This study of social structures looks at the network approach. It contains non-technical
articles that contrast structural analysis with other social scientific approaches. It deals with …

… Shawn Berkowitz and Margot Bowlby's careful work on the index was greatly appreciated.
As always, without my family's tolerance of irregular hours and father-absent weekends this …

This paper develops a measure of execution costs (market impact) of transactions on the
NYSE. The measure is the volume‐weighted average price over the trading day. It yields …

Sociological and psychological research on why Westerners join new religious movements
in the US has often focused on seven of the more spectacular groups. Sociological studies …

Recent work on economic structure has tended to focus around discovering general or global
mappings to represent complex patterns of binary or multiplex ties. By contrast, this paper …

The ‘fit’ between blockmodels and data networks is extended from a binary to a continuous
concept. An index of goodness-of-fit for α-fit blockmodels is proposed, based on the purity (…

Canadian sociologists interested in elite phenomena have recently become concerned with
(a) the systemic factors influencing elite careers, and (b) the structure of relationships …

Earlier work has examined corporate control, enterprise structure, and horizontal concentration
within the Canadian economy (Berkowitz et al., 1978/1979). Moderately little change was …

With rising turnover in institutional portfolios, investment managers are paying increasing
attention to transaction costs. Some insight into managing costs are provided in an approach …

This book provides both an overview of the core dilemma in America--racism and the deadly
impact it has had on American society--and an account of the ways in which the book's …