SOCIOL 208B Reading Schedule (Spring 2024)

Week 1: Networks As Theory and Perspective

Tuesday, April 2

  • 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.

  • Freeman, L. (2004). The Development of Social Network Analysis. Vancouver, BC: Empirical Press (Introduction, and Chap. 9)

Thursday, April 4

  • Emirbayer, M. (1997). Manifesto For A Relational Sociology. American Journal of Sociology, 103(2), 281–317.

  • Erikson, E. (2013). Formalist and Relationalist Theory In Social Network Analysis. Sociological Theory, 31(3), 219–242.

  • 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.

Week 2: The Greatest Hits

Tuesday, April 9

  • 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.

  • Breiger, R. L. (1974). The Duality of Persons and Groups. Social Forces, 53(2), 181–190.

  • Freeman, L. C. (1978). Centrality in social networks conceptual clarification. Social networks, 1(3), 215-239.

Thursday, April 11

  • Granovetter, M. S. (1973). The Strength of Weak Ties. American Journal of Sociology, 78(3), 1360–1380.

    • Rejection letter from American Sociological Review of the first (1969) version of the paper
    • Granovetter, M. S. (1969) “Alienation Reconsidered: The Strength of Weak Ties.” Reprinted in Connections 5(2): 4-16.

  • Wang, D., & Uzzi, B. (2022). Weak ties, failed tries, and success. Science, 377(6612), 1256-1258.

  • 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.

Week 3: Brokerage

Tuesday, April 16 (Virtual Meeting)

  • Gould, R. V., & Fernandez, R. M. (1989). Structures of Mediation: A Formal Approach To Brokerage In Transaction Networks. Sociological Methodology, 89-126.

  • 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.

  • Stovel, K., & Shaw, L. (2012). Brokerage. Annual Review of Sociology, 38, 139-158.

Thursday, April 18 (Virtual Meeting)

  • Burt, R. S. (2004). Structural Holes and Good Ideas. American Journal of Sociology, 110(2), 349-399.

  • 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.

  • Aral, S. (2016). The future of weak ties. American Journal of Sociology, 121(6), 1931-1939.

Week 4: Science

Tuesday, April 23

  • Moody, J. (2004). The Structure of A Social Scientific Collaboration Network. American Sociological Review, 69, 213-238.

  • Clauset, A., Arbesman, S., & Larremore, D. B. (2015). Systematic inequality and hierarchy in faculty hiring networks. Science Advances, 1(1), e1400005.

Thursday, April 25

  • 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.

  • Mcmahan, P., & Mcfarland, D. A. (2021). Creative Destruction: The Structural Consequences of Scientific Curation. American Sociological Review, 86(2), 341-376.

  • Shwed, U., & Bearman, P. S. (2010). The Temporal Structure of Scientific Consensus Formation. American Sociological Review, 75(6), 817-840.

Week 5: Collaboration & Creativity

Tuesday, April 30

  • Uzzi, B, & Spiro, J. (2005). Collaboration and Creativity: The Small World Problem. American Journal of Sociology, 111, 447-504.
  • De Vaan, M., Stark, D., & Vedres, B. (2015). Game changer: The topology of creativity. American Journal of Sociology, 120(4), 1144-1194.

Thursday, May 2

  • 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.

  • Choi, Y., Ingram, P., & Han, S. W. (2023). Cultural breadth and embeddedness: The individual adoption of organizational culture as a determinant of creativity. Administrative Science Quarterly, 68(2), 429-464.

  • Silver, D., Childress, C., Lee, M., Slez, A., & Dias, F. (2022). Balancing categorical conventionality in music. American Journal of Sociology, 128(1), 224-286.

Week 6: Difussion

Tuesday, May 7

  • DellaPosta, D., Shi, Y., & Macy, M. (2015). Why do liberals drink lattes?. American Journal of Sociology, 120(5), 1473-1511.

  • DellaPosta, D. (2020). Pluralistic collapse: The “oil spill” model of mass opinion polarization. American Sociological Review, 85(3), 507-536.

  • Goldberg, A., & Stein, S. K. (2018). Beyond Social Contagion: Associative Diffusion and The Emergence of Cultural Variation. American Sociological Review, 83(5), 897-932.

Thursday, May 9

  • Centola, D., & Macy, M. (2007). Complex Contagions and the Weakness of Long Ties. American Journal of Sociology, 113(3), 702-734.

  • Gondal, N. (2023). Diffusion of innovations through social networks: Determinants and implications. Sociology Compass, 17(5), e13084.

  • Bail, C. A., Brown, T. W., & Wimmer, A. (2019). Prestige, proximity, and prejudice: how Google search terms diffuse across the world. American Journal of Sociology, 124(5), 1496-1548.

Week 7: Culture

Tuesday, May 14

  • Lizardo, O. (2023). Culture and Networks. Pp. 188-201 in The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis. SAGE Publications Ltd.

  • Lewis, K., & Kaufman, J. (2018). The Conversion of Cultural Tastes Into Social Network Ties. American Journal of Sociology, 123(6), 1684-1742.

  • Rawlings, C. M., & Childress, C. (2023). The Polarization of Popular Culture: Tracing the Size, Shape, and Depth of the “Oil Spill”. Social Forces, soad150.

Thursday, May 16 (No Meeting)

Week 8: History

Tuesday, May 21 (Virtual Meeting)

  • 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.

  • Gould, R. V. (1991). Multiple Networks and Mobilization In The Paris Commune, 1871. American Sociological Review, 56(6), 716-729.

  • Bearman, P., Moody, J., & Faris, R. (2002). Networks and History. Complexity, 8(1), 61-71.

Thursday, May 23

  • Erikson, E., & Feltham E., (2021) Historical Network Research, Pp. 432–442 in R Light, and J Moody (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Social Networks. Oxford University Press.

  • 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.

  • 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.

Week 9: Inequality

Tuesday, May 28

  • DiMaggio, P., & Garip, F. (2012). Network effects and social inequality. Annual Review of Sociology, 38, 93-118.

  • Pedulla, D. S., & Pager, D. (2019). Race and networks in the job search process. American Sociological Review, 84(6), 983-1012.

Thursday, May 30

  • Erikson, E., & Occhiuto, N. (2017). Social networks and macrosocial change. Annual Review of Sociology, 43, 229-248.

  • Zhang, J., & Centola, D. (2019). Social networks and health: New developments in diffusion, online and offline. Annual Review of Sociology, 45, 91-109.

  • Hofstra, B., Corten, R., Van Tubergen, F., & Ellison, N. B. (2017). Sources of segregation in social networks: A novel approach using Facebook. American Sociological Review, 82(3), 625-656.

Week 10: Linking Micro and Macro

Tuesday, June 4

  • Mcfarland, D. A., Moody, J., Diehl, D., Smith, J. A., & Thomas, R. J. (2014). Network Ecology and Adolescent Social Structure. American Sociological Review, 79(6), 1088-1121.

  • Bearman, P. S., Moody, J., & Stovel, K. (2004). Chains of Affection: The Structure of Adolescent Romantic and Sexual Networks. American Journal of Sociology, 110(1), 44-91.

Thursday, June 6

  • Levy, B. L., Phillips, N. E., & Sampson, R. J. (2020). Triple Disadvantage: Neighborhood Networks of Everyday Urban Mobility and Violence In US Cities. American Sociological Review, 85(6), 925-956.

  • Papachristos, A. V., & Bastomski, S. (2018). Connected in crime: the enduring effect of neighborhood networks on the spatial patterning of violence. American Journal of Sociology, 124(2), 517-568.