Professor
Mark Granovetter
Stanford University
Sociologist; Educator
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Sociology, Demography, and Geography
Elected
2008
Joan Butler Ford Professor of Sociology. Known for papers on the connective power of weak ties in social networks. A founder of modern economic sociology, through a series of innovative articles beginning in the 1980's. Established a sustained and fruitful dialog with economics. Author of Getting a Job (1974, 1995), and of a series of papers from 1978 to 1988 on "threshold models" of collective behavior.
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