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John Levi Martin is an American sociologist. He is currently full professor of sociology at theUniversity of California, Berkeley, and was previously associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison from 2003 through 2006.
He is the author of DAMN (Dyadic Analysis of Multiple Networks) and ELLA (Every-gal-and-guy’s Latent Lattice Analyser). He currently resides in Berkeley with his wife and two kids.
Areas of activity
John Levi Martin is an intellectual nomad in the vast universe of sociological inquiry. These days, his main areas of interest are: field theory, social structures and party formation. He has previously written 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
20:197-225.
- (1999)“Entropic Measures of Belief System Constraint.” Social Science Research
28:111-134.
- (1999) (With James Wiley:) “Algebraic Representations of Beliefs and Attitudes:
Partial Order Models for Item Responses.” Sociological Methodology 29:113- 146.
- (1999)“A General Permutation-Based QAP Analysis for Dyadic Data from Multiple
Groups.” Connections 22: 50-60.
- (2002)“Some Algebraic Structures for Diffusion in Social Networks.” Journal of
Mathematical Sociology 26: 123-146.
- (2003)“What is Field Theory?” American Journal of Sociology 109: 1-49
- forthcoming “The Objective and Subjective Rationalization of War.” Theory and Society.
- forthcoming “Is Power Sexy?” American Journal of Sociology.