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Miller McPherson, Professor
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Miller McPherson
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Short Description of Research
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348B Soc/Psych |
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919-660-5787 |
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Organizations,
Associations,
Social Networks,
Quantitative Methodology
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| Most of my research focuses on voluntary groups and the social networks that draw people into and out of them. But my research agenda is more ambitious than that. I think that the general ecological theory of affiliation that I have developed shows how any social entity that spreads through networks behaves. We’ve already applied the theory to occupations, musical tastes, religious congregations, voluntary organizations and other social groups. Now I am working on applying it to fuzzier cultural entities like attitudes, beliefs and social identities. I think that the theory will explain some important things about the behavior of virtually any social characteristic.
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Selected Publications/Recent
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- Lynn Smith-Lovin and Matthew Brashears, "Social Distance in America: Heterogeneity and Homophily in Sex, Age, Education and Religion",
Re-submitted to Social Forces. (January 2009).
- Lynn Smith-Lovin and Matthew Brashears, "the ties that bind are fraying.",
Contexts, vol. 7 no. 3 (2008),
pp. 32-6.
- Jeff Smith and Lynn Smith-lovin, "Social Isolation",
in Encyclopedia of Human Relationships, edited by Harry Reis and Susan Sprecher (2008).
- "A Dynamic Baseline Model of Ego Networks.",
American Behavioral Scientist (2008).
- Lynn Smith-Lovin and Matthew Brashears, Of Models and Marginals: Using Survey Data to Study Social Networks,
American Sociological Review (Forthcoming 2009).
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Course Descriptions
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Sociology
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