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'''John Levi Martin''' (born 1964) is an American ] and the Florence Borchert Bartling Professor of Sociology at the ]. He is the author of two books ''Social Structures'', ''The Explanation of Social Action,'' both of which won the Theory Prize for Outstanding Book from the ASA's Theory Section,<ref>http://www.asatheory.org/theory-prize.html</ref> and DAMN (Dyadic Analysis of Multiple Networks) and ELLA (Every-gal-and-guy’s Latent Lattice Analyser). '''John Levi Martin''' (born 1964) is an American ] and the Florence Borchert Bartling Professor of Sociology at the ]. He is the author of five books: ''Thinking Through Statistics'', ''Thinking Through Methods'', ''Thinking Through Theory'', ''Social Structures'', ''The Explanation of Social Action,'' the latter two of which have both won the Theory Prize for Outstanding Book from the ASA's Theory Section.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.asatheory.org/theory-prize.html|title=Theory Prize}}</ref> He has also written data analysis programs such as DAMN (Dyadic Analysis of Multiple Networks) and ELLA (Every-gal-and-guy’s Latent Lattice Analyser).


== Early life and education == == Early life and education ==
Martin studied at ] and received a BA in sociology and English in 1987. While there he was influenced by notable political sociologist Herbert Hyman who passed away in 1985, and Martin received the Herbert Hyman prize for undergraduate sociology for his thesis: ''The Epistemology of Fundamentalis''m. He then attended the University of California - Berkeley, where he received a MA in 1990 and a PhD in 1997. His dissertation committee was ] (Chair), ], James Wiley, John Wilmoth. It was titled ''Power Structure and Belief Structure in Forty American Communes'', and used the Urban Commune Data Set <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://home.uchicago.edu/~jlmartin/UCDS/UCDS/publications/publications.htm|title=LIST OF PUBLICATIONS USING THE URBAN COMMUNES DATA SET|website=home.uchicago.edu|access-date=2016-03-09}}</ref>. Martin studied at ] and received a BA in sociology and English in 1987. While there he was influenced by notable political sociologist ] who died in 1985, and Martin received the Herbert Hyman prize for undergraduate sociology for his thesis: ''The Epistemology of Fundamentalis''m. He then attended the University of California - Berkeley, where he received a MA in 1990 and a PhD in 1997. His dissertation committee was ] (Chair), ], James Wiley, John Wilmoth. It was titled ''Power Structure and Belief Structure in Forty American Communes'', and used the Urban Commune Data Set.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://home.uchicago.edu/~jlmartin/UCDS/UCDS/publications/publications.htm|title=LIST OF PUBLICATIONS USING THE URBAN COMMUNES DATA SET|website=home.uchicago.edu|access-date=2016-03-09}}</ref>


== Areas of activity == == Areas of activity ==
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John Levi Martin's current main areas of interest are field theory, social structures, and party formation. His previous work has been on classical theory, historical changes in sexual decision making and the economy, the shaping of belief systems, the use of racism as a valid conceptual category in American sociology, the relationship between interpersonal power and attributions of sexiness, methods for the analysis of qualitative data, political psychology, and the division of labor in ]. John Levi Martin's current main areas of interest are field theory, social structures, and party formation. His previous work has been on classical theory, historical changes in sexual decision making and the economy, the shaping of belief systems, the use of race as a conceptual category in American sociology, the relationship between interpersonal power and attributions of sexiness, methods for the analysis of qualitative data, political psychology, and the division of labor in ].


==Selected works== ==Selected works==
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*2011: ''The Explanation of Social Action''. - Oxford University Press. *2011: ''The Explanation of Social Action''. - Oxford University Press.
*2018: ''Thinking Through Statistics''. - University of Chicago Press.


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John Levi Martin
BornJune 25, 1964
New York City, New York
Alma materWesleyan University (B.A.)
University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.)
Known forcultural sociology, cognitive sociology, political sociology, sociological theory
AwardsASA Theory Prize for Outstanding Book 2010, 2012
Scientific career
FieldsSociology
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
Doctoral advisorAnn Swidler
Other academic advisorsMichael Hout

John Levi Martin (born 1964) is an American sociologist and the Florence Borchert Bartling Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of five books: Thinking Through Statistics, Thinking Through Methods, Thinking Through Theory, Social Structures, The Explanation of Social Action, the latter two of which have both won the Theory Prize for Outstanding Book from the ASA's Theory Section. He has also written data analysis programs such as DAMN (Dyadic Analysis of Multiple Networks) and ELLA (Every-gal-and-guy’s Latent Lattice Analyser).

Early life and education

Martin studied at Wesleyan University and received a BA in sociology and English in 1987. While there he was influenced by notable political sociologist Herbert Hyman who died in 1985, and Martin received the Herbert Hyman prize for undergraduate sociology for his thesis: The Epistemology of Fundamentalism. He then attended the University of California - Berkeley, where he received a MA in 1990 and a PhD in 1997. His dissertation committee was Ann Swidler (Chair), Mike Hout, James Wiley, John Wilmoth. It was titled Power Structure and Belief Structure in Forty American Communes, and used the Urban Commune Data Set.

Areas of activity

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John Levi Martin's current main areas of interest are field theory, social structures, and party formation. His previous work has been on classical theory, historical changes in sexual decision making and the economy, the shaping of belief systems, the use of race as a conceptual category in American sociology, the relationship between interpersonal power and attributions of sexiness, methods for the analysis of qualitative data, political psychology, and the division of labor in Busytown.

Selected works

  • 1998: "Structures of Power in Naturally Occurring Communities". - Social Networks. - 20. - pp. 197–225.
  • 1999: "Entropic Measures of Belief System Constraint". - Social Science Research. - 28. - pp. 111–134.
  • 1999: (with James Wiley) - "Algebraic Representations of Beliefs and Attitudes: Partial Order Models for Item Responses". - Sociological Methodology. 29. - pp. 113–146.
  • 1999: "A General Permutation-Based QAP Analysis for Dyadic Data from Multiple Groups". - Connections. - 22. - pp. 50–60.
  • 2002: "Some Algebraic Structures for Diffusion in Social Networks". - Journal of Mathematical Sociology. 26. - pp. 123–146.
  • 2003: "What is Field Theory?". - American Journal of Sociology. 109. - pp. 1–49.
  • 2009: Social Structures. - Princeton University Press.
  • 2011: The Explanation of Social Action. - Oxford University Press.
  • 2018: Thinking Through Statistics. - University of Chicago Press.

References

  1. "Theory Prize".
  2. "LIST OF PUBLICATIONS USING THE URBAN COMMUNES DATA SET". home.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-09.


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