by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2008 | Groups & Networks
2008, Sociologica, 1/2008: 1-20; with Gary Fine. As Fine and Harrington [2004] have argued, the relationship between individuals and the social systems which they inhabit is shaped within face-to-face groups. Early work by Habermas and others on the development of the...
by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2006 | Groups & Networks
2006, Small Group Research, 37 (1): 1-16; with Gary Fine. Although small group research has been somewhat marginalized within sociology during the past decades, the authors argue that a focus on interaction arenas can contribute to a more complete analysis of social...
by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2004 | Groups & Networks
2004, Sociological Theory, 22 (3): 341-356; with Gary Fine. It has been conventional to conceptualize civic life through one of two core images: the citizen as lone individualist or the citizen as joiner. Drawing on analyses of the historical development of the public...
by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2002 | Groups & Networks
2002, Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, 50: 1-6. While network research has become increasingly important to our understanding of organizations, there is growing speculation that the current structural approach may misspecify the nature of network effects...
by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2001 | Groups & Networks
2001, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 18: 83-106. This study develops a model of the causal impact of social capital on organizational performance, with particular attention to specifying the contingencies that transform some kinds of network ties into...
by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2000 | Groups & Networks
2000, Social Psychology Quarterly, 63 (4): 312-323; with Gary Fine. As sociologists look into the new century for sources of explanatory leverage, we argue that small group research contains untapped theoretical potential. Small groups have been largely ignored as a...
