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RONALD L. BREIGER Professor
of Sociology Personal page: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~breiger/
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Education: A.B. Brandeis; PhD at Harvard University.
Research interests: Sociological theory; Quantitative methodology; Objects and methods of cultural analysis; Social networks and research methods in social network analysis; Stratification and mobility; Sociology of rights, justice, and law.
Present positions: Board of Advisory Editors, Poetics.
Awards and acknowledgments: 2005 George Simmel Award, International Network for Social Network Analysis (list of Keynote speakers and Simmel award holders from 1981 to 2006 at: http://www.insna.org/INSNA/keynotes_inf.html)
SOME PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE ON WEB
(*all available at Professor Breiger's web page: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~breiger/ )
(2005) R.L. Breiger, Ethical dilemmas in social network research: Introduction to special issue. Social Networks 27/2: 89 - 93 (http://www.u.arizona.edu/~breiger/2005BreigerIntroEthics.pdf)
(2004) John Sonnett and Ronald Breiger, How relational methods matter. Culture 19/1: 1, 8-10 (preprint: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~breiger/SonnettBreiger.htm)
(2002) Philippa E. Pattison and R.L. Breiger, Lattices and dimensional representations: Matrix decompositions and ordering structures. Social Networks 24: 423-444 (http://www.u.arizona.edu/~breiger/PEPRLBSN02.pdf)
(2002) R.L. Breiger, Poststructuralism in organizational studies. In Michael Lounsbury and Marc J. Ventresca, eds., Social Structure and Organizations Revisited. Research in the Sociology of Organizations (JAI Press / Elsevier Science), vol. 19, 295-305 (http://www.u.arizona.edu/~breiger/RSOproof.pdf)
(2002) R.L. Breiger, Writing (and quantifying) sociology. In Jonathan Monroe, ed., Writing and Revising the Disciplines. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, pp. 90-112 (preprint: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~breiger/Writing.pdf)
(2000) David Stark, Szabolcs Kemeny, and R.L. Breiger, Postsocialist portfolios: Network strategies in the shadow of the state." Hungarian Journal Közgazdasági Szemle, 47: 393-405 (Part I) and 47: 430-445 (Part II) (manuscript: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~breiger/Portfolios.pdf)
(1999) Shin-Kap Han and R.L. Breiger, Dimensions of corporate social capital: Toward models and measures. Pp. 118-133 in Roger Th.A.J. Leenders and Shaul M. Gabbay, eds., Corporate Social Capital and Liability. Boston, Kluwer (http://www.u.arizona.edu/~breiger/Hanbreig.pdf)
(1998) R.L. Breiger and John M. Roberts, Jr., Solidarity and social networks. Pp. 239-262 in Patrick Doreian and Thomas Fararo, eds., The Problem of Solidarity: Theory and Models. Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach (http://www.u.arizona.edu/~breiger/breigrobpdf.pdf)
Working papers and drafts:
(2005) R.L. Breiger, Culture and classification in markets: An introduction (draft: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~breiger/Poetics33-4Intro.pdf)
(2004) R.L. Breiger, The analysis of social networks, in M. Hardy and A. Bryman (eds.), Handbook of Data Analysis,. Pp. 505-526, Sage Publications (excerpts from draft: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~breiger/NetworkAnalysis.pdf)
Updated: January 22, 2007