Fabrice FERNANDEZ

Quelques articles de Mark Granovetter sont disponible en ligne. Mark Granovetter  est professeur au Département de Sociologie de Stanford University. Il a été nommé en Californie après avoir occupé des fonctions d’enseignement et de recherche à Northwestern (1992-1995), State University of New York (1977-1992), Harvard University (1973-1977). Les recherches de Mark Granovetter se situent aux confluents de la sociologie et de l’économie. Il a proposé l’une des théories les plus remarquées de la sociologie moderne connue sous le nom de The strength of weak ties, il a ensuite développé le concept d’embeddedness. Ses nombreuses publications font référence, parmi elles, The Strength of Weak Ties (1973), Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness (1985), Coase Revisited: Business Groups in the Modern Economy (1995), Getting a Job: A Study of Contacts and Careers (2ème édition, 1995), The Sociology of Economic Life (avec Richard Swedberg, 2ème édition, 2001).

Mark Granovetter est, depuis 1986, l’éditeur de la collection Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences de Cambridge University Press. Il participe, ou a participé, aux comités éditoriaux de nombreuses revues telles que Journal of Consumer Culture, American Sociological Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Rationality and Society. Il est membre de diverses associations : American Sociological Association, American Economic Association, de l’International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy.

Selected Publications

1973. “The Strength of Weak Ties.” American Journal of Sociology, 78 (May): 1360-1380.

1978. “Threshold Models of Collective Behavior.” American Journal of Sociology, 83 (May): 1420-1443.

1979  “The Idea of ‘Advancement’ in Theories of Social Evolution and Development.”  American Journal of Sociology, 85 (November):489-515.

1985. “Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness.” American Journal of Sociology, 91(November): 481-510.

1988. “Inequality and Labor Processes” (With Charles Tilly). In Neil Smelser, ed., Handbook of Sociology, pp. 175-221. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.

1988 “Threshold Models of Diversity: Chinese Restaurants, Residential Segregation and the Spiral of Silence.” (With Roland Soong). In Clifford Clogg, ed., Sociological Methodology , pp. 69-104.

1990 “The Myth of Social Network Analysis as a Special Method in the Social Sciences”.  In Connections 13(2): 13-16.

1995. “Coase Revisited: Business Groups in the Modern Economy”. Industrial and Corporate Change 4(1): 93-130.

1995. Getting a Job: A Study of Contacts and Careers, 2nd Edition (with a new Preface and a new chapter updating research and theory since the 1974 edition). University of Chicago Press (paperback).

1998. “The Making of an Industry: Electricity in the United States”. With Patrick McGuire. Pp. 147-173, in Michel Callon, editor, The Laws of The Markets, Oxford: Blackwell.

2000. “Social Networks in Silicon Valley”. With Emilio Castilla, Hokyu Hwang and Ellen Granovetter. Pp. 218-247 in Chong-Moon Lee, William F. Miller, Marguerite Gong Hancock, and Henry S. Rowen, editors, The Silicon Valley Edge. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

2001. The Sociology of Economic Life, 2nd edition, edited with Richard Swedberg. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

2002. “A Theoretical Agenda for Economic Sociology”. Pp. 35-59 in Mauro Guillen, Randall Collins, Paula England and Marshall Meyer, editors. The New Economic Sociology: Developments in an Emerging Field. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

2003. “Ignorance, Knowledge and Outcomes in a Small World”. Science 301 (8 August, 2003):  773-774. (Perspective on Dodds, Muhammad and Watts’ “An Experimental Study of Search in Global Social Networks”, Science,  same issue. )

2005. “Business Groups and Social Organization”. Pp. 429-450 in Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg, editors, Handbook of Economic Sociology, Second Edition. Princeton University Press and Russell Sage Foundation.

2005. “The Impact of Social Structure on Economic Outcomes”. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 19(1 ) (Winter): 33-50.

2005. “Electric Charges: The Social Construction of Rate Systems”. With Valery Yakubovich and Patrick McGuire. Theory and Society 34 (5-6): 579-612.

 2006. “The Social Construction of Corruption”. Forthcoming in Richard Swedberg and Victor Nee, The Norms, Beliefs and Institutions of Capitalism.