Publications

Books

• Handbook of Classical Sociological Theory. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78205-4

• Measuring Culture. Columbia University Press. https://doi.org/10.7312/mohr18028

• Ritual, Emotion, Violence: Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429464157

Selected Articles

Action and Practice Theory

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

• “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

• “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. https://doi.org/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. https://doi.org/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 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/53211

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

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

• “Social networks through the prism of cognition.” Complexity. https://doi.org/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. https://doi.org/10.1109/ASONAM.2016.7752391

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

Cognitive Social Science

• The Raw and the (Over)Cooked: States are physical qualities.’’ Metaphor and the Social World. https://doi.org/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. 10.1177/0735275116675900

• “The conceptual bases of metaphors of dirt and cleanliness in moral and non-moral reasoning.” Cognitive Linguistics 23-2: 367-394. oi: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

• “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)

• “The shallowness of deep culture or the deepness of shallow culture? Six ways culture can be internalized” Working Paper (pdf)

• “An analytical approach to culture.” Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 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. https://doi.org/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. http://hdl.handle.net/10138/34223

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

Culture and Networks

• “Culture and social capital.” Forthcoming in R. Côté, S. McDonald and J. Shen (Eds.) The Handbook of Inequality and Social Capital. Edward Elgar. (pdf)

• “Culture and networks.” Forthcoming in P. Carrington, J. McLevey and J. Scott (Eds.) The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis. Sage Publications. (pdf)

• “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. https://doi.org/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

• “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 (pdf)

• “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

• “Incubators or diffusers? Examining the dynamic coupling of context and social ties across multiple foci.” Social Networks doi:10.1016/j.socnet.2022.02.004

• “Theorizing the concept of social tie using frames.” Social Networks 78: 138-149. doi:10.1016/j.socnet.2024.01.001

• “Two-mode relational similarities.” Social Networks 76: 34-41. doi:10.1016/j.socnet.2023.06.002

• “Using big data to examine the effect of urbanism on social networks.” Journal of Urban Affairs 43:40-56. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2018.1550350

• “Neither influence nor selection: Examining the co-evolution of political orientation and social networks in the NetSense and NetHealth studies.” PloS one 15: e0233458. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233458

• “A dyadic reciprocity index for repeated interaction networks.” Network Science 1: 31-48. https://doi.org/10.1017/nws.2012.5

• “Predictors of short-term decay of cell phone contacts in a large scale communication network.” Social Networks 33: 245-257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2011.07.002

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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2008.10.001