Ronald Breiger
Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Harvard (1975)
Ph.D., Harvard (1975)
Research Interests
Ronald Breiger works in the areas of social networks, stratification, math models, theory, and measurement issues in cultural and institutional analysis. He is fascinated by the prospects for encouraging closer intellectual relations between the sociology of culture, cultural studies, social network analysis, and formal models of classification and social meaning. Please see my web page for up-to-date information.
Representative Publications
- Ray-May Hsung, Nan Lin, and Ronald L. Breiger (eds.), Contexts of Social Capital: Social Networks in Communities, Markets, and Organizations. New York: Routledge, in press.
- Ronald Breiger, Kathleen Carley, and Philippa Pattison (eds.), Dynamic Social Network Modeling and Analysis: Workshop Summary and Papers. National Academy of Sciences / National Research Council. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2003.
- R.L. Breiger, "A Tool Kit for Practice Theory." Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts 27 (2000): 91-115.
- R.L. Breiger (traducción: Narciso Pizarro), "Control social y redes sociales: Un modelo a partir de Georg Simmel." Política y Sociedad 33 (2000): 57 – 72.