SOCIOL 208B Reading Schedule (Spring 2022)

1 Week 1: Networks As Theory and Perspective

1.1 Tue., Mar. 29

  • Marsden, P. V., & Laumann, E. O. (1984). Mathematical Ideas In Social Structural Analysis. Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 10(3-4), 271-294. [pdf]
  • Wellman, B. (1988). Structural Analysis: From Method and Metaphor To Theory and Substance. In B. Wellman & S. D. Berkowitz (Eds.), Social Structures: A Network Approach. (Pp. 19–61). Cambridge University Press. [pdf]
  • Emirbayer, M. (1997). Manifesto For A Relational Sociology. American Journal of Sociology, 103(2), 281–317. [pdf]

1.2 Thu., Mar. 31

  • Erikson, E. (2013). Formalist and Relationalist Theory In Social Network Analysis. Sociological Theory, 31(3), 219–242. [pdf]
  • Emirbayer, M., & Goodwin, J. (1994). Network Analysis, Culture, and The Problem of Agency. American Journal of Sociology, 99(6), 1411–1454. [pdf]
  • Mische, A. (2011). Relational Sociology, Culture, and Agency. In J. Scott & P. J. Carrington (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis (Pp. 80–97). Sage. [pdf]

2 Week 2: The Greatest Hits

2.1 Tue., Apr. 5

  • White, H. C., Boorman, S. A., & Breiger, R. L. (1976). Social Structure From Multiple Networks. I. Blockmodels of Roles and Positions. American Journal of Sociology, 81(4), 730–780. [pdf]
  • Breiger, R. L. (1974). The Duality of Persons and Groups. Social Forces, 53(2), 181–190. [pdf]
  • Freeman, L. C. (1978). Centrality in social networks conceptual clarification. Social networks, 1(3), 215-239. [pdf]

2.2 Thu., Apr. 7

  • Granovetter, M. S. (1973). The Strength of Weak Ties. American Journal of Sociology, 78(3), 1360–1380. [pdf]
  • Rejection letter from American Sociological Review of the first (1969) version of the paper [pdf]
  • Granovetter, M. S. (1969) ``Alienation Reconsidered: The Strength of Weak Ties.’’ Reprinted in Connections 5(2): 4-16. [pdf]
  • Centola, D., & Macy, M. (2007). Complex Contagions and the Weakness of Long Ties. American Journal of Sociology, 113(3), 702-734. [pdf]
  • McPherson, M., Smith-Lovin, L., & Cook, J. M. (2001). Birds of a feather: Homophily in social networks. Annual Review of Sociology, 27(1), 415-444. [pdf]

3 Week 3: Brokerage and Intermediation

3.1 Tue., Apr. 12

  • Gould, R. V., & Fernandez, R. M. (1989). Structures of Mediation: A Formal Approach To Brokerage In Transaction Networks. Sociological Methodology, 89-126. [pdf]
  • Obstfeld, D., Borgatti, S.P. and Davis, J. (2014). Brokerage As a Process: Decoupling Third Party Action From Social Network Structure. Research In The Sociology of Organizations, 40), 135-159. [pdf]
  • Stovel, K., & Shaw, L. (2012). Brokerage. Annual Review of Sociology, 38, 139-158. [pdf]

3.2 Thu., Apr. 14

  • Burt, R. S. (2004). Structural Holes and Good Ideas. American Journal of Sociology, 110(2), 349-399.[pdf]
  • Goldberg, A., Srivastava, S. B., Manian, V. G., Monroe, W., & Potts, C. (2016). Fitting In Or Standing Out? The Tradeoffs of Structural and Cultural Embeddedness. American Sociological Review, 81(6), 1190-1222. [pdf]
  • Aral, S., & Van Alstyne, M. (2011). The diversity-bandwidth trade-off. American Journal of Sociology, 117(1), 90-171. [pdf]

4 Week 4: Networks In Science

4.1 Tue., Apr. 19

  • Moody, J. (2004). The Structure of A Social Scientific Collaboration Network. American Sociological Review, 69, 213-238. [pdf]
  • Shwed, U., & Bearman, P. S. (2010). The Temporal Structure of Scientific Consensus Formation. American Sociological Review, 75(6), 817-840. [pdf]
  • Moody, J., & Light, R. (2006). A view from above: The evolving sociological landscape. The American Sociologist, 37(2), 67-86. [pdf]

4.2 Thu., Apr. 21

  • Foster, J. G., Rzhetsky, A., & Evans, J. A. (2015). Tradition and Innovation In Scientists’ Research Strategies. American Sociological Review, 80(5), 875-908. [pdf]
  • Mcmahan, P., & Mcfarland, D. A. (2021). Creative Destruction: The Structural Consequences of Scientific Curation. American Sociological Review, 86(2), 341-376. [pdf]

5 Week 5: Collaboration, Creativity, and Field Dynamics

5.1 Tue., Apr. 26

  • Vedres, B., & Stark, D. (2010). Structural Folds: Generative Disruption In Overlapping Groups. American Journal of Sociology, 115(4), 1150-1190. [pdf]
  • Uzzi, B, & Spiro, J. (2005). Collaboration and Creativity: The Small World Problem. American Journal of Sociology, 111, 447-504. [pdf]

5.2 Thu., Apr. 28

  • Powell, W. W., White, D. R., Koput, K. W., & Owen-Smith, J. (2005). Network Dynamics and Field Evolution: The Growth of Interorganizational Collaboration In The Life Sciences. American Journal of Sociology, 110(4), 1132-1205. [pdf]
  • Rossman, G., Esparza, N., & Bonacich, P. (2010). I’d Like To Thank The Academy, Team Spillovers, and Network Centrality. American Sociological Review, 75(1), 31-51. [pdf]

6 Week 6: Networks and Culture and Culture in Networks

6.1 Tue., May. 3

  • Breiger, R. L. (2010). Dualities of culture and structure: Seeing through cultural holes. Pp. 37-47 in Relationale soziologie. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. [pdf]
  • Lizardo, 0. (2023). Culture and Networks. Pp. 188-201 in The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis. SAGE Publications Ltd. [pdf]
  • Lewis, K., & Kaufman, J. (2018). The Conversion of Cultural Tastes Into Social Network Ties. American Journal of Sociology, 123(6), 1684-1742. [pdf]

6.2 Thu., May. 5

  • Fuhse, J. A. (2009). The Meaning Structure of Social Networks. Sociological Theory, 27(1), 51-73. [pdf]
  • Ikegami, E. (2000). A Sociological Theory of Publics: Identity and Culture As Emergent Properties In Networks. Social Research, 989-1029. [pdf]
  • Mützel, S., & Breiger, R. (2021). Duality Beyond Persons and Groups. In The Oxford Handbook of Social Networks. Oxford University Press. [pdf]

7 Week 7: Difussion In Networks

7.1 Tue., May. 10

  • Dellaposta, D., Shi, Y., & Macy, M. (2015) Why Do Liberals Drink Lattes?. American Journal of Sociology, 120(5), 1473-1511. [pdf]
  • Centola, D. (2015). The social origins of networks and diffusion. American Journal of Sociology, 120(5), 1295-1338. [pdf]
  • Becker, S. O., Hsiao, Y., Pfaff, S., & Rubin, J. (2020). Multiplex Network Ties and the Spatial Diffusion of Radical Innovations: Martin Luther’s Leadership In The Early Reformation. American Sociological Review, 85(5), 857-894. [pdf]

7.2 Thu., May. 12

  • Goldberg, A., & Stein, S. K. (2018). Beyond Social Contagion: Associative Diffusion and The Emergence of Cultural Variation. American Sociological Review, 83(5), 897-932. [pdf]
  • Bail, C. A., Brown, T. W., & Mann, M. (2017). Channeling hearts and minds: Advocacy organizations, cognitive-emotional currents, and public conversation. American Sociological Review, 82(6), 1188-1213. [pdf]

8 Week 8: Networks In History

8.1 Tue., May. 17

  • Padgett, J. F., & Ansell, C. K. (1993). Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434. American Journal of Sociology, 98(6), 1259–1319. [pdf]
  • Gould, R. V. (1991). Multiple Networks and Mobilization In The Paris Commune, 1871. American Sociological Review, 56(6), 716-729. [pdf]
  • Erikson, E., & Feltham, E. (2021). Historical Network Research. In The Oxford Handbook of Social Networks. Oxford University Press. [pdf]

8.2 Thu., May. 19

  • Erikson, E., & Bearman, P. (2006). Malfeasance and the Foundations For Global Trade: The Structure of English Trade In The East Indies, 1601–1833. American Journal of Sociology, 112(1), 195-230. [pdf]
  • Bearman, P., Faris, R., & Moody, J. (1999). Blocking The Future: New Solutions For Old Problems In Historical Social Science. Social Science History, 23(4), 501-533. [pdf]

9 Week 9: Networks and Inequality

9.1 Tue., May. 24

  • Gould, R. V. (2002). The Origins of Status Hierarchies: A Formal Theory and Empirical Test. American Journal of Sociology, 107(5), 1143-1178. [pdf]
  • Gondal, N. (2015). Inequality preservation through uneven diffusion of Cultural materials across stratified groups. Social Forces, 93(3), 1109-1137. [pdf]
  • Thomas, R. J., & Mark, N. P. (2013). Population size, network density, and the emergence of inherited inequality. Social Forces, 92(2), 521-544. [pdf]

9.2 Thu., May. 26

  • Burris, V. (2004). The Academic Caste System: Prestige Hierarchies In PhD Exchange Networks. American Sociological Review, 69, 239-264. [pdf]
  • Fowler, J. H., Grofman, B., & Masuoka, N. (2007). Social networks in political science: Hiring and placement of Ph.Ds, 1960–2002. PS: Political Science & Politics, 40(4), 729-739. [pdf]
  • Clauset, A., Arbesman, S., & Larremore, D. B. (2015). Systematic inequality and hierarchy in faculty hiring networks. Science Advances, 1(1), e1400005. [pdf]
  • Gondal, N. (2018). Duality of departmental specializations and PhD exchange: A Weberian analysis of status in interaction using multilevel exponential random graph models (mERGM). Social Networks, 55, 202-212. [pdf]