Jeroen Bruggeman

Associate Professor of Sociology

University of Amsterdam

E-mail: j.p.bruggeman@uva.nl

Address: Department of Sociology, Universiteit van Amsterdam,  Nieuwe Achtergracht 166,  1018 WV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.  

Office: Roeterseiland, room B6.10

Research

My main scientific interest is the cultural evolution of humankind, seen as a complex dynamic network. 

Organization

I'm the organizer of the Methods Support of the AISSR (Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research), it’s website, and the “Flying Circus” of methods courses, where I teach Social Network Analysis, R-bootcamp, Statistics with R, Complexity in Social Science, and LaTeX.

Books

A Sociology of Humankind: How We Are Formed by Culture, Cooperation, and Conflict (2024). New York: Routledge.

Social Networks: An Introduction. (2008) New York: Routledge. See additional web materials. The pertaining igraph software is a package of open source program R. When I wrote the book, igraph had its own Graphical User Interface but as that creates tacit problems (different computations than you might expect), I strongly recommend to use the Command Line Interface instead.

Recent papers

Bruggeman, J (2023) Collective memory, consensus, and learning explained by network connectivityarXiv. Data and code: see link in the paper.

Bruggeman, J, Weenink, D, Mak, B (2022) An Ising model of bursts and fizzles in intergroup violence. arXiv. Data and code: see link in the paper. A mini version is in the Book of Abstracts of the Complex Networks conference, 2022, pp. 351-354.

Journal publications

Bruggeman, J, Corten, R (2021) Social cohesion and cooperation for public goods. Connections 41: 1-6. Data: see link in the paper.

Bruggeman, J, Sprik, R (2020) Cooperation for public goods under uncertaintyLecture Notes in Computer Science 12140: 243-251. Data: none

Bruggeman, J, Sprik, R, Quax, R (2021) Spontaneous cooperation for public goods. Journal of Mathematical Sociology 45: 183-191. Data: none. [published online in 2020, before "Cooperation for public goods under uncertainty."]

De Vries, D, Bruggeman, J, Turinawe, EB, Rwemisisi JT, Musinguzi, LK, Muhangi, D, Pool, RC (2020) Social networks for health communication in rural Uganda. Global Public Health 1-15. Data: at first author.

Bruggeman, J (2018) Consensus, cohesion and connectivity. Social Networks 52: 115-119.  Data: re-used experimental data from papers cited. Notice that matrix P in Eq.5 is wrong, which does not affect the empirical results, though; the error has been corrected in the version linked to here.

Bruggeman, J (2017) Solving problems in social groups. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114: E9183.

Bruggeman, J (2016) The strength of varying tie strength. American Journal of Sociology 121: 1919-1930. Data: www.fcc.gov/wtb/auctions

Uitermark, J, Traag, VA, Bruggeman, J (2016) Dissecting discursive contention: a relational analysis of the Dutch debate on minority integration, 1990 – 2006. Social Networks 47: 107-115. Data: available from Justus Uitermark.

Gerxhani, K, Bruggeman, J (2015) Time lag and communication in changing unpopular norms. PLoS ONE 10: e0124715. Experimental data.

Bruggeman, J, Péli, G (2014) Small firm subsistence and market dimensionality. International Journal of Modern Physics C 25: 1450053. Data: stylized facts from other studies cited in ours.

Bruggeman, J, Traag, VA Uitermark, J (2012) Detecting communities through network data. American Sociological Review 77: 1050–1063. Data: available from Justus Uitermark.

Huisman, C, Bruggeman J (2012) The social network, background, and school track of adolescent smokers in the Netherlands. International Journal of Behavioral Development 36: 329–337. Data: available from Chip Huisman.

Uitermark, J, Traag, VA, Bruggeman, J (2012) De strijd om discursieve macht. Een relationele discoursanalyse van het Nederlandse integratiedebat, 1990-2005. Sociologie 8: 219–247. Data: available from Justus Uitermark.

Bruggeman, J, Grunow, D, Leenders, MAAM, Vermeulen, I, Kuilman, J (2012) Market positioning: The shifting effects of niche overlap. Industrial and Corporate Change pp. 1–27. Data: available from the author.

Traag, VA, Bruggeman, J (2009 ) Community detection in networks with positive and negative links. Physical Review E80, 036115. Data: http://www.correlatesofwar.org/

Carnabuci, G, Bruggeman, J (2009) Knowledge specialization, knowledge brokerage, and the uneven growth of technology domains. Social Forces 88: 607–641. Data: http://www.uspto.gov/

Koster, F, Bruggeman, J (2008) The institutional embeddedness of social capital: A multilevel investigation across 24 countries. Policy and Politics 36: 397–412. Data: ISSP.

Péli, G, Bruggeman, J (2007) The cricket and the ant: organizational trade-offs in changing environments. Journal of Mathematical Sociology 31: 205–235.

Péli, G, Bruggeman, J (2006) Networks embedded in n-dimensional space: the impact of dimensionality change. Social Networks 28: 449-453.

Bruggeman, J, Visser, HJ, van Rossum, W (2003) Bounded rationality at large: network externalities in airwaves auctions. Social Forces 81: 167–171. Data: www.fcc.gov/wtb/auctions

Bruggeman, J, Carnabuci, G, Vermeulen, I (2003) A note on structural holes theory and niche overlap. Social Networks 25: 97–101.

Bruggeman, J, Vermeulen, I (2002) A Logical Toolkit for Theory (Re)construction. Sociological Methodology 32: 183–217. Among sociologists and others, there exist a number of pervasive misunderstandings about formalization, which I attempt to clarify in a Web document that was initially an appendix, but is no longer part of the Logical Toolkit paper. Data: text fragment quoted in the paper.

Vermeulen, I, Bruggeman, J (2001) The Logic of Organizational Markets: Thinking Through Resource Partitioning Theory. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory 7: 87–111. Data: text fragment quoted in the paper.

Bruggeman, J,  Ó Nualláin, B (2000) A Niche Width Model of Optimal Specialization. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory 6: 161–170.

Bruggeman, J (1997) Niche Width Theory Reappraised. Journal of Mathematical Sociology 22: 201–220. Data: text fragment quoted in the paper.

Bruggeman J (1997) Formalizing Organizational Ecology, PhD-thesis. Summary published in Logic in the Netherlands 1-1: 23-24 (1997). Data: text fragments quoted in the book.

Péli, G, Bruggeman, J, Masuch, M, Ó Nualláin, B (1994) A Logical Approach to Formalizing Organizational Ecology, American Sociological Review 59: 571–593. Data: text fragment quoted in the paper.

Papers for a broader audience and book reviews

Bruggeman, J (2016) Social cooperation among agnostics. Nature 532: 177.

Bruggeman, J (2016) Netwerksociologie. Sociologie Magazine, september: 6-8.

Bruggeman, J (2015) Research and replication. Science online.

Bruggeman, J (2015) Deceit and self-deception by Robert Trivers. Book review. Sociological Forum 30: 243-248.

Bruggeman, J (2006) De ideeënwereld als netwerk. Techno, Oktober, pp.20–21.

Bruggeman, J (2001) The Demography of Corporations and Industries by Carroll, GR and Hannan, MT. Book review. Contemporary Sociology, January, pp.39–40.

Teaching

Sociology/Evolution of Humankind in different version for Honours program and BA. See my book.

Social Network Analysis in different versions for Research MA, Summer/Spring Schools (below) and BA-thesis. See my textbook.

Summer/Spring Schools on Social Network Analysis: Interdisciplinary College IK (2017); St Petersburg University, Russia (2012); Konstanz University, Germany (2011).

Past (Amsterdam): Complexity science (BA); Social Networks (MA); Statistics (BA); Formal theory (re)construction (MA); Argumentation (BA); Social Capital (MA); Research Methods (BA); Sociological Theory (BA); Co-evolution of culture and biology (BA); Organizational Sociology (BA and MA).

Past (Groningen): Organizations (BA); History of Labor Relations in the Netherlands (BA, part of a Labor Law course).