Mark Granovetter

Joan Butler Ford Professor
School of Humanities and Sciences
Stanford University

Mark Granovetter teaches in the Sociology Faculty of Stanford University. He took up his post in California after holding teaching and research positions at Harvard University (1973-1977), the State University of New York (1977-1992) and Northwestern University (1992-1995).

Mark Granovetter’s work has focused on the interface between economics and sociology. With the “strength of weak ties” he was the proponent of one of the most influential theories of modern sociology, and later developed the concept of “embeddedness”. His many authoritative publications include The Strength of Weak Ties (1973), Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness (1985), Coase Revisited: Business Groups in the Modern Economy (1995), Getting a Job: A Study of Contacts and Careers (2nd edition, 1995), The Sociology of Economic Life (with Richard Swedberg, 2nd edition, 2001).

Since 1986 Mark Granovetter has been editor of the book series Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences for Cambridge University Press. He has served, or continues to serve, on the editorial boards of journals such as the Journal of Consumer Culture, the American Sociological Review, the Administrative Science Quarterly and Rationality and Society. He is a member of several associations, such as the American Sociological Association, the American Economic Association, the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) and the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy.