Volume 11 Summer Supplement The Mathematical Sociologist Newsletter of the Mathematical Section of Section Officers: the American Sociological Association 2007-2008

Chair Diane Felmlee, Greetings from the Chair University of California-Davis Diane Felmlee ([email protected])

Chair-Elect Barbara Meeker Join me in congratulating the winners of our Sec- University of Maryland tion Awards. We will honor the awardees at our ([email protected]) Section Reception, which takes place at the Hilton Past Chair on Sun., Aug. 3, beginning at 6:30 pm. Our Douglas Heckathorn Cornell University thanks go out to the Committee Chairs, and com- ([email protected]) mittee members who worked on these committees.

Secretary-Treasurer Congratulations to our newly elected section offi- James Moody cers, too (see below). You are welcome to attend Ohio State University our Section Council breakfast meeting on Sat., ([email protected]) Aug. 2. Council Members Hope to see many of you at our sessions and meet- ings in Boston. Guillermina Jasso Newly Elected Officers: Diane 2008-2009 ([email protected]) Chair-Elect Eugene C. Johnson Ronald L. Breiger University of California- Section Council Meeting University of Arizona Santa Barbara ([email protected]) ([email protected])

Date: Sat., Aug. 2 Council Members Michael W. Macy Cornell University Time: 7:30 – 8:30 AM James Kitts ([email protected]) Place: Forty Dalton, Hilton Boston Back Bay ([email protected]) Jane Sell Hotel Texas A&M All Section Council members and Section offi- Dawn Robinson, ([email protected]) University of Georgia cers are invited to attend a breakfast Council ([email protected]) Brent Simpson meeting on Sat. morning from 7:30 – 8:30 AM. University of South Carolina Student Member ([email protected]) It will be held at the main restaurant, the Forty

Dalton, in the Hilton Boston Back Bay Hotel, Cyprian Wejnert Kazuo Yamaguchi which is the convention hotel for our Section. Cornell University University of Chicago ([email protected]) ([email protected]) We have several items of business, including

issues related to the section awards. Please send Student Member Matthew Brashears additional business items to Diane Felmlee, University of Arizona [email protected]. ([email protected])

Newsletter Editors Alison Bianchi [email protected] Inside this issue: Pamela Emanuelson Cover University of South Carolina 2008-2009 Elected Officers ([email protected]) Cover Webmaster Section Council Meeting Phil Bonacich University of California-Los Angeles Section Awards 2 ([email protected]) ASA Section Session Information 3 Page 2 The Mathematical Sociologist James S. Coleman Distinguished Career Award

Scott A. Boorman

Committee Members: James Moody, Chair Matthew Brasheres, Peter Hedstrom Matthew Bothner and Barbara Meeker

Outstanding Article Publication Award

Delia Baldassarri and Peter Bearman

“Dynamics of Political Polarization,” American Sociological Review 72: 784-811, 2007.

Committee Members: Michael Macy, Chair Ron Burt and James Moody

Outstanding Graduate Student Paper

To Be Announced

Committee Members: Guillermina Jasso , Chair Eugene Johnsen, Brent Simpson, Yoshimichi Sato, Charlotta Stern and Peter Bahr

Mathematical Sociology Dissertation Award

Pamela Emanuelson

“Extension and Refinement of Network Exchange Theory”

Committee Members: Diane Felmlee , Chair Ken Land, Robert Shelly, Nancy Tuma and Brent Simpson Page 3 The Mathematical Sociologist Information about the Mathematical Sociology Section Sessions at the ASA Regular Session. Mathematical Sociology. Section on Mathematical Sociology Paper Sat. Aug. 2, 2:30-4:10 Hilton Boston Back Bay Session: Some Flavors of Work in Mathe- Organizer: John Skvoretz, University of South matical Sociology cont. Flordia; Presider: Michael Lovaglia, Uni- Cooperation and Reputation in Dynamic Net- versity of Iowa works Rense Corten, Utrecht University; How Do Terrorist Cells Self-Assemble? In- Karen S. Cook, sights from an Agent Based Model. Mi- Spatial Analysis of Social Networks Carter T. chael Genkin, Cornell University; Alexan- Butts, University of California, Irvine; Ryan der Gutfraind, Cornell University. M. Acton, University of California, Irvine Local Convergence and Global Diversity: From Interpersonal to Global Influence. Andreas Flache; University of Groningen; Michael W. Macy, Cornell University. Section on Mathematical Sociology Paper Modal Constructions in Sociological Argu- Session and Mathematical Sociology ments. Michael Hannan, Stanford Univer- Business Meeting. sity; Greta Hsu, UC Davis; Laszlo Polos. Sat. Aug. 2, 10:30-11:30 Hilton Boston Back Bay New Measures of Relative Deprivation and Organizer and Presider: Diane Felmlee the Societal Justice Index. Jasso Guiller- Network Exchange Theory: A Decade of mina, New York University; Samuel Kotz, Growth Pamela Emanuelson, University of George Washington University. South Carolina. Discussant: Michael Lovaglia, University of Epidemic Potential in Networks with Diverse Iowa Degree Distributions James Moody, Duke University. Dynamic Models: Retrospective and Prospec- Section on Mathematical Sociology Paper tive Views Nancy Brandon Tuma, Stanford Session: Some Flavors of Work in University Mathematical Sociology. Sat. Aug. 2, 12:30-2:10 Hilton Boston Back Bay Organizer and Presider: Eugene C. Johnsen, University of California, Santa Barbara How Concerns for Legitimacy Can Bias As- sessments of Efficiency Jerker Denrell, Stanford University; Gael Le Mens, Stan- ford University When Do Matthew Effects Occur? Matthew S. Bothner, University of Chicago; Richard Haynes, Credit Suisse First Boston; Joel Podolny, Harvard University Efficiency and Strong Power: Testing Basic Assumptions of Theories of Exchange. Marcel Van Assen, Universiteit van Til- burg; Pamela Emanuelson, University of South Carolina; David Willer, University of South Carolina Hilton Boston Back Bay Hotel in Boston, MA