Prof. Harrison C. White

HARRISON C. WHITE

Giddings Professor of Sociology
Columbia University, New York (USA)

Personal page: http://www.sociology.columbia.edu/fac-
bios/white/faculty.html


Publications (pdf)

Education: B.Sc. in Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ph.D in Theoretical Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ph.D in Sociology at Princeton University.

Research interests: Economic sociology; Mathematical sociology and mathematical modelling: combinatorial and algebraic models, stochastic system operation models, control (feedback) systems; Control processes through agency; Social network and discourse analyses; Sociolinguistics and discourse analysis; Social networks and entrepreneurial phenomena; Field studies and mathematical analyses of business firms and market operation; Sociology of art.

Present positions: Board of Advisory Editors, Poetics ● Memberships: National Academy of Sciences; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; American Association for Advancement of Science; Sociological Research Association; American Sociological Association.

Awards and acknowledgments: A book dedicated to Professor White's contributions in Sociology: General sociology of Harrison C. White: Chaos and order in networks, by Reza Azarian, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 (http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is=1403944342, also sample chapter) ● Merit Award, Eastern Sociological Society, 1998 ● Doctor of Humane Letters, University of Chicago, 1998 ● ASA Stouffer Award in Metodology, 1975 ● Guggenheim Fellow, 1973.

Web resources on Professor White: White's page at Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_White) ● The cultural turn at UC-SB: Instituting and Institutions, 4th annual interdisciplinary conference, 2003 (http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/ct/pages/CT4/Readings/White.html) ● Interview with Harrison White, A. MacLean and A. Olds, 2001 (http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/theory@madison/papers/ivwWhite.pdf) ● The basic framework in the general sociology of Harrison C. White, by Reza Azarian, Stockholm University, 2000 (http://www.mot.chalmers.se/dept/idy/home/azarian.pdf)



SOME PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE ON WEB

(2003) Harrison C. White, Businesses mobilize production through markets: Parametric modeling of path-dependent outcomes in network flows, Complexity, vol. 8, 1, pp. 87-95 ( http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/Complexity/WHITE-Mkt_net_firm_5-02.pdf)

(2001) Harrison C. White, Introduction, Ch. 1 of Markets from Networks, by H.C. White, Princeton University Press (http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s7207.pdf)

(1995)Harrison C. White, Network switchings and Bayesian forks: Reconstructing the social and behavioral sciences, Social Research, 62, vol. 62, pp. 1035-63 (http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/theory@madison/papers/white02.pdf)

Working papers and drafts:

(2005) Harrison C. White, Social construction of flows: Price profiles across producers gear to market context upstream, downstream and cross-stream, ISERP Working Paper No. 2005-01 ( http://www.iserp.columbia.edu/research/working_papers/downloads/2005_01.pdf)

(2005) Harrison C. White, Inventory of dynamics in art markets (http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/pdfs/White0205.pdf)

(2004) Harrison C. White, Production markets broker upstream to downstream, balancing their volume and quality sensitivities to firms through an oriented market profile of sign, ISERP Working Paper No. 2004-02 ( http://www.iserp.columbia.edu/research/working_papers/downloads/2004_02.pdf)

(2003) Harrison C. White, Innovation in style, revised and shortened version of Chapter 4, in Michael Hechter, Lynn Nadel, and Richard E. Michod (eds.), The Origin of Values, New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1993 ( http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/ct4/pages/Readings/White/UC-SB%20Styles%20Innov%2003.doc)

(2002) Harrison C. White, Substitutability cross-stream between oriented markets: Conventions in the wine sector of France, ISERP Working Paper No. 2002-02 ( http://www.iserp.columbia.edu/research/working_papers/downloads/2002_02.pdf)

Updated: January 26, 2007

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