Course Outline 2007

N.B. I consider this outline a work-in-progress. I will revisit it regularly and modify as necessary to take into consideration the substantive interests of members of the seminar.

Week 1 (Jan 8)

Introduction and Course Overview, Basic Concepts

Bott, Elizabeth. 1957. “Urban Families: Conjugal roles and social networks.” Human Relations 8: 345-83.

Simmel, Georg. 1955. “The Web of Group-Affiliations.” Pp. 125-195 in Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations. New York, the Free Press.

Granovetter, Mark S. 1985. "Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness." AJS 91:481-510.

Barry Wellman, "Structural analysis: from method and metaphor to theory and substance," pp. 19-61in Wellman, Barry and S. D. Berkowitz, eds. 1988. Social Structures: A Network Approach. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Week 2 Martin Luther King Day (Jan 15)

No Class

Week 3 (Jan 22)

Clumping in Networks: balance, density, clustering, homophily

Overview:

Wasserman and Faust. 1994. “Structural Balance and transitivity.” Chapter 6 in Wasserman and Faust, Social Network Analysis. Cambridge University Press.

Miller McPherson, Lynn Smith-Lovin, and James M Cook. 2001. “BIRDS OF A FEATHER: Homophily in Social Networks.” Annual Review of Sociology. 27:415-444.

History:

Simmel, Georg. 1950. “The Triad.” Pp. 118-169 in the Sociology of Georg Simmel. New York: Free Press.

Davis, James. 1963. “Structural balance, mechanical solidarity, and interpersonal relations.” AJS. 68:444-462.

Fritz Heider. 1946. “Attitudes and Cognitive Organization,” Psychological Review 52:358-374

Dorwin Cartwright and Frank Harary. 1956. “Structural Balance,” Psychological Review 63:277-293

Paul Holland and Samuel Leinhardt. 1970. "A Method for Detecting Structure in Sociometric Data" American Journal of Sociology 70: 492-513.

Applications:

D. Baldassarri, M. Diani "The Integrative Power of Civic Network," R&R at American Journal of Sociology

Week 4 (Jan 29)

Small worlds and the implications of a little randomness

Granovetter, Mark. 1973. “The Strength of Weak Ties.” AJS.

Burt, Ron. 1980. Structural holes or selections from his new book on brokers

Watts, Duncan. 1999. Networks, Dynamics, and the Small World Phenomenon. AJS 105: 493-527

Travers, Jeffrey and Stanley Milgram. 1969. “An Experimental Study of the Small World Problem.” Sociometry. 32:425-443.

Silver, Alan. 1990. “Friendship in commercial society: eighteenth-century social theory and modern sociology.” AJS.

supplemental:

de Sola Pool, Ithiel and Manfred Kochen. 1978. “Contacts and Influence.” Social Networks. 1: 5-49.

Rapoport, A. and W. J. Horvath. 1961. “A study of a large sociogram.” Behavioral Science. 6:279-291.

Killworth, Peter and H.R. Bernard. 1978. “The reverse small world problem.” Social Networks. 1: 159-92.

Week 5 (Feb 5)

Inequality in Networks: power, asymmetry, hierarchy, preferential attachment

Scott Feld. 1991. "Why Your Friends Have More Friends Than You Do." American Journal of Sociology 96:1464-77.

Barabasi, Albert and Reka Albert. 1999. Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks. Science. 286: 5909-512.

Cook, Emerson, and Yamagishi, "The Distribution of Power in Exchange Networks: Theory and Experimental Results." American Journal of Sociology 89(1983):275-305.

Roger Gould, 2002. “The Evolution of Status Hierarchies.” American Journal of Sociology 107: 1143-1178.

Chase, Ivan. 1980. “Social Process and hierarchy formation in small groups: A comparative perspective.” American Sociological Review. 45:905-924.

Supplemental:

Bonacich, Philip. 1987. “Power and centrality: A family of measures.” AJS. 92:1170-1182.

Wasserman and Faust. 1994. “Centrality and Prestige.” Chapter 5 in Wasserman and Faust, Social Network Analysis. Cambridge University Press.

Freeman, Linton. 1979. “Centrality in Social networks: conceptual clarification.” Social Networks. 1:215-240.

Week 6 (Feb 12)

Roles, Categories, and Positions (equivalence)

S. F. Nadel, Social Structure, “The Coherence of Role Systems” and “Degrees of Abstraction.” Chapters IV and V in The Theory of Social Structure. London: Cohen and West.

White, Harrison, Scott Boorman, and Ron Breiger. 1976. “Social Structure from multiple networks. I. Blockmodels of roles and positions.” AJS. 81:730-779.

Wasserman and Faust. 1994. “Structural Equivalence,” “Blockmodels,” and “Network Positions and Roles.” Chapters 9, 10, and 11 in Wasserman and Faust, Social Network Analysis. Cambridge University Press.

Padgett, John and Chris Ansell. 1993. “Robust Action and the rise of the Medici, 1400-1434.” AJS. 98:1259-1319

Baker, Wayne and Robert Faulkner. 1991. “Role as Resource in the Hollywood Film Industry.” AJS. 97:279-309.

Rytina, Steve and David Morgan. 1982. “The arithmetic of social relations: The interplay of category and network.” AJS 88:88-113.

Lazega, E., & van Duijn, M.A.J. (1997). “Position in formal structure, personal characteristics and choices of advisors in a law firm: a logistic regression model for dyadic network data.” Social Networks 19: 375-397.

supplemental:

Breiger, Ron. 1974. “The duality of persons and groups.” Social Forces. 53:181-190.

Week 7 Holiday: Class to be rescheduled (Feb 19)

Why networks matter: social capital, regulation, monitoring, and mobilization

James Coleman. 1988. “Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital.” American Journal of Sociology 94:S95-S120.*

Bearman, Peter, James Moody, and Katherine Stovel. 2004. “Chains of Affection: The Structure of Adolescent Romantic and Sexual Networks.” American Journal of Sociology. 110(1)44-99.

Kollock, Peter. 1994. “The Emergence of Exchange Structures: An experimental study of uncertainty, commitment, and trust.” AJS 100: 313-345.

McAdam, Doug and Ronnelle Paulsen. 1993. “Specifying the Relationship Between Social Ties and Activism.” AJS 99:640-667.

Gould, Roger. 1993. “Trade Cohesion, Class Unity, and urban Insurrection: Artisinal activism in the Paris Commune.” AJS. 98:735-

Week 8 (Feb 27)

Why networks matters: Search and diffusion

Podolny, Joel and James Baron. 1997. “Resources and Relationships: Social Networks and Mobility in the Workplace.” American Sociological Review. 62:673-693.

Granovetter, Mark. Getting a Job (selections).

Klovdahl, Alden. 1985. “Social networks and the spread of infectious disease: the AIDS example.” Social Science Medicine. 21:1203-16.

Stovel and Fountain. manuscript. Hearing About A Job.

Wayne Baker and Robert Faulkner. 1993. “The Social Organization of Conspiracy,” American Sociological Review 58:837-860.

Burt, Ronald. 2004. “Where good ideas come from.” AJS

Week 9 (Mar 5)

Why networks matter: economics and organizations

Ronald Burt, Structural Holes, Intro, Chapter 1.

Joel Podolny, Toby E. Stuart, and Michael T. Hannan. 1996. "Networks, Knowledge, and Niches: Competition in the Worldwide Semiconductor Industry, 1984-1991," American Journal of Sociology 102: 659-89.

Lincoln, James R. and Jon Miller. 1979. “Work and Friendship Ties in Organizations.” Administrative Science Quarterly 24: 181-199

Ezra Zuckerman and Stoyan Sgourev, “Peer Capitalism.”

Palmer, D., R. Friedland, & J.V. Singh. 1986. The Ties that Bind: Organizational and Class Bases of Stability in a Corporate Interlock Network. American Sociological Review 51: 781-196.

Fernandez, Roberto, Emilio Castilla, and Paul Moore. 2000. “Social Capital at Work: Networks and Employment at a Phone Center.” AJS 105: 1288-1356.

supplemental:

Baker, Wayne. 1984. “The Social Structure of a National Securities Market.” AJS. 89:775-811.

Podolny, Joel M., Toby E. Stuart, and Michael T. Hannan. 1996. "Networks, Knowledge and Niches: Competition in the Worldwide Semiconductor Industry, 1984-1991." AJS 102:659-89.

White, Harrison. 1981. “Where do markets come from?” AJS. 87: 517-47.

Podolny, Joel, and Karen L. Page. 1998. “Network Forms of Organization.” Annual Review of Sociology. 1998, 24, 57-76.

Podolny, Joel and James Baron. 1997. “Resources and Relationships: Social Networks and Mobility in the Workplace.” American Sociological Review. 62:673-693.