J. Miller McPherson

Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology

miller.mcpherson@duke.edu

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Selected Publications

"Gender Identity Recognition and Task Performance"

Journal Article Advances in Group Processes: Social Identification in Groups · 2005 Cite

"A Blau Space Primer: Prolegomenon to an Ecology of Affiliation"

Journal Article Industrial and Corporate Change · 2004 Cite

Birds of a feather: Homophily in social networks

Journal Article Annual Review of Sociology · January 1, 2001 Similarity breeds connection. This principle - the homophily principle - structures network ties of every type, including marriage, friendship, work, advice, support, information transfer, exchange, comembership, and other types of relationship. The result ... Full text Cite

"The System of Occupations: Modeling Occupations in Sociodemographic Space"

Journal Article Social Forces · 2001 Cite

"Sampling strategies for the arts: A Hypernetwork Approach"

Journal Article Poetics · January 2000 Cite

“Gender, Children and Social Contact: The Effects of Childrearing for Men and Women”

Journal Article American Sociological Review · 1997 Cite

Competition and Commitment in Voluntary Memberships: The Paradox of Persistence and Participation

Journal Article Sociological Perspectives · 1997 Cite

Testing a Dynamic Model of Social Composition: Diversity and Change in Voluntary Groups.

Journal Article American Sociological Review · 1996 Cite

Niche Position, Niche Overlap, and the Duration of Voluntary Memberships.

Journal Article American Journal of Sociology · November 1995 Cite

Measuring the structure of voluntary organizations: a multitrait, multimethod analysis.

Journal Article Social Forces · March 1995 Cite

Sex and Ethnic Heterogeneity in Face-to-Face Groups in Public Places: An Ecological Perspective on Social Interaction.

Journal Article Social Forces · 1995 Cite

Social Networks and Organizational Dynamics.

Journal Article American Sociological Review · 1992 Cite

Evolution on a Dancing Landscape: Organizations and Networks in Dynamic Blau Space.

Journal Article Social Forces · 1991 Cite

Homophily in Voluntary Organizations: Status Distance and the Composition of Face-to-Face Groups."

Journal Article American Sociological Review · 1987 Cite

"Sex Segregation in Voluntary Associations."

Journal Article American Sociological Review · 1986 Cite

The Size of Voluntary Associations

Journal Article Social Forces · 1983 Cite

An Ecology of Affiliation

Journal Article American Sociological Review · 1983 Cite

Women and Weak Ties: Sex Differences in the Size of Voluntary Associations

Journal Article American Journal of Sociology · 1982 Cite

A Dynamic Model of Voluntary Affiliation

Journal Article Social Forces · March 1981 Cite

The Impact of Political Issues on Political Efficacy: A Panel Analysis

Journal Article Micropolitics · 1981 Cite

The Longitudinal Study of Voluntary Affiliation: A Multivariate Analysis

Journal Article Journal of Voluntary Action Research · January 1980 Cite

Applying Joreskog

Journal Article American Political Science Review · June 1978 Cite

Separating the Reliability and Stability in Political Efficacy: Using Path Analysis to Test Alternative Hypotheses

Journal Article American Political Science Review · June 1977 Cite

Correlates of Social Participation: A Comparison of the Ethnic Community and Compensatory Theories

Journal Article Sociological Quarterly · March 1977 Cite

Theory Trimming

Journal Article Social Science Research · 1976 Cite

Hypothesis Testing in Path Analysis

Journal Article Social Science Research · 1974 Cite

Population Density and Pathology: What Are the Relationships for Man?

Journal Article Science 7 · April 1972 Cite

System Size and Structural Differentiation in Formal Organizations

Journal Article American Sociological Review · January 1972 Cite

On Interactive Path Analysis

Journal Article " The American Sociologist · August 1971 Cite