Fields Sociology Doctoral advisor Ann Swidler | Name John Martin Role Author | |
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Known for cultural sociology, cognitive sociology, political sociology, sociological theory Notable awards ASA Theory Prize for Outstanding Book 2010, 2012 Alma mater Wesleyan University, University of California, Berkeley Books The Explanation of Social, Thinking Through Theory, Social Structures | ||
Institutions University of Chicago Institution University of Chicago Other academic advisors Mike Hout | ||
Aims of Education Address 2015: John Levi Martin
John Levi Martin (born 1964) is an American sociologist and the Florence Borchert Bartling Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of two books Social Structures, The Explanation of Social Action, both of which won the Theory Prize for Outstanding Book from the ASA's Theory Section, and DAMN (Dyadic Analysis of Multiple Networks) and ELLA (Every-gal-and-guy’s Latent Lattice Analyser).
Contents
- Aims of Education Address 2015 John Levi Martin
- Early life and education
- Areas of activity
- Selected works
- References
Early life and education
Martin studied at Wesleyan University and received a BA in sociology and English in 1987. While there he was influenced by notable political sociologist Herbert Hyman who died in 1985, and Martin received the Herbert Hyman prize for undergraduate sociology for his thesis: The Epistemology of Fundamentalism. He then attended the University of California - Berkeley, where he received a MA in 1990 and a PhD in 1997. His dissertation committee was Ann Swidler (Chair), Mike Hout, James Wiley, John Wilmoth. It was titled Power Structure and Belief Structure in Forty American Communes, and used the Urban Commune Data Set.
Areas of activity
John Levi Martin's current main areas of interest are field theory, social structures, and party formation. His previous work has been 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.