DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
new brunswick / piscataway
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Paul McLean
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Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1996 Mailing Address:
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| Paul McLean’s research has focused on exploring the connections between multiple kinds of social networks—marriage networks, economic networks, and political patronage networks chiefly—and describing the cultural practices and identities that actors adopt to move within and across these networks. He has examined the development of elaborate strategies of self-presentation and the emergence of a quasi-modern conception of the self in Renaissance Florence in articles (AJS 104,1:51-91 [1998]; CSSH 47, 3:638-64 [2005]) and in a book from Duke University Press. He has also studied Florentine market structure (Theory and Society 26: 209-44 [1997] and AJS 111,4 [2006]) and the political organization of Polish elites (Theory and Society 33:167-212 [2004] as products of multiple-network dynamics. He is a comparative-historical sociologist, with teaching and research interests in the sociology of culture, economic sociology, political sociology, social networks, and the sociology of organizations. | ||
