modeling and Analysis: Workshop Summary and Papers.
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).
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. Read the full text via Elsevier Science Direct.
R.L. Breiger, “Writing (and
Quantifying) Sociology.” In Jonathan Monroe,
ed., Writing and Revising the Disciplines.
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
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.
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.