Eric Schoon, David Melamed, and Ronald Breiger, with Eunsung Yoon. Regression Inside Out. Cambridge University Press, in press for 2024. Link

Robin Wagner-Pacifici and Ronald Breiger. “Templates of Eventful Action in Social Networks.” In press in Nick Crossley and Paul Widdop (eds.), Handbook of Social Networks and Culture (2023). Edward Elgar Publishing (in press).

Ronald Breiger and Robin Wagner-Pacifici. “Social Networks and Social Categories.” In press in John McLevey, John Scott, and Peter J. Carrington (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis, 2^nd ed. (2023), Ch. 3 (in press). Link

John M. Roberts, Jr., Emily Dorshorst, Yi Yin, Matthew A. Peeples, Ronald L. Breiger, and Barbara J. Mills. “Sampling variability and centrality score comparisons in archaeological network analysis: A case study of the San Pedro Valley, Arizona.” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (2023) 51: 104100. Click to read.

Ronald L. Breiger. “A concluding comment: Toward a Critical Social Network Analysis.” Social Networks 67: 74-75 (2021). Click to read.

Mark C. Pachucki and Ronald L. Breiger. “Network Theories.” In Peter Kivisto (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory, vol. 2: Contemporary Theories and Issues (2021), Ch. 2, pp. 24-42. Read the abstract.

Nikita Basov, Ronald Breiger, Iina Hellsten, John Mohr, and Johanne Saint-Charles (editors). Special issue of a journal – Discourse, Meaning, and Networks: Advances in Socio-Semantic Analysis. Poetics 78(1): 1-167 (2020). Click to read.

Nikita Basov, Ronald Breiger, and Iina Hellsten. “Socio-Semantic and Other Dualities.” Poetics 78(1): 1-12 (2020). Click to read.

Matthew F. Dabkowski, Neng Fan, and Ronald L. Breiger. “Finding Globally Optimal Macrostructure in Multiple Relation, Mixed-mode Social Networks.” Methodological Innovations 13(3): 1-17 (2020). Click to read.

Simone Rambotti and Ronald L. Breiger. “Extreme and Inconsistent: A Case-Oriented Regression Analysis of Health, Inequality, an Poverty.” Socius 6: 1-13 (2020). Click to read.

• Simone Rambotti, “R Tutorial on decomposing regression coefficients into case-specific contributions.”

Sophie Mützel and Ronald Breiger. “Duality Beyond Persons and Groups.” In Ryan Light and James Moody (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Social Networks (2020), Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 392-413. Read the abstract.

Eric Bjorklund and Ronald L. Breiger. “Social Stratification and Economy: Class, Power and Status Factors in Economic Actions and Processes.” In Milan Zafirovski (ed.), A Modern Guide to Economic Sociology (2020), Edward Elgar Publishing, Chattenham, UK, pp. 90-107. Read the abstract.

Eric W. Schoon, David Melamed, Ronald L. Breiger, Eunsung Yoon, and Christopher Kleps. “Precluding Rare Outcomes by Predicting their Absence.” PloS ONE 14(10), (2019): e0223239. Click to read.

Nirnimesh Ghose, Loukas Lazos, Jerzy Rozenblit, and Ronald L. Breiger (2019, May). Multimodal Graph Analysis of Cyber Attacks. In Society for Modeling & Simulation International (SpringSim 2019), Proceedings of the Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS ’19), 1-12. Click to read.

Ronald L. Breiger and Julia Grace Smith. “Insurgencies as Netorks of Event Orderings.” Sociological Theory 36(2): 201-209 (2018). Click to read.

Ronald L. Breiger, Robin Wagner-Pacifici, and John W. Mohr. “Capturing Distinctions while Mining Text Data: Toward Low-Tech Formalization.” Poetics 68 (2018): 104-119. Click to read.

Meltem Odabaş, Thomas J. Holt, and R.L. Breiger. “Governance in Online Stolen Data Markets.” In Jens Beckert and Matias Dewey (eds.), The Architecture of Illegal Markets: Toward an Economic Sociology of Illegality in the Economy. New York: Oxford University Press (2017). More information.

• Book review by Michel Anteby in Administrative Science Quarterly, 2018. Click to read.

Meltem Odabaş, Thomas J. Holt and Ronald L. Breiger. “Markets as Governance Environments for Organizations at the Edge of Illegality: Insights from Social Network Analysis.” American Behavioral Scientist 61: 1267-1288 (2017). Click to read.

Matthew Dabkowski, Neng Fan, and R.L. Breiger, “Exploratory Block- modeling for One-Mode, Unsigned, Deterministic Networks using Integer Programming and Structural Equivalence.” Social Networks 47 (2016): 93-106. Click to read.

Qingpeng Zhang, Daniel Dajun Zeng, Fei-Yue Wang, R.L. Breiger, and James A Hendler, “Brokers or Bridges? Exploring Structural Holes in a Crowdsourcing System.” IEEE Computer 49 (June 2016): 56-64. Click to read.

Ronald Breiger, Lauren Pinson, and Gary Ackerman, “From Factors to Actors: Enhancing the Reliability of CBRN Analysis.” CBRNe World magazine (April 2016): 30-37. Click to read.

John W. Mohr, Ronald L. Breiger, and Robin Wagner-Pacifici (eds.). Conceiving the Social with Big Data: A Symposium of Social and Cultural Scientists, special issue of Big Data & Society 2(2) (2015). Click for Table of Contents.

Robin Wagner-Pacifici, John W. Mohr, and R.L. Breiger. “Ontologies, methodologies, and new uses of Big Data in the social and cultural sciences.” Big Data & Society 2(2) (2015). Click to read.

R.L. Breiger. “Scaling Down.” Big Data & Society 2(2) (2015). Click to read.

John W. Mohr, Robin Wagner-Pacifici, and R.L. Breiger. “Toward a Computational Hermeneutics.” Big Data & Society 2(2) (2015). Click to read.

Matthew Dabkowski, R.L. Breiger, and Ferenc Szidarovszky, “Simuntaneous-Direct Blockmodeling for Multiple Relations in Pajek.” Social Networks 40 (2015): 1-16. Click to read.

R.L. Breiger and Lauren Pinson. “A New Approach for Identification of Multiple Threat Scenarios to Counter CBRN Networks.” In Luke M. Gerdes (ed.), Illuminating Dark Networks: The Study of Clandestine Groups and Organizations. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015, 157-70. (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences series) More information.

Ronald L. Breiger. Explorations in Structural Analysis (RLE Social Theory): Dual and Multiple Networks of Social Interaction. New York: Routledge, 2015 (first published 1991); paperback ed., 2016. More information.

R.L. Breiger and Kyle Puetz, “Culture and Networks.” International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd. ed. (2015), 557-562. Click to read.

R.L. Breiger and David Melamed, “The Duality of Organizations and their Attributes: Turning Regression Modeling ‘Inside Out.’” Research in the Sociology of Organizations 40 (2014): 261-274.  Table of Contents. Click to read.

R.L. Breiger, 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 (2014): 23-39. Click to read.

John W. Mohr, Robin Wagner-Pacifici, R.L. Breiger, and Petko Bogdanov. “Graphing the grammar of motives in U.S. National Security Strategies: Cultural interpretation, automated text analysis and the drama of global politics.” Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media, and the Arts 41 (2013): 670-700.

Barbara J. Mills, Jeffrey J. Clark, Matthew A. Peeples, W.R. Haas, Jr., J.M. Roberts, Jr., J.B. Hill, D.L. Huntley, L. Borck, R.L. Breiger, A. Clauset, and M.S. Shackley, “Transformation of social networks in the late pre-Hispanic US Southwest.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA [PNAS] 110 (15): 5785-5790 (2013). Click to read. Or, read the full text and supporting information [17 pages].

Barbara J. Mills, John M. Roberts, Jeffery J. Clark, William R. Haas Jr., Deborah Huntley, Matthew A. Peeples, Lewis Borck, Susan C. Ryan, Meaghan Trowbridge and Ronald L. Breiger, “The Dynamics of Social Networks in the Late Prehispanic U.S. Southwest.” In Carl Knappett (ed.), Network Analysis in Archaeology: New Approaches to Regional Integration. Oxford University Press, 2013, 181-202. More information.

David Melamed, R.L. Breiger, and A. Joseph West, “Community structure in multi-mode networks: Applying an eigenspectrum approach.” Connections 33 (1), 2013: 18-23. Click to read.

Ray-May Hsung and R.L. Breiger, “Similarities and Differences in Relation-Specific Social Resources among Three Societies: Taiwan, China, and the United States.” In Nan Lin, Yang-chih Fu, and Chih-jou Jay Chen (eds.), Social Capital and its Institutional Contingency: A Study of the United States, China, and Taiwan. New York: Routledge, 2013, 83-98. More information.

David Melamed, R.L. Breiger, and Eric Schoon, “The Duality of Clusters and Statistical Interactions.” Sociological Methods & Research 42 (2013): 41-59.  Click to read.

David Melamed, Eric Schoon, R.L. Breiger, V. Asal, and R.K. Rethemeyer, “Using Organizational Similarity to Identify Statistical Interactions for Improving Situational Awareness of CBRN Activities.” Pp. 61-68 In S.J. Yang, A.M. Greenberg, and M. Endsley (eds.), Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction. Springer (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7227), 2012, 61-68. Click to read.

R.L. Breiger, Gary A. Ackerman, Victor Asal, David Melamed, H.Brinton Milward, R.Karl Rethemeyer, Eric Schoon, “Application of a Profile Similarity Methodology for Identifying Terrorist Groups that Use or Pursue CBRN Weapons.” In J. Salerno, S.J. Yang, D. Nau, S.-K. Chai (eds.), Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction. Springer (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6589), 2011, 26-33. Click to read.

R.L. Breiger, “Dualities of Culture and Structure: Seeing through Cultural Holes.” Pp. 37-47 In Jan Fuhse and Sophie Mützel (eds.), Relationale Soziologie: Zur kulturellen Wende der Netzwerkforschung [Relational Sociology: The Cultural Turn in Network Research]. VS Verlag, 2010, 37-47. Click to read.

Mark A. Pachucki and R.L. Breiger, “Cultural Holes: Beyond Relationality in Social Networks and Culture.” Annual Review of Sociology 36 (2010): 205-224. Click to read.

Jennifer Schultz and R.L. Breiger, “The Strength of Weak Culture.” Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media, and the Arts 38 (2010): 610-624. Click to read.

R.L. Breiger, “On the Duality of Cases and Variables: Correspondence Analysis (CA) and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA).” In David Byrne and Charles C. Ragin (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Case-Based Methods. London: Sage, 2009, 243-259. More information.  Read the “Discussion” section.

Ray-May Hsung, Nan Lin, and Ronald L. Breiger (eds.) Contexts of Social Capital: Social Networks in Markets, Communities, and Families. New York and London: Routledge, 2009 (paperback ed. 2012). More information. — Read review by Mario Small.

Ray-May Hsung and R.L. Breiger, “Position generators, affiliations, and the institutional logics of social capital: A study of Taiwan firms ad individuals.”  Pp. 3-27 in Hsung, Lin, and Breiger, eds. ([2009] 2012), ibid. Read a preview.

R.L. Breiger, “The Analysis of Social Networks.” Pp. 505–526 in Handbook of Data Analysis, edited by Melissa Hardy and Alan Bryman. London: Sage Publications, [2004] 2009, paperback ed. More information. Read a selection.

R.L. Breiger, “Comment [on Mark S. Handcock, Adrian E. Raftery, and Jeremy M. Tantrum, Model-Based Clustering for Social Networks],” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 170 (2007): 332-33. Click to read.

R.L. Breiger, “Culture and Classification in Markets: An Introduction.” Poetics 33 (2005): 157-162. Click to read.

Yanjie Bian, Ronald Breiger, Deborah Davis, and Joseph Galaskiewicz, “Occupation, Class, and Social Networks in Urban China.” Social Forces 83 (2005): 1443-1468. Click to read.

Chinese-language version of Bian et al., in Jean Hung and Hsin-chi Kuan (eds.), Studies on the Beginning of 21st Century China by Chinese and Western Scholars. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press (2009), pp. 395-417. More information.

R.L. Breiger, “Ethical Dilemmas in Social Network Research: Introduction to Special Issue.” Social Networks 27 / 2 (2005): 89 – 93. Click to read. Special issue table of contents.

R.L. Breiger and John W. Mohr, “Institutional Logics from the Aggregation of Organizational Networks: Operational Procedures for the Analysis of Counted Data.”  Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory 10 (2004): 17–43. Click to read.

R.L. Breiger y John W. Mohr (traducción: Isidro Maya Jariego), “La dualidad y la agregación de categorías sociales.” REDES – Revista Hispana para el Análysis de Redes Sociales, 5 (2004).  Click to read.

John Sonnett and Ronald Breiger, “How Relational Methods Matter.” Culture 19:1 (2004): 1, 8-10.  Click to read. Read Andrew Perrin’s Reply.

Ronald Breiger, Kathleen Carley, and Philippa Pattison (editors), Dynamic Social Network Modeling and Analysis: Workshop Summary and Papers.  National Academy of Sciences / National Research Council, Committee on Human Factors. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2003.  Read the book online.   Read reviews by Sandra Gonzalez and by John Skvoretz.

Breiger, Carley, and Pattison, “Workshop Summary,” ibid., pp. 1-14. Read it online.

R.L. Breiger, ““Emergent Themes in Social Network Analysis: Results, Challenges, Opportunities,” ibid., pp. 19-35. Read it online.

David Stark, Szabolcs Kemeny, and R.L. Breiger, “Postsocialist Portfolios: Network Strategies in the Shadow of the State.” manuscript in pdf format  Published in the Hungarian journal Közgazdasági Szemle, 47 (2000): 393-405 (Part I) and 47 (2000): 430-445 (Part II). Read English version.

Philippa E. Pattison and R.L. Breiger, “Lattices and Dimensional Representations: Matrix Decompositions and Ordering Structures.” Social Networks 24 (2002): 423-444. Click to read.

R.L. Breiger, “Poststructuralism in Organizational Studies.” Research in the Sociology of Organizations 19 (2002): 295-305. (Volume on Social Structure and Organizations Revisited, edited by Michael Lounsbury and Marc J. Ventresca.) Click to read.

R.L. Breiger, “Writing (and Quantifying) Sociology.” In Jonathan Monroe, ed., Writing and Revising the Disciplines. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002, 90-112. page proofs in pdf format.

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. Click to read.

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. Click to read.

R.L. Breiger, “Social Structure and the Phenomenology of Attainment.” Annual Review of Sociology 21 (1995): 115-136. Click to read.

Shin-Kap Han and R.L. Breiger, “Dimensions of Corporate Social Capital: Toward Models and Measures.” In Roger Th.A.J. Leenders and Shaul M. Gabbay, eds., Corporate Social Capital and Liability. Boston: Kluwer, 1999, 118-133. Click to read.

R.L. Breiger and John M. Roberts, Jr., “Solidarity and Social Networks.” In Patrick Doreian and Thomas Fararo, eds., The Problem of Solidarity: Theory and Models. Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach, 1998, 239-262. Click to read.