Roles and Positions

Methods

• Breiger, R., Boorman, S. & Arabie, P. 1975. An algorithm for clustering relational data with applications to social network analysis and comparison with multidimensional scaling. Journal of Mathematical Psychology 12: 328-383. [^pdf]

• Faust, Katherine and A. Kimball Romney. 1985. Does structure find structure?: A critique of Burt's use of distance as a measure of structural equivalence. Social Networks, 7:77 103

Concepts and Theory

• DiMaggio and Powell. 1983. The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism ... American Sociological Review 48(2): 147-160. [pdf]

• White, Harrison, S. Boorman, and Ronald Breiger 1976 "Social structure from multiple

• networks: I. Blockmodels of roles and positions." American Journal of Sociology, 81:

• 730-780.

• Boorman, S. and Harrison White 1976 "Social structure from multiple networks: II. Role

• structures." American Journal of Sociology, 81: 1384-1446 [^pdf]

• Everett, M.G., & Borgatti, S. P. 1994. Regular equivalence: General theory. Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 19(1): 29-52. [pdf]

Applications

• Burt, R.S. & Talmud, I. 1993. Market niche. Social Networks. 15: 133-149

• DiMaggio, P. 1986. Structural analysis of organizational fields: A blockmodel approach. Research in Organizational Behavior 8: 335-70.

• Galaskiewicz, J. & Burt, R.S. 1991. Interorganizational contagion in corporate philanthropy. Administrative Science Quarterly 36: 88-105.

• Gerlach, Michael L. 1992 "The Japanese corporate network: A blockmodel approach." Administrative Science Quarterly, 37: 105 139

• Padgett, J. F. and C. K. Ansell. 1993. "Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434." American Journal of Sociology 98:1259

• Nancy J. Herman, “Conflict in the Church: A Social Network Analysis of an Anglican

• Congregation.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 23 (1984): 60-74.

• Paul DiMaggio, "Structural Analysis of Organizational Fields: A Blockmodel

• Approach," pp. 335-370 in Barry M. Staw and L. L. Cummings (eds.), Research in

• Organizational Behavior 8 (1986). Westport, CT: JAI Press.

• Anheier, Helmut K., Jürgen Gerhards, and Frank P. Romo, "Forms of Capital and Social

• Structure in Cultural Fields: Examination of Bourdieu's Social Topography." American

• Journal of Sociology 100 (January 1995): 859-903.

• Robert R. Faulkner, Music on Demand: Composers and Careers in the Hollywood Film

• Industry (1983), pp. 185-99 and 218-21.

• Katherine Giuffre, “Sandpiles of Opportunity: Success in the Art World.” Social Forces

• 77 (1999): 815-32.

• Mario Diani, “Britain Re-Creates the Social Movement: Contentious (and Not-socontentious)

• Networks in Glasgow,” unpublished (October 2002).

• Michael L. Gerlach, "The Japanese Corporate Network: A Blockmodel Analysis,"

• Administrative Science Quarterly 37 (March 1992): 105-139.