Ronald Breiger

Ronald Breiger
Born Englewood, New Jersey
Fields Sociology
Institutions University of Arizona
Alma mater Brandeis University (B.A.)
Harvard University (Ph.D.)
Doctoral advisor Harrison White
Other academic advisors Mark Granovetter, Thomas F. Pettigrew
Doctoral students Omar Lizardo
Known for cultural sociology, organizational sociology, social network analysis, mathematical models
Notable awards Georg Simmel Distinguished Career Award

Ronald Breiger is an American sociologist and full professor of sociology and (by courtesy) government and public policy, and an affiliate of the interdisciplinary graduate program in statistics, at the University of Arizona. Prior to coming to Arizona he served on the faculties of Harvard University (assistant to associate professor) and Cornell University (professor to Goldwin Smith Professor of Sociology). He is well cited[1] in the fields of social networks, stratification, mathematical models, organizational sociology and cultural sociology and was editor of the influential academic journal Social Networks[2] from 1998 to 2006. In 2005 he was the recipient of the Georg Simmel Distinguished Career Award of the International Network for Social Network Analysis.[3]

Early life and career

Ronald Breiger grew up in Englewood, New Jersey.[4] He received his AB Summa cum Laude at Brandeis University in 1970 with a thesis entitled: Value Conceptions in Early American Sociology. In 1975 he received a PhD from Harvard University. His dissertation was on "Dual and Multiple Networks of Social Structure". His committee consisted of Harrison White(chair),[4] Mark Granovetter and Thomas F. Pettigrew.[5]

In 1985-86, he was a fellow of the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences[6] and he was named a Fulbright Senior Scholar for 1987-88. He is also a national affiliate of the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality.[7]

Major contributions

Breiger's primary contributions have been to the field of social network analysis. The most widely cited are, with co-authors Harrison White and Scott A. Boorman, "Social Structure from Multiple Networks. I. Blockmodels of Roles and Positions" published in 1976.[8] and "The duality of persons and groups" published in 1974.[9]

Beginning in 2000, Breiger devoted considerable attention to elucidating the mutual implications of social network analysis and the sociology of culture.[10][11][12] In recent years, he and colleagues have turned regression analysis and many of its generalizations "inside out" by showing how regression modeling rests on a dual network of profile similarity among the cases.[13][14]

Breiger has played in important role in applying network analytic techniques to the study of terrorism. For instance, in the summer of 2002, Breiger chaired a workshop on dynamic social network and analysis for the Office of Naval Research asked the Committee on Human Factors National Academy of Sciences.[4][15][16] He is also a Research Affiliate with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism,[17] one of the Department of Homeland Security Centers of Excellence.

In 2005 he received the Georg Simmel Distinguished Career Award from the International Network for Social Network Analysis(INSNA), the award is given annually to the keynote speaker at the Sunbelt Social Networks Conference, the annual conference of the INSNA.[3] In 2009-10 he served as elected chair of the Section on Mathematical Sociology[18] of the American Sociological Association.

References

  1. ↑ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yAyrk0cAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
  2. ↑ http://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/dis/infoserv/journal/detail/1401
  3. 1 2 http://www.insna.org/award_simmel.html
  4. 1 2 3 "National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism".
  5. ↑ "CV" (PDF).
  6. ↑ "CASBS".
  7. ↑ "Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality".
  8. ↑ White, Harrison C., Scott A. Boorman, and Ronald L. Breiger. "Social structure from multiple networks. I. Blockmodels of roles and positions." American journal of sociology (1976): 730-780.
  9. ↑ Breiger, Ronald L. "The duality of persons and groups." Social forces 53.2 (1974): 181-190.
  10. ↑ "Breiger, Ronald L. A tool kit for practice theory.".Poetics 27.2 (2000): 91-115.
  11. ↑ "Pachucki, Mark A., and Ronald L. Breiger. Cultural holes: Beyond relationality in social networks and culture.". Annual Review of Sociology 36 (2010): 205-224.
  12. ↑ "Breiger, Ronald L., and Kyle Puetz. Culture and networks." (PDF). International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd. ed. (2015), ed. James D. Wright, in press.
  13. ↑ "Melamed, David, Ronald Breiger, and Eric Schoon. The duality of clusters and statistical interactions.". Sociological methods & research 42.1 (2013): 41-59.
  14. ↑ "Breiger, Ronald L., and David Melamed. The duality of organizations and their attributes: Turning regression modeling 'inside out'.". Research in the sociology of organizations 40 (2014): 261-74.
  15. ↑ "Dynamic Social Network Modeling and Analysis, edd. R. Breiger, K. Carley, P. Pattison.". Washington, DC, National Academies Press (2003).
  16. ↑ "Breiger, RL, Eric Schoon, David Melamed, Victor Asal, and R. Karl Rethemeyer, Comparative configurational analysis as a two-mode network problem: A study of terrorist group engagement in the drug trade.". Social Networks 36.1 (2014): 23-39.
  17. ↑ http://www.start.umd.edu/people/ronald-breiger
  18. ↑ http://www.asanet.org/sections/mathematical.cfm
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