John Levi Martin: 

Department of Sociology

University of Chicago

"Party Simply, so that Others may Simply Party."

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BOOKS

2011 The Explanation of Social Action. Oxford University Press.

2009 Social Structures. Princeton University Press. 

ARTICLES:

Forthcoming “Who’s Afraid of Christian Wolff? A Dissection of Habitus in Body and Soul.” Theory and Psychology.

2011 “Stranger Danger: A Comment on ‘Strange Music.’ In Bell, Michael M, et al. The Strange Music of Social Life: A Dialogue on Dialogic Sociology. Ann Goetting, ed. Temple University Press.

2011 “Immanuel Kant: A Grammar for the Relation between Cognition and Action.” Pp. 279-288 in Sociological Insights of Great Thinkers, edited by Christofer Edling and Jens Rydgren. Praeger.

2010 “Life’s a Beach but You’re an Ant, and Other Unwelcome News for the Sociology of Culture.” Poetics 38: 228-243.

2010 (With Monica Lee). “Wie entstehen große sozialen Strukturen?” Pp. 117-136 in Relationale Soziologie: Zur kulturellen Wende der Netzwerkforschung, edited by Jan Fuhse and Sophie Mützel. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.

2010 (With Matt Desmond). “Political Position and Social Knowledge.” Sociological Forum 25:1-26.

2009 “The Formation and Stabilization of Vertical Hierarchies among Adolescents: Towards a Quantitative Ethology of Dominance among Humans.” Social Psychology Quarterly 72: 241-264.

2007 (With Adam Slez:) “Political Action and Party Formation in the United States Constitutional Convention.” American Sociological Review 72:42-67.

2006 “Jointness and Duality in Algebraic Approaches to Dichotomous Data.” Sociological Methods and Research 35:159-192.

2006 (With King-To Yeung). “Persistence of Close Personal Ties over a Twelve Year Period.” Social Networks 28:331-362.

2006 (With Matt George). “Theories of Sexual Stratification: Toward an Analytics of the Sexual Field and a Theory of Sexual Capital.” Sociological Theory 24:107-132.

2005 “The Objective and Subjective Rationalization of War.” Theory and Society 34: 229-275.

2005 “Is Power Sexy?” American Journal of Sociology 111:408-446.

2004 (With Sylvia Fuller). “Gendered Power Dynamics in Intentional Communities.” Social Psychology Quarterly 67:369-384.

2003 “What is Field Theory?” American Journal of Sociology 109: 1-49.

2003 (With King-To Yeung). “The Use of the Conceptual Category of Race in American Sociology, 1937-1999.” Sociological Forum 18:521-543.

2003 (With Sylvia Fuller). “Women’s Status in Eastern NRMs.” Review of Religious Research 44:354-369.

2003 (With King-To Yeung). “The Looking Glass Self: An Empirical Test and Elaboration.” Social Forces 81:843-879.

2003 (With James Wiley and Dennis Osborn). “Social Networks and Unobserved Heterogeneity for Risk of AIDS.” Population Research and Policy Review 22:65-90.

2002 “Power, Authority, and the Constraint of Belief Systems.” American Journal of Sociology 107: 861-904. 

2002 “Some Algebraic Structures for Diffusion in Social Networks.” Journal of Mathematical Sociology 26: 123-146.

2001 (With King-To Yeung and Benjamin Zablocki). “The Urban Communes Data Set: A Gold Mine for Secondary Analysis.” Connections 24:54-59.

2001 “On the Limits of Sociological Theory.” Philosophy of the Social Sciences 31:187-223.

2001 “The Authoritarian Personality 50 Years Later: What Lessons are There for Political Psychology?” Political Psychology 22: 1-26.

2000 “The Relation of Aggregate Statistics on Belief to Culture and Cognition.” Poetics 28:5-20.

2000 (With James Wiley:) “Algebraic Representations of Beliefs and Attitudes II: Microbelief Models for Dichotomous Belief Data.” Sociological Methodology 30:123-164.

2000 “What Do Animals Do All Day?: On the Totemic Logic of Class Bodies.” Poetics 27:195-231.

1999 “A General Permutation-Based QAP Analysis for Dyadic Data from Multiple Groups.” Connections 22: 50-60.

1999 “The Myth of the Consumption-Oriented Economy and the Rise of the Desiring Subject.” Theory and Society 28:425-453.

1999 (With James Wiley:) “Algebraic Representations of Beliefs and Attitudes: Partial Order Models for Item Responses.” Sociological Methodology 29:113-146.

1999 “Entropic Measures of Belief System Constraint.” Social Science Research 28:111-134.

1998 “Authoritative Knowledge and Heteronomy in Classical Sociological Theory.” Sociological Theory 16:99-131.

1998 “Structures of Power in Naturally Occurring Communities.” Social Networks 20:197-225.

1996 “Structuring the Sexual Revolution.” Theory and Society 25:105-151.

1995 “Chance and Causality: A Comment on Manis and Meltzer.” Sociological Theory 13:197-202.

 

Unpublished Conference Papers: I'll get to these soon....

2010 “Secret Plans for Mathematical Sociology REVEALED.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta.

2008 “Don’t Bogart that Joint Homomorphic Reduction, or, When You Reduce the Complexity of Social Life to a Bunch of Ones and Zeros, From Where Do You Get the Ones?” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Boston.

2006 “The Dimensionality of Discrete Factor Analyses and the Relations of Some Algebraic Approaches.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Montreal.

2005 (With James Wiley and Stephen Herschkorn:) “A New Extension of the Binomial Error Model for Responses to Items of Varying Difficulty in Educational Testing and Social Surveys.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia.

2003 “What’s in a Phoneme? Comment on Lieberson’s A Matter of Taste.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta.

2003 “What Do We Mean by Meaning? Social Networks, Duality and Culture.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta.

1999 “Structural Properties of Power Networks and Subjective Legitimacy.” Paper presented at the 1999 meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago.

1997 “Power, Influence, and Cultures of Legitimacy.” Paper presented at the 1997 meetings of the American Sociological Association, Toronto.

Unpublished/able Invited Presentations:

Indiana University (Sociology Department, April 9, 2010), “That’s When I Reach For My Revolver, Being an Answer to Three Questions put to Myself from the Politics, Economy and Culture Workshop.”

Conference on Bringing Bourdieu to Sexual Life (University of Toronto, May 22, 2010), “The Crucial Place of Sexual Decision Making for Field Theoretic Inquiries.”