Mustafa Emirbayer
{{Short description|American sociologist}}
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| birth_place = Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
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| fields = Sociology
| workplaces = University of Wisconsin–Madison
| alma_mater = University of California, Davis (B.A.)
Harvard University (M.A.) (Ph.D.)
| doctoral_advisor = Nathan Glazer
| academic_advisors = Theda Skocpol, Daniel Bell, David Riesman
| doctoral_students = Matthew Desmond, Mimi Sheller, Jacques Berlinerblau, Shamus Khan
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| known_for = Social network analysis, relational sociology
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| awards = Lewis A. Coser Award, Clifford Geertz Award
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Mustafa Emirbayer is an American sociologist and professor of sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is known for his theoretical contributions to social network analysis, and is "one of the most vocal advocates of the relational approach in the social sciences."{{cite journal|last1=Erikson|first1=Emily|title=Formalist and relationalist theory in social network analysis|journal=Sociological Theory|date=2013|volume=31|issue=3|pages=219–242|url=http://www.bebr.ufl.edu/sites/default/files/Erikson%20-%202013%20-%20Formalist%20and%20Relationalist%20Theory%20in%20Social%20Netwo.pdf|access-date=July 18, 2014|doi=10.1177/0735275113501998|s2cid=19492749}} In 2009 he won the Lewis A. Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda-Setting from the American Sociological Association.
Career
Emirbayer was born in Detroit, Michigan, to parents of Turkish and Crimean Tatar descent. He also spent part of his childhood in Santa Barbara, California, and his high school years in Mexico City, Mexico.{{cite web|title=Emirbayer's Bio|url=http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~emirbaye/Mustafa_Emirbayer/BIO.html|website=www.ssc.wisc.edu|access-date=July 18, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219081501/http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~emirbaye/Mustafa_Emirbayer/BIO.html|archive-date=February 19, 2015|url-status=dead}} He attended the University of California, Davis and received his BA in psychology (with minors in English and History) in 1980. He originally enrolled in the graduate program in psychology at the University of Michigan, where he first took coursework from the sociologist Charles Tilly. He soon realized that he wanted to study sociology as he felt psychology at the time neglected culture, institutions and history. Emirbayer went on to receive his MA in 1985 and PhD in 1989 from Harvard University, both in sociology. His dissertation was "Moral Education in American, 1830–1990" under the direction of Nathan Glazer (chair), Daniel Bell, David Riesman, and Theda Skocpol.
Emirbayer attended Harvard shortly after the "revolution" in social network analysis,{{Cite web|url=http://www.analytictech.com/mb119/chapt2a.htm|title=Chapter 2 -- intro}} and later at The New School, along with colleagues Charles Tilly and Harrison White, he played a key role in The New York School of relational sociology.{{cite web |url=https://ssc.wisc.edu/~emirbaye/Mustafa_Emirbayer/BIO.html |title=BIO |website=ssc.wisc.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100731113212/http://ssc.wisc.edu/~emirbaye/Mustafa_Emirbayer/BIO.html |archive-date=2010-07-31}} In 2015, he became the editor-in-chief of the journal Sociological Theory.{{cite web | url=http://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/savvy/footnotes/septoct15/st_0915.html | title=Sociological Theory Welcomes New Editor Mustafa Emirbayer | publisher=American Sociological Association | work=Footnotes | date=September–October 2015 | access-date=7 May 2017 | author=Goldberg, Chad Alan}}
Major contributions
When he was at the New School for Social Research, along with co-author Jeff Goodwin, Emirbayer won the 1994 Clifford Geertz Award for Best Article in Cultural Sociology{{cite web|title=Section On Culture Past Award Recipients|date=March 8, 2011|url=http://www.asanet.org/sections/culture_recipients_History.cfm|access-date=July 17, 2014}} for the article “Network Analysis, Culture, and the Problem of Agency”.{{cite journal |title=Emirbayer, Mustafa, and Jeff Goodwin. "Network analysis, culture, and the problem of agency." American Journal of Sociology (1994): 1411–1454 |journal=American Journal of Sociology |volume=99 |issue=6 |pages=1411–1454 |jstor=2782580 |last1=Emirbayer |first1=Mustafa |last2=Goodwin |first2=Jeff |year=1994 |doi=10.1086/230450 |s2cid=143965662 }}
Inspired by discussions at a series of mini-conferences organized by Harrison White at the Lazarsfeld Center,{{cite book |last1=Mische|first1=Ann|chapter=Relational sociology, culture, and agency |editor=John Scott |editor2=Peter J. Carrington |title=The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis |date=2011 |pages=80–97 }} Emirbayer began to write a systematic statement regarding the "relational turn" he felt was necessary for sociology. In 1997 he published the Manifesto for Relational Sociology{{cite journal|last1=Emirbayer|first1=Mustafa|title=Manifesto for Relational Sociology|journal=American Journal of Sociology|date=1997|volume=103|issue=2|pages=281–317|jstor=231209 |doi=10.1086/231209|s2cid=143961131}} in the American Journal of Sociology, which brought various social theorists together under one label.
His most-cited publication, with Ann Mische, is their 1998 article "What is Agency?"Emirbayer, Mustafa, and Ann Mische. "What is agency? 1." American Journal of Sociology 103.4 (1998): 962–1023. www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/231294 In the article, the authors apply "relational pragmatics" to demonstrate the "dynamic interplay" of routine, purpose and judgement in explaining human agency.
In 2009 he was elected to the Chair of the Sociological Theory Section of the American Sociological Association. Also in 2009 he won the Lewis A. Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda-Setting.{{cite web|title=ASAnet.org|url=http://www.asanet.org/sections/theory_recipients_History.cfm|website=Theory Section Awards Recipients History|date=November 3, 2010}}
In 2014, Emirbayer was a keynote speaker at Yale's Center for Cultural Sociology special conference on "Advancing Cultural Sociology".{{cite web |url=http://ccs.research.yale.edu/events/ccs-2014/ |title=CCS Anniversary Conference ~ Advancing Cultural Sociology ~ Spring 2014 | Center for Cultural Sociology |access-date=2014-10-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141023103111/http://ccs.research.yale.edu/events/ccs-2014/ |archive-date=October 23, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}
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