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Dr. Ronald Breiger is a Regents Professor and a Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona, where he also holds affiliations with the Interdisci- plinary Program in Applied Mathematics, the Inter- disciplinary Program in Statistics & Data Science, and the School of Government and Public Policy. Breiger (PhD Harvard, 1975) was a faculty member at Harvard University (Assistant to Associate Professor) and Cornell University (Professor to Goldwin Smith Professor of Sociology) before coming to the University of Arizona in 2000. Named a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and a Fulbright Senior Scholar, Breiger is a recipient of the Simmel Award of the International Network for Social Network Analysis, and in 2018 he received the James S. Coleman Distinguished Career Achievement Award given by the American Sociological Association Section on Mathematical Sociology. With Linton Freeman, he has served as Editor of the journal Social Networks (1998-2006), and he was Editor for Social and Political Science of the journal Network Science (2016-19). He currently serves as an Academic Editor of PLoS ONE and on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Cultural Sociology and the journal Poetics. Breiger chaired a 2002 National Academy of Sciences workshop on dynamic social network modeling and analysis, which focused on contributions of that area to national needs. Links to selected publications, recent grants, and current affiliations are provided at the right and at the top-right of each page.Breiger's interests include social networks, adversarial networks, stratification, mathematical models, theory, and measurement issues in cultural and institutional analysis.Show Less
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Courses
- SNSocial Networks
- STSociological Theory
- QRSQuantitative Reasoning in Sociology
- MSNAMethods for Social Network Analysis
- SSSocial Statistics
- ATSAdvanced Topics in Stratification
- FMCAFormal Models of Cultural Analysis
Grants
- Predicting Rare Events by Reducing Unlikely Cases and Decomposing Statistical Models
Principal Investigator (PI)
2018
$92.0K
- Unifying Approaches to Adversarial Modeling
Principal Investigator (PI)
2015
$99.4K
- SBE TTP: Medium: Securing Cyber Space: Understanding the Cyber Attackers and Attacks via Social Media Analytics
Co-Investigator (COI)
2013
$1.3M
- EAGER: Human-Centric Predictive Analytics of Cyber-Threats: a Temporal Dynamics Approach
Co-Investigator (COI)
2013
$200.0K
- New Analytic Methods for the Exploitation of Open-Source Structured Data Bases on the Pursuit of WMD Terrorism
Principal Investigator (PI)
2010
$1.8M
- Inferring Structure and Forecasting Dynamics on Evolving Networks
Co-Investigator (COI)
2010
$1.5M
Books
- Explorations in Structural Analysis (book states "This edition first published in 2015"; reprints Breiger 1991.)
2015
- Contexts of Social Capital: Social Networks in Communities, Markets, and Families
2012
- Dynamic Social Network Modeling and Analysis: Workshop Summary and Papers
2003
News
- 7 UA Faculty Members Honored in Campus Ceremony
2017
- 3 UA Faculty Members Named Regents' Professors
2016
- UA Talent Pipeline Stopping Data Breaches
2015
- Artifacts Shed Light on Social Networks of the Past
2013
- $5.4M in Cybersecurity Grants Awarded to UA Regents' Professor Hsinchun Chen
2013
- The Social Science of Cyberattacks
2013
Publications (91)
Recent
- span style= color:#403635;font-size:16px; CONCOR Revisited: Algebraic Clarifications and Practical Implications /span
2022
- Sampling Variability and Centrality Score Comparisons in Archaeological Network Analysis: A Case Study of the San Pedro Valley, Arizona
2022
- A concluding comment: Toward a critical social network analysis
2021
- Special issue of a journal -- Discourse, Meaning, and Networks: Advances in Socio-Semantic Analysis
2020
- Network Theories
2020
- Social stratification and economy: class, power and status factors in economic actions and processes
2020
- Finding globally optimal macrostructure in multiple relation, mixed-mode social networks
2020
- Duality beyondPersons and Groups
2020
- In appreciation of John Mohr
2020
- Extreme and Inconsistent: A Case-Oriented Regression Analysis of Health, Inequality, and Poverty
2020
- Socio-semantic and other dualities
2020
- Precluding Rare Outcomes by Predicting their Absence
2019
- Multimodal Graph Analysis of Cyber Attacks
2019
- Capturing distinctions while mining text data: Toward low-tech formalization for text analysis
2018
- Capturing Distinctions while Mining Text Data: Toward Low-Tech Formalization
2018
- Insurgencies as Networks of Event Orderings
2018
- Markets as Governance Environments for Organizations at the Edge of Illegality: Insights from Social Network Analysis
2017
- Networks of Legitimation and the Multiple Paths to Conflict Recurrence
2017
- Governance in Online Stolen Data Markets
2017
- Testing Theories Using Regression
2016
- Brokers or Bridges? Exploring Structural Holes in a Crowdsourcing System
2016
- Explorations in structural analysis: Dual and multiple networks of social interaction
2016
- Brokers or Bridges: Structural Holes in Crowdsourcing Systems
2016
- Exploratory Blockmodeling for One-mode, Unsigned, Deterministic Networks using Integer Programming and Structural Equivalence
2016
- Toward a computational hermeneutics
2015
- Scaling down
2015
- A new approach for identification of multiple threat scenarios to counter cbrn networks
2015
- Culture and Networks
2015
- Special Issue of a journal -- Assumptions of Sociality: A Colloquium of Social and Cultural Scientists
2015
- Ontologies, methodologies, and new uses of Big Data in the social and cultural sciences
2015
- Simultaneous-direct blockmodeling for multiple relations in Pajek
2015
- Book Reviews: Social Network Analysis, Third Edition What Is Social Network Analysis?
2014
- Toward an Economic Sociology of Online Hacker Social Communities
2014
- Comparative configurational analysis as a two-mode network problem: A study of terrorist group engagement in the drug trade
2014
- The Duality of Organizations and their Attributes: Turning Regression Modeling 'Inside Out'
2014
- The duality of organizations and their attributes: Turning regression modeling "inside out
2014
- Comparative Configurational Analysis as a Two-Mode Network Problem: A Study Terrorist Group Engagement in the Drug Trade
2014
- The Dynamics of Social Networks in the Late Prehispanic U.S. Southwest
2013
- Graphing the grammar of motives in National Security Strategies: Cultural interpretation, automated text analysis and the drama of global politics
2013
- Similarities and differences in Relation-Specific social resources among three societies: Taiwan, China and the United States
2013
- Community Structure in Multi-Mode Networks: Applying an Eigenspectrum Approach
2013
- Transformation of Social Networks in the Late Pre-Hispanic US Southwest
2013
- Graphing the Grammar of Motives in U.S. National Security Strategies: Cultural Interpretation, Automated Text Analysis and the Drama of Global Politics
2013
- Using organizational similarity to identify statistical interactions for improving situational awareness of CBRN activities
2012
- The Duality of Clusters and Statistical Interactions
2012
- Solidarity and social networks
2012
- Some Challenges in Multilevel Social Network Research
2011
- Baruch Spinoza
2011
- Application of a profile similarity methodology for identifying terrorist groups that use or pursue CBRN weapons
2011
- The Analysis of Social Networks
2011
- Cultural holes: Beyond relationality in social networks and culture
2010
- Dualities of Culture and Structure: Seeing Through Cultural Holes
2010
- Contexts of Social Capital
2010
- Cultural Holes: Beyond Relationality in Social Networks and Culture.
2010
- The strength of weak culture
2010
- Position Generators, Affiliations, and the Institutional Logics of Social Capital
2010
- Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis
2008
- Discussion on the paper by Handcock, Raftery and Tantrum
2007
- Zhongguo Chengshi de Zhiye, Jieceng, he Guanxiwang [translation of Bian et al., 2005]
2005
- Occupation, class, and social networks in urban China
2005
- Introduction to Special Issue: Ethical Dilemmas in Social Network Research
2005
- White, Harrison
2005
- Culture and Classification in Markets: An Introduction
2005
- Institutional Logics from the Aggregation of Organizational Networks: Operational Procedures for the Analysis of Counted Data
2004
- Editorial
2004
- La dualidad y la agregación de categorías sociales
2004
- Dynamic Social Network Modeling and Analysis
2003
- Poststructuralism in organizational studies
2002
- Writing (and Quantifying) Sociology
2002
- Lattices and dimensional representations: Matrix decompositions and ordering structures
2002
- A tool kit for practice theory
2000
- Control social y redes sociales: un modelo a partir de George Simmel
2000
- review of Generating Social Stratification: Toward a New Research Agenda
1999
- Social Structure and the Phenomenology of Attainment
1995
- Socioeconomic Achievement and Social Structure
1995
- Social Mobility and Social Structure. Edited by Ronald L. Breiger. Cambridge University Press, 1990. 364 pp. $44.50
1994
- Analyzing Implications Grids Using Hierarchical Models
1990
- Careers, industries, and occupations
1988
- On Occupational Mobility and Social Class
1987
- Cumulated social roles: The duality of persons and their algebras
1986
- The Social Class Structure of Occupational Mobility
1981
- An Exponential Family of Probability Distributions for Directed Graphs: Comment
1981
- Comment
1981
- Personae and Social Roles: The Network Structure of Personality Types in Small Groups
1979
- Toward an operational theory of community elite structures
1979
- The Joint Role Structure of Two Communities' Elites
1978
- Social Structure from Multiple Networks. I. Blockmodels of Roles and Positions
1976
- Career Attributes and Network Structure
1976
- An algorithm for clustering relational data with applications to social network analysis and comparison with multidimensional scaling
1975
- Pattern across networks
1975
- The duality of persons and groups
1974