Identities, Boundaries and Social Ties offers a distinctive, coherent account of social processes and individuals' connections to their larger social and political worlds. It is novel in demonstrating the connections between inequality and de-democratization, between identities and social inequality, and between citizenship and identities. The book treats interpersonal transactions as the basic elements of larger social processes. Tilly shows how personal interactions compound into identities, create and transform social boundaries, and accumulate into durable social ties. He also shows how individual and group dispositions result from interpersonal transactions. Resisting the focus on deliberated individual action, the book repeatedly gives attention to incremental effects, indirect effects, environmental effects, feedback, mistakes, repairs, and unanticipated consequences. Social life is complicated. But, the book shows, it becomes comprehensible once you know how to look at it.

Social Capital, the advantage created by location in social structure, is a critical element in business strategy. Who has it, how it works, and how to develop it have become key questions as markets, organizations, and careers become more and more dependent on informal, discretionary relationships. The formal organization deals with accountability; Everything else flows through the informal: advice, coordination, cooperation friendship, gossip, knowledge, trust. Informal relations have always been with us, they have always mattered. What is new is the range of activities in which they now matter, and the emerging clarity we have about how they create advantage for certain people at the expense of others. This is done by brokerage and closure. Ronald S. Burt builds upon his celebrated work in this area to explore the nature of brokerage and closure. Brokerage is the activity of people who live at the intersection of social worlds, who have a vision advantage of seeing and developing good ideas, an advantage which can be seen in their compensation, recognition, and the responsibility they're entrusted with in comparison to their peers. Closure is the tightening of coordination in a closed network of people, and people who do this do well as a complement to brokers because of the trust and alignment they create. Brokerage and Closure explores how these elements work together to define social capital, showing how in the business world reputation has come to replace authority, pursued opportunity assignment, and reward has come to be associated with achieving competitive advantage in a social order of continuous disequilibrium.

Networks form essential links in all organizations. They exist among co-workers, among firms, and among individuals and institutions. They establish patterns that both propel and impede activity. Since networks are such a vital component of how organizations function, it is increasingly important for businesses to understand how they work. "Networks and Organizations" explores the significant link between the structure of an organization and how it affects action. Using the perspectives of leading scholars and practitioners in sociology and management, it examines such timely issues as: is entrepreneurial activity easier in some networks than in others?; can electronic ties substitute for face-to-face relations?; are industries such as biotechnology better learning systems because of extensive networking?; do highly networked economies, like Japan's, have a comparative advantage? Based on a Harvard Business School colloquium, this book considers networks in various firms, industries and economies. It aims to provide managers and researchers with new insight into understanding the pivotal role of networks in organizations.

The problem of collective action is that each member of a group wants other members to make necessary sacrifices while he or she 'free rides', reaping the benefits of collective action without doing the work. Inevitably the end result is that no one does the work and the common interest is not realized. This book analyses the social pressure whereby groups solve the problem of collective action. The authors show that the problem of collective action requires a model of group process and cannot be deduced from simple models of individual behaviour. They employ formal mathematical models to emphasize the role of small subgroups of especially motivated individuals who form the 'critical mass' that sets collective action in motion. The book will be read with special interest by sociologists, social psychologists, economists and political scientists. It will also be of concern to those in industrial relations and communications research working on issues in collective action and rational choice.

"Return to Aztlan" analyzes the social process of international migration through an intensive study of four carefully chosen Mexican communities. The book combines historical, anthropological, and survey data to construct a vivid and comprehensive picture of the social dynamics of contemporary Mexican migration to the United States.

《社会网分析讲义(第2版)》：社会网分析的理论架构
社会网分析在社会学研究中的角色
社会网研究的类别
自我中心社会网资料的收集
整体社会网资料的收集
图形理论与社会计量学
中心性分析
小团体分析
社会资本的定义与衡量
角色分析
网络动态学

《结构洞:竞争的结构》是“经济与社会译丛”之一，全书共分7个章节，主要对竞争的社会结构作了介绍，具体内容包括竞争的社会结构、理论模型、盈利、玩家一结构二元性、犯错误和求生存等。结构洞理论是罗纳德·伯特结合奥地利学派和格兰诺维特的网络分析于1992年提出的。伯特认为，在社会网络中，某些个体之间存在无直接联系或关系间断的现象，从网络整体来看，好像网络结构中出现了洞穴，这就是结构洞。而将无直接联系的两者连接起来的第三者拥有信息优势和控制优势，因此，组织和组织中的个人都要争取占据结构洞中的第三者位置。

为甚么珠宝商在卖绿松石时会很犹豫，尽管后者需求很大？为甚么尽管利润很高，那些处于行业领先地位的投资银行却一直避免从事垃圾债券业务？乔尔·波多尼编著的《地位的信号(对市场竞争的社会学研究)》是第一本考察对地位的考虑如何影响市场竞争的社会学专著。乔尔·波多尼在《地位的信号(对市场竞争的社会学研究)》中解释了对地位的焦虑如何影响一个生产者作出关于是否接纳某个生产者作为合作伙伴的决定、对地位的焦虑如何影响一个生产者对产品的标价、一个生产者在进入一个市场时的状态、某项发明被接受的程度，以及一个生产者能够（或者应该）进入的市场领域。为了获得想要的地位，公司必须有更好的业绩和产品质量，他们也必须发出和管理社会及文化信号。