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Ronald L. Breiger Professor
of Sociology Personal page: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~breiger/ |
Education: A.B. Brandeis; PhD at Harvard University.
Research interests: Sociological theory; Quantitative methodology; Objects and methods of cultural analysis; Social networks and research methods in social network analysis; Mathematical models, theory. measurement issues; Cultural and institutional analysis; Stratification and mobility; Sociology of rights, justice, and law.
Present positions: Directors’ Fellow, Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy (http://udallcenter.arizona.edu/personnel/fellows.php) ● Board of Advisory Editors, Poetics.
Awards and acknowledgments: 2005 George Simmel Award, International Network for Social Network Analysis ( http://www.insna.org/awards/simmel.html)
SOME PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE ON THE WEB
(Moslty available at Professor Breiger's web page: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~breiger/)
(2005) R.L. Breiger, Ethical dilemmas in social network research: Introduction to special issue. Social Networks 27/2: 89 - 93 (http://www.u.arizona.edu/~breiger/2005BreigerIntroEthics.pdf)
(2004) John Sonnett and Ronald Breiger, How relational methods matter. Culture 19/1: 1, 8-10 (preprint: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~breiger/SonnettBreiger.htm)
(2003) 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 (http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10735)
(2002) Philippa E. Pattison and R.L. Breiger, Lattices and dimensional representations: Matrix decompositions and ordering structures. Social Networks 24: 423-444 (http://www.u.arizona.edu/~breiger/PEPRLBSN02.pdf)
(2002) 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, 295-305 (http://www.u.arizona.edu/~breiger/RSOproof.pdf)
(2002) R.L. Breiger, Writing (and quantifying) sociology. In Jonathan Monroe, ed., Writing and Revising the Disciplines. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, pp. 90-112 (preprint: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~breiger/Writing.pdf)
(2000) David Stark, Szabolcs Kemeny, and R.L. Breiger, Postsocialist portfolios: Network strategies in the shadow of the state." Hungarian Journal Közgazdasági Szemle, 47: 393-405 (Part I) and 47: 430-445 (Part II) (manuscript: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~breiger/Portfolios.pdf)
(2000) R.L. Breiger, A tool kit for practice theory. Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts 27: 91-115 (http://www.u.arizona.edu/~breiger/Breiger_Toolkit.pdf)
(1999) 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 (http://www.u.arizona.edu/~breiger/Hanbreig.pdf)
(1998) 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 (http://www.u.arizona.edu/~breiger/breigrobpdf.pdf)
(1995) R.L. Breiger, Social structure and the phenomenology of attainment. Annual Review of Sociology 21: 115-136 (http://www.u.arizona.edu/~breiger/Phenom.pdf)
(1976) Harrison C. White, Scott A. Boorman, and Ronald L. Breiger, Social structure from multiple networks. I: Blockmodels of roles and positions, American Journal of Sociology, volume 81 ((http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/CITE-IT/Documents/White%20etal%201976%20Social%20structure%20from%20multiple%20nets.pdf).
Working papers and drafts:
(2009) 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 (draft: http://www.uga.edu/gcph/BreigerApril2008.pdf)
(2005) R.L. Breiger, Culture and classification in markets: An introduction. Poetics 33 (3-4) (draft: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~breiger/Poetics33-4Intro.pdf)
(2005) Yanjie Bian, Ronald Breiger, Deborah Davis, and Joseph Galaskiewicz, Occupation, class, and social networks in urban China (draft: http://base.china-europa-forum.net/rsc/docs/doc_566.pdf)
(2005) R.L. Breiger, Culture and classification in markets: An introduction (draft: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~breiger/Poetics33-4Intro.pdf)
(2004) R.L. Breiger, The analysis of social networks, in M. Hardy and A. Bryman (eds.), Handbook of Data Analysis,. Pp. 505-526, Sage Publications (excerpts from draft: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~breiger/NetworkAnalysis.pdf)
(1974) Ronald L. Breiger, Scott A. Boorman and Phipps Arabie, An algorithm for blocking relational data, with applications to social network analysis and comparison with multidimensional scaling (Technical report: http://suppes-corpus.stanford.edu/techreports/IMSSS_244.pdf)
(----)Ray-May Hsung, Ronald Breiger, Relation-specific social resources and their explanation: Comparison among Taiwan, China and United States (http://www.ios.sinica.edu.tw/ios/seminar/socialcapital2008/2-Hsung.pdf)Updated: January 26, 2010