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Going Breiger on White: Harrison C. White’s identity in Social Network Science Cover

Going Breiger on White: Harrison C. White’s identity in Social Network Science

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|May 2025

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Figure 1:

Duality of papers (numbers) and references (letters)
Duality of papers (numbers) and references (letters)

Figure 2:

Subdomains of SNS. Citation probabilities for time slices in which a given reference was not yet published are non-zero but small.
Subdomains of SNS. Citation probabilities for time slices in which a given reference was not yet published are non-zero but small.

Figure 3:

Network of citing papers coupled by cited references.
Network of citing papers coupled by cited references.

Figure 4:

Network of cited references coupled by citing papers
Network of cited references coupled by citing papers

Papers by HCW in the SNS dataset_

PaperSubdomain
WHITE_1976_A_730Methods & models
White, H. C., Boorman, S. A., & Breiger, R. L. (1976). Social structure from multiple networks. I. Blockmodels of roles and positions. American Journal of Sociology, 81(4), 730–780.
BOORMAN_1976_A_1384Methods & models
Boorman, S. A., & White, H. C. (1976). Social structure from multiple networks. II. Role structures. American Journal of Sociology, 81(6), 1384–1446.
WHITE_1981_A_517Organizations & innovation
White, H. C. (1981). Where do markets come from? American Journal of Sociology, 87(3), 517–547.
WHITE_1995_J_58Organizations & innovation
White, H. C. (1995). Social networks can resolve actor paradoxes in economics and in psychology. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 151(1), 58–74.
WHITE_1995_S_1035Organizations & innovation
White, H. C. (1995). Network switchings and Bayesian forks: Reconstructing the social and behavioral sciences. Social Research, 62(4), 1035–1063.
WHITE_1997_S_53Organizations & innovation
White, H. C. (1997). Can mathematics be social? Flexible representations for interaction process and its sociocultural constructions. Sociological Forum, 12(1), 53–71.
MISCHE_1998_S_695Organizations & innovation
Mische, A. & White, H. C. (1998). Between conversation and situation: Public switching dynamics across network domains. Social Research, 65(3), 695–724.
WHITE_2000_P_117Organizations & innovation
White, H. C. (2000). Modeling discourse in and around markets. Poetics, 27(2–3), 117–135.
WHITE_2007_T_181Organizations & innovation
White, H. C., Godart, F., & Corona, V. P. (2007). Mobilizing identities: Uncertainty and control in strategy. Theory Culture & Society, 24(7–8), 181–202.
MOHR_2008_T_485Organizations & innovation
Mohr, J. W. & White, H. C. (2008). How to model an institution. Theory and Society, 37, 485–512.
GODART_2010_P_567Social capital
Godart, F. C. & White, H. C. (2010). Switchings under uncertainty: The coming and becoming of meanings. Poetics, 38(6), 567–586.
FONTDEVI_2011_S_178Social capital
Fontdevila, J., Opazo, M. P., & White, H. C. (2011). Order at the edge of chaos: Meanings from netdom switchings across functional systems. Sociological Theory, 29(3), 178–198.

Subdomains of SNS_ Labels were derived from inspecting titles, abstracts, and author keywords_ The size refers to the number of papers_ Years are those in which the first 25%, 50%, and 75% of all papers in the subdomain were published_

SubdomainSizeQuartile yearsColor
Social support4,1241995 / 2003 / 2009
Methods & models1,8222001 / 2007 / 2010
Organizations & innovation5,2932001 / 2007 / 2010
Social capital5,2802002 /2008 / 2010
Complex networks8,3542007 / 2009 / 2011

Highly-cited references by HCW in the SNS dataset_

ReferenceNumber of citations
WHITE_1976_A_730256
White, H. C., Boorman, S. A., & Breiger, R. L. (1976). Social structure from multiple networks. I. Blockmodels of roles and positions. American Journal of Sociology, 81(4), 730–780.
LORRAIN_1971_J_49188
Lorrain, F. & White, H. C. (1971). Structural equivalence of individuals in social networks. Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 1(1), 49–80.
WHITE_1992_IDENTITY169
White, H. C. (1992). Identity and Control: A Structural Theory of Social Action. Princeton University Press.
White, H. C. (2008). Identity and Control: How Social Formations Emerge. 2nd edition. Princeton University Press.
WHITE_1981_A_51780
White, H. C. (1981). Where do markets come from? American Journal of Sociology, 87(3), 517–547.
WHITE_1970_CHAINS56
White, H. C. (1970). Chains of Opportunity: System Models of Mobility in Organizations. Harvard University Press.
BOORMAN_1976_A_138455
Boorman, S. A. & White, H. C. (1976). Social structure from multiple networks. II. Role structures. American Journal of Sociology, 81(6), 1384–1446.
WHITE_2002_MARKETS52
White, H. C. (2002). Markets from Networks: Socioeconomic Models of Production. Princeton University Press.
WHITE_1963_ANATOMY30
White, H. C. (1963). An Anatomy of Kinship: Mathematical Models for Structures of Cumulated Roles. Englewood Cliffs.
MISCHE_1998_S_69528
Mische, A. & White, H. C. (1998). Between conversation and situation: Public switching dynamics across network domains. Social Research, 65(3), 695–724.
WHITE_1970_S_25924
White, H. C. (1970). Search parameters for the small world problem. Social Forces, 49(2), 259–264.
WHITE_1995_S_103518
White, H. C. (1995). Network switchings and Bayesian forks: Reconstructing the social and behavioral sciences. Social Research, 62(4), 1035–1063.
HEIL_1976_B_2617
Heil, G. H. & White, H. C. (1976). An algorithm for finding simultaneous homomorphic correspondences between graphs and their image graphs. Behavioral Science, 21(1), 26–35.
WHITE_1961_A_18517
White, H. C. (1961). Management conflict and sociometric structure. American Journal of Sociology, 67(2), 185–199.
WHITE_1993_CAREERS15
White, H. C. (1993). Careers and Creativity: Social Forces in the Arts. Routledge.
WHITE_1965_CANVASES15
White, H. C. & White, C. A. (1965). Canvases and Careers: Institutional Change in the French Painting World. Wiley.
White, H. C. & White, C. A. (1993). Canvases and Careers: Institutional Change in the French Painting World. New edition. University of Chicago Press.
WHITE_1988_SOCIAL_22613
White, H. C. (1988). Varieties of markets. In: B. Wellman & S. D. Berkowitz. Social Structures. A Network Approach (p. 226–260). Cambridge University Press.

Probabilities to get cited in subdomains_

SubdomainPPHCWPpublic
Social support0.180.02 (0.10)0.02 (0.11)
Methods & models0.060.26 (4.09)0.17 (2.68)
Organizations & innovation0.260.50 (1.90)0.52 (1.96)
Social capital0.260.15 (0.59)0.19 (0.73)
Complex networks0.240.08 (0.32)0.11 (0.46)

Probabilities to cite in subdomains

SubdomainPPHCWPpublic
Social support0.180.000.08 (0.43)
Methods & models0.060.22 (3.50)0.07 (1.10)
Organizations & innovation0.260.58 (2.21)0.41 (1.55)
Social capital0.260.20 (0.79)0.30 (1.16)
Complex networks0.240.000.15 (0.62)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/connections-2019.061 | Journal eISSN: 2816-4245 | Journal ISSN: 0226-1766
Language: English
Page range: 49 - 58
Published on: May 30, 2025
Published by: International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA)
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 times per year

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