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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",
Submitted to Social Forces. (2007).
- Networks and Niches in an Ecology of Affiliation, Book manuscript in preparation, describing results of Ten Towns Study and new data from the 2004 General Social Survey modules on volunary association and social networks. (Book manuscript in development).
- Jeff Smith and Lynn Smith-lovin, "Social Isolation",
in Encyclopedia of Human Relationships, edited by Harry Reis and Susan Sprecher (Forthcoming, 2008).
- "A Dynamic Baseline Model of Ego Networks.",
American Behavioral Scientist (Forthcoming, 2008).
- Lynn Smith-Lovin and Matthew Brashears, "Loosening the Ties That Bind.",
Contexts (Forthcoming, Spring 2008).
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Course Descriptions
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Sociology
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