John Levi Martin is an American sociologist. He is currently professor of sociology at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

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He is the author of Social Structures and DAMN (Dyadic Analysis of Multiple Networks) and ELLA (Every-gal-and-guy’s Latent Lattice Analyser).

Areas of activity

John Levi Martin is an intellectual nomad in the vast universe of sociological inquiry. These days, his main areas of interest are: field theory, social structures and party formation. He has previously written on classical theory, historical changes in sexual decision making and the economy, the shaping of belief systems, the use of racism as a valid conceptual category in American sociology, the relationship between interpersonal power and attributions of sexiness, methods for the analysis of qualitative data, political psychology, and the division of labor in Busytown

Busytown

Busytown is a fictional town inhabited by an assortment of anthropomorphic animals, as depicted in various books by the children's author Richard Scarry. Main characters of these books include the following: Huckle Cat, Lowly Worm, Mr. Frumble, police Sergeant Murphy, Mr...

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Selected works

• (1998)“Structures of Power in Naturally Occurring Communities.” Social Networks, 20:197-225.
• (1999)“Entropic Measures of Belief System Constraint.” Social Science Research, 28:111-134.
• (1999) (With James Wiley:) “Algebraic Representations of Beliefs and Attitudes: Partial Order Models for Item Responses.” Sociological Methodology 29:113-146.
• (1999)“A General Permutation-Based QAP Analysis for Dyadic Data from Multiple Groups.” Connections 22: 50-60.
• (2002)“Some Algebraic Structures for Diffusion in Social Networks.” Journal of Mathematical Sociology 26: 123-146.
• (2003)“What is Field Theory?” American Journal of Sociology 109: 1-49
• (2009) Social Structures. Princeton University Press.