John Levi Martin

John Levi Martin
Born June 25, 1964
New York City, New York
Fields Sociology
Institutions University of Chicago
Alma mater Wesleyan University (B.A.)
University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.)
Doctoral advisor Ann Swidler
Other academic advisors Mike Hout
Known for cultural sociology, cognitive sociology, political sociology, sociological theory
Notable awards ASA Theory Prize for Outstanding Book 2010, 2012

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,[1] and DAMN (Dyadic Analysis of Multiple Networks) and ELLA (Every-gal-and-guy’s Latent Lattice Analyser).

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 racism as a valid 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.

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