Contributions to social network analysis, organizational sociology, sociology of sexuality
Scientific career
Fields
Sociology
Institutions
University of Michigan, University of Chicago
Doctoral advisor
George C. Homans
Other academic advisors
Talcott Parsons, Harrison White
Notable students
Ronald Stuart Burt, Benjamin Cornwell, Paula England, Joseph Galaskiewicz, Robert M. Hauser, Peter Marsden, Kazuo Yamaguchi, Nora Cate Schaeffer
Edward Otto Laumann (born August 31, 1938) is an American sociologist. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. Laumann earned his Ph.D. in the Harvard Department of Social Relations in 1964, where he worked with George Homans, Talcott Parsons, and Harrison White. He served as Dean of the social sciences and Provost at Chicago. He is best known for his work on social stratification, urban sociology, organizational sociology, health and aging, and is widely recognized as a pioneer in the areas of social network analysis[1] and the sociology of sexuality. In 2013, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[2]
^Freeman, Linton C. The Development of Social Network Analysis. Vancouver: Empirical Press, 2004.
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Edward Otto Laumann (born August 31, 1938) is an American sociologist. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago...
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Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 2007, where he studied under EdwardLaumann, Linda Waite, and Jason Beckfield. He works on methods to study issues...
the Human Male as "methodologically far from persuasive". Sociologist EdwardLaumann stated that the Kinsey Reports were limited to the biology of sex and...
the University of Chicago in 2008, where she worked with Linda Waite, EdwardLaumann, and Kathleen Cagney. She specializes in survey research methods, and...
analytically inclined sociologists. His first graduate student at Harvard was EdwardLaumann who went onto develop one of the most widely used methods of studying...
influenced another of his early 1960s graduate students, EdwardLaumann. As a student, Laumann was interested in the role of social network structure in...
National Health and Social Life Survey, co-directed by sociologist EdwardLaumann of the University of Chicago. That survey questioned 3,300 adults ages...
National Health and Social Life Survey, co-directed by sociologist EdwardLaumann of the University of Chicago. That survey questioned 3,300 adults ages...
as Ronald Burt, Kathleen Carley, Mark Granovetter, David Krackhardt, EdwardLaumann, Anatol Rapoport, Barry Wellman, Douglas R. White, and Harrison White...
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of the general population. University of Chicago sociology professor EdwardLaumann also argued that Kinsey's work was focused on the biology of sex and...
University of Chicago (M.A. in 1975, Ph.D. in 1979). He studied under EdwardLaumann. He contributed to developing sociological methods for studying studying...
His dissertation committee also included the social network analyst EdwardLaumann. Prior to joining the University of Chicago in 1993, he was a professor...
in America. New York: Little Brown. (Co-author with Robert Michael, EdwardLaumann, and Gina Kolata.) (Translations into Dutch 1995, German 1994, Japanese...
1981), MBA, 1984) Influences James Samuel Coleman, Charles Bidwell, EdwardLaumann Contributions Work on hospital-physician relationships, physician networks...
the 2000 book chapter "A Paradigm for Social Capital" co-written with EdwardLaumann, in which she argues that social capital should be understood in terms...
University of Chicago. Her dissertation committee included Charles Bidwell, EdwardLaumann, Paul Hirsch, Donald Levine, and Michael Schudson. Her dissertation...
(ed.). Gender and economics. Aldershot, England Brookfield, Vermont, USA: Edward Elgar. pp. 42–58. ISBN 978-1-85278-843-8. England, Paula (1995). "The failure...
York: Population Council. Lindau, Stacy Tessler; Schumm, L. Philip; Laumann, Edward O.; Levinson, Wendy; O'Muircheartaigh, Colm A.; Waite, Linda J. (2007-08-23)...
becoming sexually aroused at some point in their lives. A 1994 study by Laumann et al. found that 75 percent of men and 29 percent of women always had...
Orientation. The Kinsey Institute Series. New York: Oxford University Press. Laumann, Edward O. (1994). The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in...
the "big O"?". CBS News. 21 August 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2022. Laumann, Edward O. (15 December 2000). The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual...
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