Harrison White
Affiliations
- Faculty Fellow, Department of Sociology
- Member, Working Paper Editorial Board
- Organizer, Meaning: Language and Socio-cultural Processes
Research
One line of his current research melds economic sociology with mathematical modeling (Markets from Networks, Princeton University Press 2002); another meshes social network with discourse analyses. The theoretical foundation of both was laid in Identity and Control, published in 1992. He teaches courses also in the sociology of art. White collaborates with an INRA interdisciplinary team in field studies of how the Languedoc-Rousillon wine sector has been evolving.
White has also taught at five other universities (Arizona (Tucson), Carnegie-Mellon, Chicago, Edinburgh and Harvard) and has worked in several applied research organizations and business schools. He earned doctorates at MIT (theoretical physics) and Princeton (sociology) and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Selected Work
- Markets from Networks: Socioeconomic Models of Production Princeton Univ Press, 2002
- "Upstream or Down? Decisions, Agency, and Structure" In E. Lazega and O. Favereau, eds., Conventions and Structures in Economic Organization: Markets, Networks, and Hierarchies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2002
- "Markets and Firms in Network Dynamics" [Translation into Russian]— chapter in Symposium on Economic Sociology, V. Radaev, ed., Moscow: School of Economic Sociology, 2002
- "Markets and Firms"; Chapter 6 in Mauro Guillen, Randall Collins, Paula England, and Marshall Meyer, eds. New Directions in Economic Sociology. New York: Russell Sage, 2002
See Also
- Research grant: Cooperation, Conflict and Network Change: A Study of Citicorp Work Groups
- Working papers by Harrison White
