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Thomas Fararo

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#137

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#187

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#72

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Thomas Fararo's Degrees

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, Thomas J. Fararo was Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh. After earning a Ph.D. in sociology at Syracuse University in 1963, he received a three-year postdoctoral fellowship for studies in pure and applied mathematics at Stanford University . In 1967, he joined the faculty of University of Pittsburgh; during 1972-1973, he was visiting professor at the University of York in England.

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Thomas Fararo's Published Works

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Rational Choice Theory: Advocacy and Critique (1992) (270)
Status and Participation in Task Groups: A Dynamic Network Model (1996) (137)
A study of a biased friendship net (1964) (118)
Structural equivalence in a journal network (1985) (106)
The Problem of Solidarity: Theories and Models (1998) (100)
An introduction to catastrophes (1978) (78)
Differentiation Theory and Social Change: Comparative and Historical Perspectives. (1991) (76)
Tripartite structural analysis: Generalizing the Breiger-Wilson formalism (1984) (71)
The meaning of general theoretical sociology: Frontmatter (1989) (67)
Advances in biased net theory: definitions, derivations, and estimations (2004) (66)
Unification Research Programs: Integrating Two Structural Theories (1987) (66)
Institutions as production systems (1984) (62)
E-State Structuralism: A Theoretical Method (1986) (62)
Biased networks and social structure theorems (1981) (60)
Locating Leaders in Local Communities: A Comparison of Some Alternative Approaches (1963) (58)
Actors and networks as objects (1995) (47)
Languages and grammars of action and interaction: A contribution to the formal theory of action (1980) (45)
Action and institution, network and function: The cybernetic concept of social structure (1986) (44)
Biased networks and social structure theorems: Part II (1984) (44)
Social Action Systems: Foundation and Synthesis in Sociological Theory (2001) (40)
Purpose, meaning, and action : control systems theories in sociology (2006) (40)
The emergence of computational sociology (1995) (39)
Advances in generative structuralism: Structured agency and multilevel dynamics (1999) (39)
Rational Choice Theory: Advocacy and Critique. (1993) (38)
General Social Equilibrium: Toward Theoretical Synthesis (1993) (36)
Social structure, networks, and E‐state structuralism models (1996) (35)
Mathematical sociology : an introduction to fundamentals (1975) (32)
Power and network exchange: an essay toward theoretical unification (1992) (26)
The Meaning of General Theoretical Sociology: Tradition and Formalization (1989) (26)
The Spirit of Unification in Sociological Theory (1989) (25)
Max Weber's comparative-historical sociology (1995) (24)
Reflections on Mathematical Sociology (1997) (23)
Biased networks and the strength of weak ties (1983) (22)
Assessing hierarchy and balance in dynamic network models (1995) (22)
Advances in E-state structuralism: further studies in dominance structure formation (1994) (18)
Generating Images of Stratification: A Formal Theory (2003) (18)
Role-Programme Models and the Analysis of Institutional Structure (1980) (16)
Neoclassical theorizing and formalization in sociology (1984) (16)
A mathematical analysis of Boudon's IEO model (1976) (13)
Theoretical Sociology in the 20th Century (2001) (12)
Luce's Axiom and occupational prestige: Test of a measurement model† (1974) (12)
Purpose, Meaning, and Action (2006) (11)
The Information Processing Representation of Institutionalised Social Action (1976) (11)
Action structures and sociological action theory (1989) (11)
SOCIAL ACTIVITY AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE THEORY OF SOCIAL SYSTEMS (1981) (9)
Generating Images of Stratification (2003) (9)
The problem of solidarity (1998) (8)
Status and Interaction (2016) (7)
Generating images of the shape of a class system (1992) (7)
Modelling the Interaction Ritual Theory of Solidarity (2012) (7)
Critique and comment. Catastrophe analysis of the simon‐homans model (1984) (6)
Generating Symbolic Interaction (1996) (5)
Cognitive Value Commitments in Formal Theoretical Sociology (2000) (5)
Rationality and Formal Theory (1992) (4)
Theory of status (1968) (4)
Institutionalized Social Action: Control at the Program Level (2006) (4)
Generating narrative forms (1993) (4)
Toward Models of Power Development in Exchange Networks (1993) (4)
Evolutionary game theory and human social structures (1984) (3)
Status Characteristics and Social Interaction: An Expectation-States Approach.Joseph Berger , H. Famit Fisek , Robert Z. Norman , Morris Zelditch, Jr. (1978) (3)
Status, expectations, and situation: A formulation of the structure theory of status characteristics and expectation states (1972) (3)
The meaning of general theoretical sociology: Preface (1989) (3)
Issues in institution representation: Reply to the commentaries* (1984) (3)
Mathematical ideas and sociological theory : current state and prospects (1984) (3)
Review essay : Quantitative sociodynamics : Stochastic methods and models of social interaction processes by Dirk Helbing (1996) (2)
Theoretical studies in status and stratification (1970) (2)
Analytical Sociology and Social Mechanisms: Generative process model building (2011) (2)
Strictly Stratified Systems (1970) (2)
A collection of tributes to Linton C. Freeman (2018) (2)
Group formation in friendship networks (1998) (1)
Differentiation Theory and Social Change: Comparative and Historical Perspectives.Edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander and Paul Colomy. Columbia University Press. 1990. 510 pp. $40.00 (1991) (1)
The meaning of general theoretical sociology: Introduction (1989) (1)
The meaning of general theoretical sociology: References (1989) (1)
Understanding Agency: Social Theory and Responsible Action (review) (2001) (1)
Sociology, history, and the abstract perspective (1973) (1)
Acknowledgments to Referees (1998) (0)
The Methodology of Formal Theorizing (2003) (0)
Images of the Shape of a Stratified System (2003) (0)
Toward Coherence, Via Control@@@Control: Sociology's Central Notion. (1990) (0)
The meaning of general theoretical sociology: Structuralism and unification (1989) (0)
The human difference: Animals, computers, and the necessity of social science (1996) (0)
The meaning of general theoretical sociology: Dynamical social systems and the key problems (1989) (0)
Stratification and Consciousness (2003) (0)
Theory and Epistemology 605 (0)
The Panoply of Structural Images (2003) (0)
The meaning of general theoretical sociology: Summary (1989) (0)
Talcott Parsons: Economic Sociologist of the 20th Century (2007) (0)
The meaning of general theoretical sociology: A philosophy of general theoretical sociology (1989) (0)
Streetwise: How Taxi Drivers Establish Their Customers' Trustworthiness (review) (2007) (0)
Streetwise: How Taxi Drivers Establish Their Customers' Trustworthiness Diego Gambetta and Heather Hamill Russell Sage Foundation, 2005. 243 pages. $39.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper) (2007) (0)
Volume Information (1987) (0)
Introduction: Control Systems Thinking in Sociological Theory (2006) (0)
Understanding Agency: Social Theory and Responsible Action. By Barry Barnes. Sage Publications. 163 pp. Paper, $19.95 (2001) (0)
The meaning of general theoretical sociology: Action theory and social order (1989) (0)
Proliferation: New Directions of Research (2003) (0)
Self-Location in a Stratified System (2003) (0)
Other books in the Arnold and Caroline Rose Monograph Series of the American Sociological Association (1989) (0)

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