John Levi Martin

 

select from...

THEORY      (The logic of explanation; Field theory; Classical theory)

METHODS      (Algebraic approaches; Social networks; Other)

CULTURE      (Culture and cognition; Webs and systems)

SOCIAL NETWORKS/SOCIAL STRUCTURE

POLITICS AND IDEOLOGY

WAR AND HISTORY     

SEX/GENDER      (Power and gender; Sexual revolutions)

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY/INTERACTION

 

* note:  the same piece may be multiply classified....

 

 

Theory

The logic of explanation

(also see the section on dialogue and debate)

2015    Thinking Through TheoryNorton.

2011    The Explanation of Social ActionOxford University Press.

2023 (With Alessandra Lembo and Xiangyu Ma:)  “New Directions in the Sociology of Morality.”  Pp. 3–24 in Handbook of the Sociology of Morality, Volume 2, edited by Steven Hitlin, Aliza Luft, and  Shai M. Dromi.  Cham:  Springer.

2022 (With Alessandra Lembo:)  “Response to Vaisey.”  Sociological Forum 37(1): 294-303.

2022 “What Should Sociologists Get Out of Pragmatism?”  Pp. 33-59 in The New Pragmatist Sociology: Inquiry, Agency, and Democracy, edited by Christopher Winship, Neil Gross and Isaac Reed.  New York:  Columbia University Press.

2021  (With Alessandra Lembo:
) “
On the Other Side of Interests.” In Handbook of Classical Sociological Theory, edited by Seth Abrutyn and Omar Lizardo. New York: Springer.

2020  (With Alessandra Lembo:)  On the Other Side of Values.”  American Journal of Sociology 126: 52-98.

2018    “Getting Off the Cartesian Clothesline.”  Sociological Theory 36: 194-200.

2016 “Toward a Nightmare-Resistant Sociology.” Contemporary Sociology 45: 535-542

2015 “Opportunities for Further Examinations of the Form of the Form.” Revue 17:56-59.

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.

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

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

 

 

Field theory

2011    The Explanation of Social ActionOxford University Press.

2023 Theories of Disorder and Order, Energy and Information, in Sociological Thought.”  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series A 381: 20220292.

2019 “Can Carnal Sociology Bring Together Body and Soul?, or, Who’s Afraid of Christian Wolff?”  Pp. 115-136 in the Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Sociology, edited by Wayne Brekhus and Gabriel Ignatow.  New York:  Oxford.

2018  (With Chad Borkenhagen:)  “Status and Career Mobility in Organizational Fields: Chefs and Restaurants in the United States, 1990 – 2013.”  Social Forces 97: 1–26.

2018  “Bourdieu’s Unlikely Contribution to the Human Sciences.”  Pp. 435-543 in The Oxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu, edited by Thomas Medvetz and Jeffrey Sallaz.  New York:  Oxford.

2016 “Field Theory and Self-Organization.”  Zeitschrift für theoretische Soziologie 5: 158-181.

2016 (With Adam Slez and Chad Borkhenhagen:) “Some Provisional Techniques for Quantifying the Degree of Field Effect in Social Data.” Socius 2: 1 –18.

2015 (With Ben Merriman.) “A Social Aesthetics as a General Cultural Sociology?” Pp. 132- 148 in International Handbook of Sociology of Sociology of Art and Culture, edited by Laurie Hanquinet and Mike Savage. London: Routledge.

2014 (With Forest Gregg).  "Was Bourdieu a Field Theorist?"  In Bourdieu's Theory of Social Fields: Concepts and Applications, edited by Mathieu Hilgers and Eric Mangez.  London:  Routledge.

2014 “The Crucial Place of Sexual Judgment for Field Theoretic Inquiries.” Pp. 171- 188 in Sexual Fields: Toward a Sociology of Collective Sexual Life, edited by Adam Isaiah Green. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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.

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

 

Classical theory

2021 “Critical Theory, The Imagination, and the Critique of Judgment:  Horkheimer’s Vision Reconsidered.”  Current Perspectives in Social Theory 37: 59-87.

2021 “On the Other Side of Interests.” Pp. 671-692 in Handbook of Classical Sociological Theory, edited by Seth Abrutyn and Omar Lizardo. New York: Springer.

2017 “The Human Condition and the Theory of Action.”  Pp. 49 – 74 in The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt, edited by Peter Baehr.  London:  Anthem Press.

2017 “The Birth of The True, The Good, and The Beautiful: Toward an Investigation of the Structures of Social Thought.” Current Perspectives in Social Theory 35: 3-56.

2016 “Simmel and Rickert on Aesthetics and Historical Explanation.” Pp. 113 – 148 in Theories of Action and Morality. Perspectives from Philosophy and Social Theory, edited by Mark Alzanuer and José Maria Torralba. Olms Verlag.

2015 “Peirce and Spencer-Brown on Probability, Chance and Lawfulness.” Cybernetics and Human Knowing 22: 9-33.

2015 (With Monica Lee.) “Social Structure.” Pp. 713–718 in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, edited by James D. Wright. Volume 22. Oxford: Elsevier.

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.

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

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

 

Methods


2018    Thinking Through StatisticsUniversity of Chicago Press.

2017    Thinking Through MethodsUniversity of Chicago Press.

Algebraic approaches (and subjective structures)

forthcoming     “Algebraic Structures and Social Processes.”  In Mathematics for Social Sciences and Arts - Algebraic Modeling, edited by Mahouton Norbert Hounkonnou, Dragana Martinovic, Melanija Mitrović and Philippa Pattison.  Berlin:  Springer Nature.

2015 (with James A. Wiley, Stephen Herschkorn and Jason Bond.) “A New Extension of the Binomial Error Model for Responses to Items of Varying Difficulty in Educational Testing and Attitude Surveys.” PLoS ONE 10(11): e0141981.  doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0141981

2015 (With Monica Lee.) “Coding, Counting, and Cultural Cartography.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology 3: 1-33

2014 “Spatial Processes and Galois/Concept Lattices.” Quality and Quantity 48: 961-981.

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

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

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

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.

 

Social networks

2019 (With Peter McMahan and Adam Slez:)  Local Network Regressions.”  Socius 5: 1–7.  https://doi.org/10.1177/2378023119845758.

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

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

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

 

Other

forthcoming    “Heuristics for Discovery.”  In Practicing Sociology: Tacit Knowledge for the Sociological Craft, edited by David Stark.  New York:  Columbia University Press.

forthcoming    (With Benjamin Rohr:)  “How (Not) to Control for Population Size in Ecological Analyses.”  Sociological Methods & Research.

2023 Cognitive Plausibility in Qualitative Research.  Sociological Methods & Research  52(2): 1048–1058

2021 (With Monica Lee, Amaç Herdağdelen, and Minsu Park:) “Measuring Mohr Social Capital.”  Poetics  88: 101596.

2019  “See it with Figures.”  Contemporary Sociology. 

2018  “Heuristics for Discovery.”  Sociologica 12:45-52.

2018 (With Monica Lee:) “Doorway to the Dharma of Duality.”  Poetics 68: 18-30.

2018 (With Monica Lee:) “A Formal Approach to Meaning.”  Poetics 68: 10-17.

2016 Comment on Guo, Li, Wang, Cai and Duncan.  SocArXiv osf.io/99jsp.

2016 (With Adam Slez and Chad Borkhenhagen:) “Some Provisional Techniques for Quantifying the Degree of Field Effect in Social Data.” Socius 2: 1 –18.

 

Culture

Culture and cognition

2024 (With Maurice Bokanga and Alessandra Lembo:) “Through a Scanner Darkly:  Machine Sentience and the Language Virus.”  Journal of Social Computing. 

2022 (With Alessandra Lembo:)  The Structure of Cultural Experience.”  Poetics 92: 101562.

2015 (With Ben Merriman.) “A Social Aesthetics as a General Cultural Sociology?” Pp. 132- 148 in International Handbook of Sociology of Sociology of Art and Culture, edited by Laurie Hanquinet and Mike Savage. London: Routledge.

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

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

 

Webs and systems

2020 (With Jan Fuhse, Oscar Stuhler, and Jan Riebling:) “Relating Social and Symbolic Relations in Quantitative Text Analysis. A Study of Parliamentary Discourse in the Weimar Republic.”  Poetics 78: 101463.

2018 (With Monica Lee:) “Doorway to the Dharma of Duality.”  Poetics 68: 18-30.

2018 (With Monica Lee:) “A Formal Approach to Meaning.”  Poetics 68: 10-17.

2016 (with Tod van Gunten and Misha Teplitskiy:) “Consensus, Polarization and Alignment in the Economics Profession.” Sociological Science 3: DOI 10.15195/v3.a45.

2015 (With Monica Lee:) “Surfeit and Surface.” Big Data and Society 2(2), DOI: 10.1177/2053951715604334

2015 (With Monica Lee.) “Response to Biernacki, Reed, and Spillman.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology 3: 380-415.

2015 (With Monica Lee.) “Coding, Counting, and Cultural Cartography.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology 3: 1-33

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

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

 

Social Networks and Social Structure

2009    Social StructuresPrinceton University Press.

forthcoming    (With Jan Overgoor and Bogdan State:)  Persistence and Change in Structural Signatures of Tie Formation Over Time.”  Social Networks. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2021.12.001

forthcoming    (With Maurice Bokanga and Benjamin Rohr:)  “Economic Networks and Political Culture.”  Handbook of Social Network Analysis and Culture, edited by Nick Crossley and Paul Widdop.  Cheltenham: Elgar.

2021  (With Hyunku Kwon:)  “Commentary, Festinger, Schachter, and Back’s Social Pressures in Informal Groups” in Personal Networks:  Classic Readings and New Directions in Egocentric Analysis, edited by Mario L. Small, Brea L. Perry, Bernice Pescosolido, and Edward B. Smith.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.

2020 (With Jim Murphy:)  “Networks, Status, and Inequality.”  Pp. 98-115 in Oxford Handbook of Social Networks, edited by Ryan Light and James Moody.

2020 Comment on Geodesic Cycle Length Distributions in Delusional and Other Social Networks.” Journal of Social Structure 21(1): 77-93.

2017  The Structure of Node and Edge Generation in a Delusional Social Network.”  Journal of Social Structure 18(5):  DOI: 10.21307/joss-2018-005.

2015 (With Jacob Habinek and Benjamin Zablocki.) “Double-Embeddedness: Spatial and Relational Contexts of Tie Persistence and Re-Formation.” Social Networks 42: 27–41

2015 (With Monica Lee.) “Social Structure.” Pp. 713–718 in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, edited by James D. Wright. Volume 22. Oxford: Elsevier.

2012 (With Tod van Gunten and Benjamin D. Zablocki). “Charisma, Status and Gender in Groups with and without Gurus.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 51:20-41.

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.

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

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

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. 

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

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

 

Politics and Ideology

forthcoming    (With Maurice Bokanga and Benjamin Rohr:)  “Economic Networks and Political Culture.”  Handbook of Social Network Analysis and Culture, edited by Nick Crossley and Paul Widdop.  Cheltenham: Elgar.

2023 The Ethico-Political Universe of Chat GPT.”  Journal of Social Computing 4(1): 1-11.

2023 (With Hyunku Kwon:)  “Subjective Political Polarization.”  Sociological Science 10: 903-929.

2020 (With Jan Fuhse, Oscar Stuhler, and Jan Riebling:) “Relating Social and Symbolic Relations in Quantitative Text Analysis. A Study of Parliamentary Discourse in the Weimar Republic.”  Poetics 78: 101463.

2020 The Authoritarian Personality.”  In Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by George Ritzer and Chris Rojek.

2020 (With Nick Judd:) “Tasks for the Political Sociology of the Next Ten Years.”  Pp. 243-266 in The New Handbook of Political Sociology, edited by Thomas Janoski, Cedric De Leon, Joya Misra, and Isaac William Martin.  New York:  Cambridge.

2018  (With Rick Moore and Jim Murphy:)  “Protest Movements and Citizen Discontent: Occupy Wall Street and The Tea Party.”  Sociological Forum 33: 575-595.

2016 (with Tod van Gunten and Misha Teplitskiy:) “Consensus, Polarization and Alignment in the Economics Profession.” Sociological Science 3: DOI 10.15195/v3.a45.

2015 “What is Ideology?” Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas 77: 9-31

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

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

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

 

War and History

2020 (With Jan Fuhse, Oscar Stuhler, and Jan Riebling:) “Relating Social and Symbolic Relations in Quantitative Text Analysis. A Study of Parliamentary Discourse in the Weimar Republic.”  Poetics 78: 101463.

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

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

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

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

 

Sex and Gender

Power and gender

2012 (With Tod van Gunten and Benjamin D. Zablocki). “Charisma, Status and Gender in Groups with and without Gurus.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 51:20-41.

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

 

Sexual revolutions and fields

2014 “The Crucial Place of Sexual Judgment for Field Theoretic Inquiries.” Pp. 171- 188 in Sexual Fields: Toward a Sociology of Collective Sexual Life, edited by Adam Isaiah Green. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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.

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

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

 

Social Psychology/Interaction

2023 (With Alessandra Lembo and Xiangyu Ma:)  “New Directions in the Sociology of Morality.”  Pp. 3–24 in Handbook of the Sociology of Morality, Volume 2, edited by Steven Hitlin, Aliza Luft, and  Shai M. Dromi.  Cham:  Springer.

2022 (With Alessandra Lembo:)  “Response to Vaisey.”  Sociological Forum.

2012 (With Tod van Gunten and Benjamin D. Zablocki). “Charisma, Status and Gender in Groups with and without Gurus.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 51:20-41.

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

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 (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.