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PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Edward Otto Laumann is an American sociologist. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. Laumann earned his Ph.D. in the Harvard Department of Social Relations in 1964, where he worked with George Homans, Talcott Parsons, and Harrison White. He served as Dean of the social sciences and Provost at Chicago. He is best known for his work on social stratification, urban sociology, organizational sociology, health and aging, and is widely recognized as a pioneer in the areas of social network analysis and the sociology of sexuality. In 2013, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Sexual dysfunction in the United States: prevalence and predictors. (1999) (5052)
A study of sexuality and health among older adults in the United States. (2007) (1879)
Sexual problems among women and men aged 40–80 y: prevalence and correlates identified in the Global Study of Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors (2005) (1204)
Definitions/epidemiology/risk factors for sexual dysfunction. (2010) (819)
The Social Connectedness of Older Adults: A National Profile (2008) (769)
The Organizational State: Social Choice in National Policy Domains (1987) (668)
Racial/ethnic group differences in the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases in the United States: a network explanation. (1999) (640)
Epidemiology/risk factors of sexual dysfunction. (2004) (600)
Sexual behavior and sexual dysfunctions after age 40: the global study of sexual attitudes and behaviors. (2004) (544)
A Cross-National Study of Subjective Sexual Well-Being Among Older Women and Men: Findings From the Global Study of Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors (2006) (528)
Community Structure as Interorganizational Linkages (1978) (514)
A PARADIGM FOR SOCIAL CAPITAL (1998) (507)
Bonds of Pluralism: The Form and Substance of Urban Social Networks. (1974) (427)
Elder mistreatment in the United States: prevalence estimates from a nationally representative study. (2008) (388)
Networks of Collective Action: A Perspective on Community Influence Systems (1976) (385)
Definitions of Sexual Dysfunctions in Women and Men: A Consensus Statement From the Fourth International Consultation on Sexual Medicine 2015. (2016) (349)
The Hollow Core: Private Interests in National Policy Making (1993) (337)
Help‐seeking behaviour for sexual problems: the Global Study of Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors (2005) (329)
Beyond Rational Choice : The Social Dynamics of How People Seek Help ' (2008) (328)
Chicago Lawyers: The Social Structure of the Bar. (1982) (321)
Incidence and Prevalence of Sexual Dysfunction in Women and Men: A Consensus Statement from the Fourth International Consultation on Sexual Medicine 2015. (2016) (294)
Population-based study of chlamydial infection in China: a hidden epidemic. (2003) (278)
Circumcision in the United States. Prevalence, prophylactic effects, and sexual practice. (1997) (276)
Sexual behaviour and dysfunction and help‐seeking patterns in adults aged 40–80 years in the urban population of Asian countries (2005) (270)
Social Networks in the NSHAP Study: rationale, measurement, and preliminary findings. (2009) (260)
Sexual dysfunction among older adults: prevalence and risk factors from a nationally representative U.S. probability sample of men and women 57-85 years of age. (2008) (255)
Prestige And Association In An Urban Community (1966) (246)
Intimate partner violence in China: national prevalence, risk factors and associated health problems. (2004) (236)
Risk Factors for Sexual Dysfunction Among Women and Men: A Consensus Statement From the Fourth International Consultation on Sexual Medicine 2015. (2016) (230)
Sexuality: measures of partnerships, practices, attitudes, and problems in the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Study. (2009) (220)
The Social Organization of Sexuality-Reply (1995) (214)
Prevalence and correlates of erectile dysfunction by race and ethnicity among men aged 40 or older in the United States: from the male attitudes regarding sexual health survey. (2007) (195)
A population-based survey of sexual activity, sexual problems and associated help-seeking behavior patterns in mature adults in the United States of America (2009) (195)
The health benefits of network growth: new evidence from a national survey of older adults. (2015) (178)
SEXUAL CONTACT BETWEEN CHILDREN AND ADULTS: A LIFE COURSE PERSPECTIVE* (1997) (177)
Urban Lawyers: The New Social Structure of the Bar (2005) (167)
Who Works with Whom? Interest Group Alliances and Opposition (1987) (151)
Drivers and barriers to seeking treatment for erectile dysfunction: a comparison of six countries (2004) (147)
The Sexual Organization of the City (2004) (144)
Community-Elite Influence Structures: Extension of a Network Approach (1977) (142)
Sexual behaviour, sexual dysfunctions and related help seeking patterns in middle-aged and elderly Europeans: the global study of sexual attitudes and behaviors (2006) (139)
The Relative Associational Contiguity of Occupations in an Urban Setting (1966) (135)
Synthesis of Scientific Disciplines in Pursuit of Health: The Interactive Biopsychosocial Model (2003) (130)
Social stratification: research and theory for the 1970s (1971) (127)
Elder Abuse and Mortality: The Role of Psychological and Social Wellbeing (2010) (127)
Sexual Behavior in China: Trends and Comparisons (2007) (127)
Network mixing and network influences most linked to HIV infection and risk behavior in the HIV epidemic among black men who have sex with men. (2013) (122)
NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE STUDY OF COMMUNITY ELITES (1973) (118)
Definitions, Classification, and Epidemiology of Sexual Dysfunction (2004) (108)
Prestige and association in an urban community : an analysis of an urban stratification system (1966) (104)
Empirical redefinition of comprehensive health and well-being in the older adults of the United States (2016) (100)
A population-based study of childhood sexual contact in China: prevalence and long-term consequences. (2008) (97)
The Analysis of Oppositional Structures in Political Elites: Identifying Collective Actors (1979) (95)
Sexual Practices and Sexual Satisfaction: A Population Based Study of Chinese Urban Adults (2007) (94)
A population-based study of body image concerns among urban Chinese adults. (2005) (94)
An Organizational Approach to State Policy Formation: A Comparative Study of Energy and Health Domains (1985) (92)
Subjective Social Distance and Urban Occupational Stratification (1965) (88)
Inner Circles or Hollow Cores? Elite Networks in National Policy Systems (1990) (88)
Circumcision in the United States: Prevalence, Prophylactic Effects, and Sexual Practice (1998) (87)
Social Network Effects on the Transmission of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (2002) (83)
Assessment of social network change in a national longitudinal survey. (2014) (81)
Sexual Activity, Sexual Disorders and Associated Help-Seeking Behavior among Mature Adults in Five Anglophone Countries from the Global Servey of Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors (GSSAB) (2006) (77)
A new HIV prevention network approach: sociometric peer change agent selection. (2015) (77)
Who You Know versus What You Know: The Uses of Government Experience for Washington Lobbyists (1989) (76)
Sexual Dysfunction in the United States (2011) (74)
A political history of the national sex survey of adults. (1994) (72)
Social Distance: A Network Approach (1967) (71)
The Logic of Social Hierarchies. (1971) (69)
The Hollow Core: Private Interests in National Policy Making. (1994) (69)
Subjective Social Distance, Occupational Stratification, and Forms of Status and Class Consciousness: A Cross-national Replication and Extension (1976) (69)
Social network properties and self-rated health in later life: comparisons from the Korean social life, health, and aging project and the national social life, health and aging project (2014) (69)
Network Position and Sexual Dysfunction: Implications of Partner Betweenness for Men1 (2011) (67)
Private sexual behavior, public opinion, and public health policy related to sexually transmitted diseases: a US-British comparison. (1998) (65)
The Scale of Justice: Observations on the Transformation of Urban Law Practice (2001) (61)
The changing character of lawyers' work: Chicago in 1975 and 1995 (1998) (57)
Masturbation in Urban China (2009) (56)
Microstructural analysis in interorganizational systems (1982) (55)
Religion and the Politics of Sexuality (2001) (54)
Monitoring AIDS and other rare population events: a network approach. (1993) (54)
Sexual Harassment of Women in Urban China (2006) (53)
The Social Structure of Religious and Ethnoreligious Groups in a Metropolitan Community (1969) (52)
Monitoring the AIDS epidemic in the United States: a network approach. (1989) (52)
Mathematical ideas in social structural analysis (1984) (51)
Prevalence of storage and voiding symptoms among men aged 40 years and older in a US population‐based study: results from the Male Attitudes Regarding Sexual Health study (2007) (48)
Specialization and Prestige in the Legal Profession: The Structure of Deference (1977) (46)
Status Inconsistency and Ethnoreligious Group Membership as Determinants of Social Participation and Political Attitudes (1971) (46)
Sexuality in Older Couples: Individual and Dyadic Characteristics (2017) (46)
The Theory of Sex Markets (2004) (45)
Structural Bridging Network Position is Associated with HIV Status in a Younger Black Men Who Have Sex with Men Epidemic (2014) (44)
The Bolger conference on PDE-5 inhibition and HIV risk: implications for health policy and prevention. (2006) (43)
Partner Violence and Sexual Jealousy in China (2009) (40)
Lower urinary tract symptoms are associated with depressive symptoms in white, black and Hispanic men in the United States. (2008) (39)
ORIGINAL RESEARCH—EPIDEMIOLOGY: Sexual Dysfunctions in Urban China: A Population-Based National Survey of Men and Women (2007) (38)
Classification of Older Adults Who Have Diabetes by Comorbid Conditions, United States, 2005–2006 (2012) (37)
Synthesis of Scientific Disciplines in Pursuit of Health: The Interactive Biopsychosocial Model (2003) (36)
HIV infection dynamics in rural Andhra Pradesh south India: A sexual-network analysis exploratory study (2007) (34)
The Prevalence of Sexual Problems in Women: How Valid Are Comparisons Across Studies? Commentary on Bancroft, Loftus, and Long's (2003) “Distress About Sex: A National Survey of Women in Heterosexual Relationships” (2003) (34)
Lawyers and the Structure of Influence in Washington (1988) (34)
If Parsons had Pajek: The Relevance of Midcentury Structural-Functionalism to Dynamic Network Analysis* (2016) (32)
Prevalence of women’s sexual problems in the USA (2005) (32)
HIV Health Center Affiliation Networks of Black Men Who Have Sex With Men: Disentangling Fragmented Patterns of HIV Prevention Service Utilization (2012) (32)
Sexual Expression over the Life Course (2012) (29)
Elder Self‐Neglect: A Discussion of a Social Typology (2008) (28)
Friends of Urban Men: An Assessment of Accuracy in Reporting Their Socioeconomic Attributes, Mutual Choice, and Attitude Agreement (1969) (27)
Sexual dysfunctions in urban china: a population-based national survey of men and women. (2007) (27)
A Causal Modelling Approach to the Study of a Community Elite's Influence Structure (1974) (26)
The Legal Profession: Client Interests, Professional Roles, and Social Hierarchies (1978) (25)
CHAPTER 18 - NETWORK ANALYSIS IN LARGE SOCIAL SYSTEMS: SOME THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS (1979) (25)
The constituencies of elite urban lawyers (1997) (23)
Social network and risk-taking behavior most associated with rapid HIV testing, circumcision, and preexposure prophylaxis acceptability among high-risk Indian men. (2012) (23)
The Effect of Structural Embeddedness on the Division of Household Labor: A Game-Theoretic Model Using a Network Approach (2003) (22)
Homeostasis Revisited: Patterns of Stability and Rebalancing in Older Adults' Social Lives. (2020) (22)
Unwanted Sexual Activity among Married Women in Urban China (2007) (21)
Criminal justice involvement history is associated with better HIV care continuum metrics among a population-based sample of young black MSM (2017) (20)
Candidate change agent identification among men at risk for HIV infection. (2012) (19)
Washington Lawyers - and Others: The Structure of Washington Representation (1985) (19)
Diabetes and sexual function in older adults: results of an international survey (2002) (18)
Personality measures in the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project. (2014) (17)
Private Representation in Washington: Surveying the Structure of Influence (1987) (16)
Multiplex Competition, Collaboration, and Funding Networks Among Health and Social Organizations: Toward Organization-based HIV Interventions for Young Men Who Have Sex With Men (2017) (16)
New Directions in the Study of Elites (1972) (15)
Meeting and Mating over the Life Course (2004) (14)
Socioeconomic disparity in healthcare-seeking behavior among Chinese Women with genitourinary symptoms. (2009) (14)
Organizations in Political Action: Representing Interests in National Policy Making (1991) (14)
A response to "developing standards in behavioral surveillance for HIV/STD prevention". (2002) (13)
Accounting for the Growth of Government (2000) (13)
General hygiene, sexual risk behaviour and HIV prevalence in truck drivers from Andhra Pradesh, South India: implications for prevention interventions (2009) (13)
The Changing Value of Social Capital in an Expanding Social System: Lawyers in the Chicago Bar, 1975 and 1995 (1999) (12)
Alternative explanations for negative findings in the community popular opinion leader multisite trial and recommendations for improvements of health interventions through social network analysis. (2011) (12)
Lawyers' Roles in Voluntary Associations: Declining Social Capital? (2001) (12)
The Social Organization of Women’s Sexuality (2002) (12)
Structure by Death: Social Network Replenishment in the Wake of Confidant Loss (2018) (11)
Diversity, Representation, and Leadership in an Urban Bar: A First Report on a Survey of the Chicago Bar (1976) (11)
Ethnic Congregation-Segregation, Assimilation, and Stratification (1964) (11)
A 45-year Retrospective on Doing Networks 1 (2006) (10)
Population-Based Study of Chlamydial Infection in China (2013) (10)
Organizational Construction or Individual ’ s Deed ? The Literati Tradition in the Journalistic Professionalization in China (2010) (10)
Worldwide prevalence and correlates (2005) (8)
Commitment, Jealousy, and the Quality of Life (2004) (8)
How to Get Valid Answers from Survey Questions: What We Learned from Asking about Sexual Behavior and the Measurement of Sexuality (2010) (8)
Evaluation of sexual networks as a cause for disparate HIV prevalence between blacks and whites: more questions than answers. (2011) (8)
Social Organization and Sexual Choices@@@The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States. (1995) (8)
NETWORK ENDORSEMENT AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION (2003) (7)
The increasingly organizational state (1988) (7)
A Digital Network Approach to Infer Sex Behavior in Emerging HIV Epidemics (2014) (6)
Social Connectedness at Older Ages and Implications for Health and Well-Being (2014) (6)
The Chicago Health and Social Life Survey Design (2004) (5)
Network data collection and its relevance for the analysis of STDs : The NHSLS and CHSLS (2000) (5)
From Professional Dominance to Organizational Dominance: Professionalism, Inequality, and Social Change Among Chicago Lawyers, 1975-1995 (2005) (5)
The Organization of lawyers' Work: Size, Intensity, and Co‐Practice of the Fields of Law (1979) (5)
The Social Organization of the Washington Establishment (1992) (5)
The Institutional Effect on Career Achievement of Technologists (1968) (4)
THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF SEXUALITY. AUTHORS' REPLY (1995) (4)
Violence and Sexuality (2004) (3)
The Structuring of Organizations and of Issues@@@The Organizational State: Social Choice in National Policy Domains. (1989) (3)
Predictors Sexual Dysfunction in the United States: Prevalence and (2010) (3)
Neighborhoods as Sex Markets (2004) (3)
1 – Introduction: A Theoretical and Methodological Overview (1976) (2)
Social Networks and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (2004) (2)
Sex, Samples, and Response Errors@@@The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States. (1995) (2)
The Cultural Economy of Urban Sexuality (2004) (2)
13 – Prospects and Conclusion (1976) (2)
5 – Locating the Top Community Influentials* (1976) (2)
The Persistence of Ethnoreligious Differences in the Worldly Success of Third and Later Generation Americans (1971) (2)
Advantages and Disadvantages of Neonatal Circumcision-Reply (1997) (2)
Sexual Problems Among Older Adults: Prevalences and Risk Factors from a Nationally Representative Probability Sample of Men and Women 57 to 85 Years of Age. (2008) (2)
Explaining Extramarital Sex: Evidence from Urban China (2005) (2)
ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF NEONATAL CIRCUMCISION. AUTHORS' REPLY (1997) (2)
The impact of aging on the reporting of erectile dysfunction in men aged 40–80 years: results of an international survey (2003) (2)
A framework for concatenated event analysis (1982) (1)
Are skin color and body mass index associated with social network structure? Findings from a male sex market study (2019) (1)
Knowledge of Sex and STD/AIDS in the General Adult Population of China (2006) (1)
SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION IN THE UNITED STATES. AUTHORS' REPLY (1999) (1)
Feedbackfrom our readers (1968) (1)
Genitourinary symptoms in urban China: a population-based study (2007) (1)
Changes of Personal Network Configuration Over the Life Course in the USA: A Latent Class Approach (2018) (1)
Open and Closed Structure (1967) (1)
Definitions / Epidemiology / Risk Factors for Sexual Dysfunctionjsm (2010) (1)
Prevalence, Prophylactic Effects, and Sexual Practice (2017) (1)
The Case of Mrs . Jones Revisited : Paternalism and Autonomy in Lawyer-Client Counseling (2015) (1)
Unintended Intimacies: Sex and Sociology@@@The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States. (1995) (1)
The Changing Character of the Lawyer-Client Relationship Evidence from Two Chicago Surveys (1)
What Causes Homosexuality ? (2008) (1)
Do most professorssupport the war? (1967) (1)
Response:Monitoring the U.S. AIDS Epidemic (1989) (1)
Assessing how Age, Sex, Race, and Education Affect the Relationships Between Cognitive Domains and Odor Identification. (2023) (0)
11 – The Resource Bases of Community Influence: A Strategy for Studying Their Distribution, Efficacy, and Convertibility* (1976) (0)
Membership/Subscription Form (2003) (0)
3 – The Internal Social Structural Differentiation of the Community* (1976) (0)
Book Review:Social Status in the City. Richard P. Coleman, Bernice L. Neugarten (1972) (0)
Social Networks (2021) (0)
New Directions in the Study of Elites: Part II. The Collectivity Structure of Community Influence (1972) (0)
CHAPTER-2 Definition Interest Groups : A Theoretical Construct (2015) (0)
Demographic Change in China: Trends in Chinese Sexual Behavior (2005) (0)
9 – Consensus and Cleavage: The Resolution of Issues* (1976) (0)
S OCIOLOGICAL T HEORIES OF AND R ESEARCH ON S EXUAL P ROBLEMS : A R EVIEW OF THE L ITERATURE (2011) (0)
Feedback from our readers (1972) (0)
INTERORGANIZATIO NAL LINKAGES (1978) (0)
Toward resolving the puzzle of the household division of labor: The role of trust in specifying neoclassical economic, power- dependency, and sex-role attitude explanations 1 (1999) (0)
149: Prevalence and Correlates of Sexual Problems Among Mature Men and Women in Western Non-European and Central and South American Regions: The Global Study of Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors (2004) (0)
Contents Vol. 57, 2011 (2011) (0)
Sexuality in Older Couples: Individual and Dyadic Characteristics (2015) (0)
2 – Introducing the Community: The Research Site for an Illustrative Case Study (1976) (0)
To Circumcise or Not (1997) (0)
Detroit Area Study 1966 (1971) (0)
Book Review:The Future of Inequality. S. M. Miller, Pamela A. Roby (1972) (0)
Interlocking and Radical Friendship Nets: A Formal Feature with Important Consequences (1971) (0)
12 – The Interface between Community and Elite* (1976) (0)
An Interpretation of Desire offers an invaluable account of developments in the study of sexuality, sexual behavior, and society in the second half of the twentieth century through the work of one man (2007) (0)
United States. From Professional Dominance to Organisational Dominance: Professionalism, Inequality, and Social Change Among Chicago Lawyers, 1975-1995 (2005) (0)
10 – Bringing Groups Back in: The Structure of Interrelations among Corporate Actors in the Community (1976) (0)
How Social Network Indexes Confound Health Research Findings: New Evidence from the NSHAP Study (2006) (0)
Sex, Intimacy, and Family Life in the United States (2020) (0)
Reconceptualizing health as wellness among older adults: Conditions, constellations, and social risk factors from a nationally representative probability sample of men and women 57 to 85 years of age (2008) (0)
4 – Value Orientations: Their Structure and Social Differentiation* (1976) (0)
Feedback from our readers (1968) (0)
PNAS Plus Significance Statements (2016) (0)
7 – Opening the Black Box: Relations among the Community Elite: A Method for Describing Their Structure* (1976) (0)
Prevalence and predictors of genitourinary symptoms in China: a population-based study. (2006) (0)
Tracking Egocentric Social Network Change Across Three Rounds of National Survey Data. (2021) (0)
Sexual Jealousy and Intimate Partner Violence in Urban China: A Population-Based Survey (2003) (0)
The Structure of Urban Activity Linkages. By George C. Hemmens. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Center for Urban and Regional Studies of the Institute for Research in Social Science, 1966. 54 pp. Illustrated. $2.00. Paper (1967) (0)
The Contexts of Social Mobility: Ideology and Theory. By Anselm L. Strauss. (Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co., 1971. Pp. xiv, 263. $8.50.) (1974) (0)
Book Review:Getting a Job: A Study of Contacts and Careers. Mark S. Granovetter (1975) (0)
Vietnam and Michigan: A Study of Faculty Opinion (1967) (0)
SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN URBAN CHINA (2005) (0)
Sexuality, Intimacy, and Family Life in the United States (2003) (0)
6 – The Coalitional Structure of Altneustadt's Elite (1976) (0)
Urban Social Networks 1973 (1982) (0)
Response : Monitoring the U.S. AIDS Epidemic (1989) (0)
Volume Information (1967) (0)
97 Sexual behaviour and sexual problems after the age of 40: The global study of sexual attitudes and behaviours (2004) (0)

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