This workshop meets on a weekly basis to discuss dissertation proposals, funding proposals, book prospectuses, articles in progress, and memos about new ideas and projects in formation. Substantively, the workshop accommodates a diverse set of projects and themes, albeit with some common bases for conversation.  Among the common strands are themes such as: analyzing institutionally embedded practices; studying formal and informal network structures; talk and agency in networks; culture in action; the temporalities of social life; network dynamics and institutional change; and ways of tackling the relationship between micro and macro.

September 24, 2009
Bilbao's Aste Nagusia: Social Movement Networks, Cultural Events, and Identity Work among Basque Nationalists (1978-2009)             
Ignacia Perugorrìa

October 1, 2009                   
Relational Sociology, Culture, and Agency.
Ann Mische

October 8. 2009
Institutional Change in the Energy-Efficiency Field: The Emergence of Market Transformation, Network Evolution and NGO-Business Partnering Practice
Rachael Shwom                    

October 15, 2009
The Structure of Personal Relationships in the Context of Declining Fertility Rates.
Neha Gondal

October 22, 2009                 
Janet Lorenzen

October 29, 2009 
Social Chains and Trees: A Sociological Examination of Genealogical Networks                
Eviatar Zerubavel

November 5, 2009               
Interpersonal Networks in the Field of Politics and Fate of an Authoritarian State in India.
Sourabh Singh

November 12, 2009             
Selective Local Memory:  Taking Credit for a Making a Community Green.
Karen O’Neill

November 19, 2009             
Head of Household and a Head for Business: Business Life Cycles, Strategic Management and Cognitive Boundaries in Family Businesses.
Eric Kushins

December 3, 2009                
Disentangling cognitive networks from communication networks: The framing of a mobile phone based study in Japan.
Jeff Boase