Structural Holes est l'une des contri-butions les plus originales de la sociologie structurale a
la sociologie g6nerale. Cet ouvrage, pr6sente l'une des premieres theories de l'action …

PORTIONS of the research in chapter 4 were funded by the National Science Foundation
and the Rutgers Office of Sponsored Research Projects; portions of the research in chapter …

A player brings at least three kinds of capital to the competitive arena. Other distinctions can
be made, but three are sufficient here. First, the player has financial capital: cash in hand …

“Social closure” is one of the most basic terms and concepts in sociology. Basically, closure
refers to processes of drawing boundaries, constructing identities, and building communities …

One of the main scientific enterprises in the last decades was and is the search for general
principles of complex systems, ie, laws or mathematical regularities that are valid for such …

The concepts of power and status as currently used are not sufficiently distinct from each
other to allow such a simple formulation of the problem. Some vague notion of “position” …

Peter Blau is perhaps our most productive American sociologist. He has a sharp sense for
where the intellectual action is. In the 1950s, he turned out The Dynamics of Bureaucracy …

SCHOLARS ARE KNOWN to posterity by their writings. Charles Horton Cooley was largely
so known even to his contemporaries. Rarely can a modern American, performing …

THIS BOOK is a slightly lengthened version of a series of lectures I gave in June 1995 at the
Summer School in Economic Theory at the Institute for Advanced Studies of Hebrew …