Mark Granovetter | Academic Influence

Why Is Mark Granovetter Influential?

By Sara L. Austin, EdD

Mark Sanford Granovetter is a professor at Stanford University. He is a prominent sociologist who earned an A.B. in history at Princeton University and a Ph.D in sociology from Harvard University.

He is one of the most cited experts in the field, best known for his paper called The Strength of Weak Ties, which has been cited over 50,000 times. He has also conducted research in economic sociology. His article, Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness, is said to have inspired a new field of inquiry in economic sociology. In 2014 he was believed to be a Nobel Prize contender and was placed on Thomson Reuters’s list predicting winners for economics.

He has spent his career at institutions such as Johns Hopkins University, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stanford University, and Northwestern University.

His most recent book, Society and Economy: Framework and Principles, was published in 2017. He was recognized recently by Thomson Reuters, which named him a Citation Laureate, an honor reserved for the most heavily cited scholars in their respective fields of inquiry. He is the Joan Butler Ford Professor of Sociology and the Joan Butler Ford Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University.

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According to Wikipedia, Mark Sanford Granovetter is an American sociologist and professor at Stanford University. He is best known for his work in social network theory and in economic sociology, particularly his theory on the spread of information in social networks known as "The Strength of Weak Ties" . Granovetter was recently recognized as a Citation Laureate by Thomson Reuters and added to that organization’s list of predicted Nobel Prize winners in economics for the year 2014. Data from the Web of Science show that Granovetter has written both the first and third most cited sociology articles.

Mark Granovetter's Published Works

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Published Papers

The Strength of Weak Ties (1973) (36286)
Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness (1985) (25066)
The Strength of Weak Ties: A Network Theory Revisited (1983) (7412)
Threshold Models of Collective Behavior (1978) (4874)
Getting a Job: A Study of Contacts and Careers (1974) (3292)
The Impact of Social Structure on Economic Outcomes (2005) (2419)
Economic Action and Social Structure: the Problem of Embeddedness (1985) (2305)
Economic Institutions as Social Constructions: A Framework for Analysis (1992) (978)
The Sociology of Economic Life (1991) (975)
Getting a Job: A Study of Contacts and Careers. (1976) (875)
Coase Revisited: Business Groups in the Modern Economy (1995) (624)
The Economic Sociology of Firms and Entrepreneurs (2000) (495)
Network Sampling: Some First Steps (1976) (424)
Alliance Capitalism: The Social Organization of Japanese Business. (1992) (391)
Threshold models of diffusion and collective behavior (1983) (386)
Threshold models of interpersonal effects in consumer demand (1986) (297)
The role of venture capital firms in Silicon Valley's complex innovation network (2009) (289)
A Theoretical Agenda for Economic Sociology (2000) (244)
SMALL IS BOUNTIFUL: LABOR MARKETS AND ESTABLISHMENT SIZE* (1984) (224)
The Making of an Industry: Electricity in the United States (1998) (219)
Polanyi Symposium: a conversation on embeddedness (2004) (202)
ECONOMIC ACTION AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE: (198)
The Sociological and Economic Approaches to Labor Market Analysis (1988) (190)
Social Networks in Silicon Valley (2001) (178)
Society and Economy: Framework and Principles (2017) (153)
Threshold Models of Diversity: Chinese Restaurants, Residential Segregation, and the Spiral of Silence (1988) (146)
Social construction of corruption (2004) (121)
Inequality and labor processes. (1988) (120)
AÇÃO ECONÔMICA E ESTRUTURA SOCIAL: O PROBLEMA DA IMERSÃO (2007) (96)
CHAPTER 24 – THE THEORY-GAP IN SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS1 (1979) (92)
Threshold Models of Collective Behavior 1 (2008) (73)
Electric charges: The social construction of rate systems (2005) (69)
19. Business Groups and Social Organization (2010) (63)
The Idea of "Advancement" in Theories of Social Evolution and Development (1979) (62)
Ignorance, Knowledge, and Outcomes in a Small World (2003) (55)
The Micro-Structure of School Desegregation (1986) (47)
Coase Encounters and Formal Models: Taking Gibbons Seriously (1999) (45)
Generalized Blockmodeling (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences) (2004) (42)
The Myth of Social Network Analysis as a Special Method in the Social Sciences (1990) (39)
Networks of Collective Action: A Perspective on Community Influence Systems.Edward O. Laumann , Franz U. Pappi (1978) (21)
Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences (2020) (20)
Introduction for the French Reader (2007) (19)
Granovetter Replies to Gans (1974) (17)
Alienation Reconsidered : The Strength of Weak Ties (2003) (11)
Attitudes towards Social Networking and Sharing Behaviors among Consumers of Direct-to-Consumer Personal Genomics (2013) (9)
Evolutionary Epistemology and Human Values [and Comments and Reply] (1981) (9)
Reply to Morgan and Rytina (1977) (9)
A construção social da corrupção (2008) (7)
The Strength of Weak Ties (translated by Zoya Kotelnikova) (2009) (7)
Network Sampling : Some First Steps 1 (2007) (6)
THRESHOLD MODELS OF INTERPERSONAL EFFECTS IN (1986) (4)
Mark Granovetter on economic sociology in Europe (1999) (2)
T H E S T R E N G T H O F WEAK TIES: A NETWORK THEORY REVISITED (1983) (2)
Social networks and innovation (2017) (2)
The Strength of Weak Ties Author ( s ) (2007) (2)
A Note on Social Networks and Network Structure (2008) (1)
Comment on "Capitalist Entrepreneurship: Making Profit through the Unmaking of Economic Orders" (by Thorbjørn Knudsen and Richard Swedberg) (2009) (1)
Convergence Stood on Its Head: A New Look at Japanese and American Work Organization@@@Culture, Control and Commitment: A Study of Work Organization and Work Attitudes in the United States and Japan. (1990) (1)
Book Review:Human Activity Patterns in the City: Things People Do in Time and in Space. F. Stuart Chapin, Jr. (1975) (1)
6. The Social Construction of Corruption (2007) (1)
The Sociology of Economic Life.@@@Explorations in Economic Sociology. (1994) (1)
How Coherent is the Field of Social Stratification?@@@Inequality and Labor Processes@@@Race and Ethnicity@@@Sociology of Age@@@Gender and Sex Roles (1989) (1)
Reply to Nolan (1982) (1)
Society and Economy (2017) (1)
Introduction to the Third Edition (2018) (1)
Volume Information (1987) (0)
Interview with Mark Granovetter: «Organization Theory and Economic Sociology Go along Side by Side» (translated by Dana Assalauova) (2012) (0)
Book Review:Members of Two Worlds: A Development Study of Three Villages in Western Sicily. Johan Galtung (1974) (0)
Acknowledgment of external reviewers for 1998 (1999) (0)
Membership/Subscription Form (2003) (0)
Cooperation in conflict Investigating the patterns and outcomes of coalitions in the field of organized violence (2019) (0)
33. The Strength of Weak Ties (2009) (0)
An Upbeat View of Current Sociological Theory (1984) (0)
Book reviews (1982) (0)
Economics and Sociology (2020) (0)
Retrovisore Introduction for the French Reader by Mark Granovetter (2019) (0)
Volume Information (1990) (0)
Agenda Setting for Sociological Research@@@Inequality and Labor Processes@@@Race and Ethnicity@@@Sociology of Age@@@Gender and Sex Roles (1989) (0)
Review Essay: An Upbeat View of Current Sociological Theory (2016) (0)
who emerged following the discipline ’ s revival in the 80 ’ s and the pioneering work of (2019) (0)

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