Publications

Books

Selected Articles

Action and Practice Theory

  • “Hysteresis in recent sociological research” Working Paper. (pdf)

  • “Wanting, Liking, and the sociology of motivation.” Sociological Forum. doi:10.1111/socf.12996

  • “A motivational theory of roles, rewards, and institutions.’’ Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 53: 200-220. doi:10.1111/jtsb.12360

  • “Habit and the explanation of action.” Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 51: 391-411. doi:10.1111/jtsb.12273

  • “The hysteresis effect: Theorizing mismatch in action.” Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 47: 164–194. doi:10.1111/jtsb.12117

  • “Beyond world images: Belief as embodied action in the world.” Sociological Theory 33:44-70. doi:10.1177/0735275115572397

  • “Is a ‘Special Psychology’ of practice possible? From values and attitudes to embodied dispositions.” Theory & Psychology 19: 1-15. doi:10.1177/0959354309345891

  • “‘Mirror neurons,’ collective objects and the problem of transmission: reconsidering Stephen Turner’s critique of practice theory.” Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 34: 375-401. doi:10.1111/j.1468-5914.2007.00340.x

  • “The cognitive origins of Bourdieu’s ‘habitus’.” Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 34: 375-401. doi:10.1111/j.1468-5914.2004.00255.x

Classical Sociological Theory

  • “Human totality and the Total Social Fact.” (pdf)

  • “Chance, orientation, and interpretation: Max Weber’s probabilism and the future of social theory.” Sociological Theory 40:124-150. doi:10.1177/07352751221084712

  • “Max Weber’s ideal versus material interest distinction revisited.” European Journal of Social Theory 21: 3–21. doi:10.1177/1368431017710906

  • Schmaus’ functionalist approach to the explanation of social facts: An assessment and critique.’’ Philosophy of the Social Sciences 43: 453-492. doi:10.1177/0048393112458491

  • “Taking representational dualism seriously: Revisiting the Durkheim-Spencer debate on the rise of individualism.” Sociological Perspectives 52: 533-555. doi:10.1525/sop.2009.52.4.533

Computational Social Science

  • “Predicting relationship labels and individual personality traits from telecommunication history in social networks using Hawkes processes.” IEEE Access 11: 8492-8503. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3238970

  • “Modeling memory imprints induced by interactions in social networks.” Pp. 186-195 in R. Thomson, C. Dancy and A. Pyke (Eds.), Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling SBP-BRiMS 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13558. Springer, Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-17114-7_18

  • “Examining the association between behavioral trajectory similarity clusters in social networks.” Pp. 36-55 in G. Giordano, M. L. Restaino and A. Salvini (Eds.) Methods and Applications in Social Networks Analysis: Evidence from Collaborative, Governance, Historical and Mobility Networks. FrancoAngeli ONIX_20220303_9788835124603_9

  • “Predicting homophily and social network connectivity from dyadic behavioral similarity trajectory clusters.” Social Science Computer Review 40:195-211. doi:10.1177/0894439320923123

  • “Creation, evolution, and dissolution of social groups.” Scientific Reports 11: 17470. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-96805-7

  • “Social networks through the prism of cognition.” Complexity. doi:10.1155/2021/4963903

  • “Analysis of link formation, persistence, and dissolution in NetSense data.” Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining: 1197-1204. doi:10.1109/ASONAM.2016.7752391

  • “Influence of personal preferences on link dynamics in social networks.” Complexity doi:10.1155/2017/4543563

Cognitive Social Science

  • The Raw and the (Over)Cooked: States are physical qualities.’’ Metaphor and the Social World 14: 22-42. doi:10.1075/msw.00039.ash

  • “Culture, cognition, and internalization.” Sociological Forum 36: 1177-1206. doi:10.1111/socf.12771

  • “What can cognitive neuroscience do for cultural sociology?” American Journal of Cultural Sociology 8: 3-28. doi:10.1057/s41290-019-00077-8

  • “What are dual process models? Implications for cultural analysis in sociology.” Sociological Theory 34: 287-310. doi:10.1177/0735275116675900

  • “The conceptual bases of metaphors of dirt and cleanliness in moral and non-moral reasoning.” Cognitive Linguistics 23-2: 367-394. doi:10.1515/cog-2012-0011

  • Skills, toolkits, contexts and institutions: clarifying the relationship between different approaches to cognition in cultural sociology.” Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts 38: 204-227. doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2009.11.003

Contemporary Sociological Theory

  • “For a probabilistic sociology: A history of concept formation with Pierre Bourdieu.” Theory and Society 51: 399–434. doi:10.1007/s11186-021-09452-2

  • “The cognitive-historical origins of conceptual ambiguity in social theory.” Pp. 607-630 in S. Abrutyn and O. Lizardo (Eds.) Handbook of Classical Sociological Theory. New York: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-78205-4_28

  • “Deliberate trust and intuitive faith: A dual-process model of reliance.” Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 48: 230-250. doi:10.1111/jtsb.12160

  • “Reconceptualizing abstract conceptualization in social theory: The case of the ‘structure’ concept.” Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 43: 155-180. doi:10.1111/jtsb.12011

  • “Beyond the antinomies of structure: Levi-Strauss, Giddens, Bourdieu and Sewell.” Theory and Society 39: 651-688. doi:10.1007/s11186-010-9125-1

  • “Formalism, behavioral realism and the interdisciplinary challenge in sociological theory.” Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. 39: 39-79. doi:10.1111/j.1468-5914.2008.00393.x

Consumers and Consumption

  • Bourdieu, distinction, and aesthetic consumption.” In Frederick F. Wherry and Ian Woodward (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Consumption. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190273385.013.4

  • “Understanding the flow of symbolic goods in the global cultural economy.” International Journal of Contemporary Sociology 45: 13-34. (pdf)

  • “The question of culture consumption and stratification revisited.” Sociologica: Italian Online Sociological Review 2/2008. doi:10.2383/27709

  • “The puzzle of women’s ‘highbrow’ culture consumption: Integrating gender and work into Bourdieu’s class theory of taste.” Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts 34: 1-23. doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2005.09.0011

Cultural Change

  • “Visualizing the decline in cultural participation in Europe post-crisis.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. doi:10.1177/23780231231184968

  • “Cultural fragmentation or acquired dispositions? A new approach to accounting for patterns of cultural change.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 2. doi:10.1177/2378023116669726

  • “How macro-historical change shapes cultural taste: Legacies of democratization in Spain and Portugal.” American Sociological Review 78: 213-223. doi:10.1177/0003122413478816

Cultural Theory

  • “Kinding culture” Working Paper (pdf)

  • “Culture and social psychology.” Forthcoming in L. Doan, K. A. Hegtvedt and J. E. Stets (Eds.), The Handbook of Social Psychology: Micro, Meso, and Macro Orientations. Springer. (pdf)

  • “An analytical approach to culture.” Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 53: 281–302. doi:10.1177/00483931231169313

  • “What is implicit culture?” Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 52: 412-437. doi:10.1111/jtsb.12333

  • “Culture, cognition, and internalization.” Sociological Forum 36: 1177-1206. doi:10.1111/socf.12771

  • “Improving cultural analysis: Considering personal culture in its declarative and nondeclarative modes.” American Sociological Review 82: 88-115. doi:10.1177/0003122416675175

  • “Cultural symbols and cultural power.” Qualitative Sociology 39: 199-204. doi:10.1007/s11133-016-9329-4

  • “Cultural theory.” Pp. 99-120 in Seth Abrutyn (Ed.), Handbook of Contemporary Sociological Theory. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-32250-6_6

  • “Embodied culture as procedure: Cognitive science and the link between subjective and objective culture.” Pp. 70-86 in A. Warde and D. Southerton (Eds.), The Habits of Consumption: COLLeGIUM: Studies Across Disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Volume 12. Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies. H918

  • “Pierre Bourdieu as a post-cultural theorist.” Cultural Sociology 5: 1-22.doi:10.1177/1749975510389714

Culture and Networks

  • “Culture and everyday networks” Pp. 53-65 in N. Crossley and P. Widdop (Eds.) The Handbook of Culture and Social Networks. Edward Elgar. doi:10.4337/9781803928784.00010

  • “Culture and social capital.” Pp. 140–156 in R. Côté, S. McDonald and J. Shen (Eds.) The Handbook of Inequality and Social Capital. Edward Elgar. doi:10.4337/9781802202373.00018

  • “Culture and networks.” Pp. 188-201 in J. McLevey, J. Scott, and P. J. Carrington (Eds.) The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis. Sage Publications. doi:10.4135/9781529682618

  • “Variety in cultural choice and the activation of social ties.” Social Science Research 42: 321–330. doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.09.014

  • “Cultural correlates of ego-network closure.” Sociological Perspectives 54: 479-487. doi:10.1525/sop.2011.54.3.479

  • “Can cultural worldviews influence network composition?” Social Forces 88: 1595-1618. doi:10.1353/sof.2010.0009

  • “How cultural tastes shape personal networks.” American Sociological Review 71: 778-807. doi:10.1177/000312240607100504

Institutions and Organization

  • “Functionaries: A distributional approach to institutional analysis.” (pdf)

  • “The Cultural environment for innovation and entrepreneurship.” In O. Sorenson and P. Thornton (Eds.), Handbook of Sociology of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783111085722-026

  • “Organizations and the structure of culture.” Sociology Compass 17: e13063. doi:10.1111/soc4.13063

  • “Specifying the ‘what’ and separating the ‘how’: Doings, sayings, codes, and artifacts as the building blocks of institutions.” Research in the Sociology of Organizations 65(A): 217-234. doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X2019000065A021

  • “An institutional logics approach to the analysis of social movement fields.” Social Currents 2: 58-80. doi:10.1017/nws.2014.7

  • “How organizational theory can help network theorizing: Linking structure and dynamics via cross-level analogies.” Research in the Sociology of Organizations 40: 33-56. doi:10.1108/S0733-558X(2014)0000040002

  • “Defining and theorizing terrorism: A global actor-centered approach.” Journal of World Systems Research 14: 91-118.doi:10.5195/jwsr.2008.341

  • “Can cultural capital theory be reconsidered in the light of world polity institutionalism? Evidence from Spain.” Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts 33: 81-110. doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2005.02.001

  • “The comparative analysis of organizational forms: Integrating field and ecological approaches.” Research in the Sociology of Organizations 26: 117-151. doi:10.1108/S0733-558X(2009)0000026007

Measuring Culture

  • “From macrogenres to microgenres via relationality.” Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts 102: 101868. doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101868

  • “Simmel’s dialectic of form and content in recent work in cultural sociology.” The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory 94:93-100. doi:10.1080/00168890.2019.1585664

  • “Institutional movement logics and the changing shape of the U.S. social movement field, 1960–1995.” Social Forces 97: 1389–1422. doi:10.1093/sf/soy122

  • “Visualizing bring-backs.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 4. doi:10.1177/2378023118805362

  • “The mutual specification of genres and audiences: Reflective two-mode centralities in person-to-culture choice data.” Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts 68: 52-71. doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2018.04.003

  • “Omnivorousness as the bridging of cultural holes: A measurement strategy.” Theory and Society 43: 395-419. doi:10.1007/s11186-014-9220-9

Social Network Analysis

Sociology of Taste

  • “The end of symbolic exclusion? The rise of ‘categorical tolerance’ in the musical tastes of Americans: 1993 - 2012.” Sociological Science 3: 85-108. doi:10.15195/v3.a5

  • “Why ‘cultural matters’ matter: Culture talk as the mobilization of cultural capital in interaction.” Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts 58: 1-17. doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2016.09.002

  • “Cultural objects as prisms: Perceived audience composition of musical genres as a resource for symbolic exclusion.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 2. doi:10.1177/2378023116641695

  • “Musical taste and patterns of symbolic exclusion in the United States 1993–2012: Generational dynamics of differentiation and continuity.” Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2015.08.003

  • “Taste and the logic of practice in Distinction.” Czech Sociological Review 50: 335-364. doi:10.13060/00380288.2014.50.3.105

  • “Reconceptualizing and theorizing ‘omnivorousness’: Genetic and relational mechanisms.’’ Sociological Theory 30: 260-280. doi:10.1177/0735275112466999

  • “Highbrow omnivorousness on the small screen? Cultural industry systems and patterns of cultural choice in Europe.” Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts 37: 1-23. doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2008.10.001