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  1. Functionaries: Institutional Theory without Institutions

    Article • August 2019, Center for Open Science

    Omar Lizardo, Dustin Stoltz

  2. What can cognitive neuroscience do for cultural sociology?

    Article • June 2019, Center for Open Science

    Omar Lizardo, Dustin Stoltz

  3. What can cognitive neuroscience do for cultural sociology?

    Article • American Journal of Cultural Sociology, June 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Omar Lizardo, Dustin Stoltz

  4. Classes and classification: comment on Chan and Flemmen, Jarness and Roselund

    Article • British Journal of Sociology, June 2019, Wiley

    Omar Lizardo

  5. Simmel’s Dialectic of Form and Content in Recent Work in Cultural Sociology

    Article • The Germanic Review Literature Culture Theory, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Omar Lizardo

  6. Physical Activity Trend eXtraction: A Framework for Extracting Moderate-Vigorous Physical Activity Trends From Wearable Fitness Tracker Data

    Article • JMIR mhealth and uhealth, March 2019, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Omar Lizardo

  7. Institutional Movement Logics and the Changing Shape of the US Social Movement Field, 1960–1995

    Article • Social Forces, January 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Omar Lizardo

  8. What 30 Days Tells Us About 3 Years

    Article • January 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Omar Lizardo

  9. Using big data to examine the effect of urbanism on social networks

    Article • Journal of Urban Affairs, December 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Omar Lizardo, Cheng Wang

  10. Network analysis of the NetHealth data: exploring co-evolution of individuals’ social network positions and physical activities

    Article • Applied Network Science, November 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Omar Lizardo

  11. Editors’ Comment: A Few Guidelines for Quantitative Submissions

    Article • American Sociological Review, October 2018, SAGE Publications

    Omar Lizardo

  12. Specifying the “What” and Separating the “How”: Doings, Sayings, Codes, and Artifacts as the Building Blocks of Institutions

    Article • August 2018, Center for Open Science

    Omar Lizardo

  13. What Are Dual Process Models? Implications for Cultural Analysis in Sociology

    Article • August 2018, Center for Open Science

    Omar Lizardo, Dustin Stoltz

  14. Impact of Attributes on Group Formation

    Article • August 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Omar Lizardo

  15. Physical Activity Trend eXtraction: A Framework for Extracting Moderate-Vigorous Physical Activity Trends From Wearable Fitness Tracker Data (Preprint)

    Article • June 2018, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Omar Lizardo

  16. The mutual specification of genres and audiences: Reflective two-mode centralities in person-to-culture data

    Article • Poetics, June 2018, Elsevier

    Omar Lizardo

  17. Quantifying Subjective Well-Being Using Trends in Weekend Activity

    Article • June 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Omar Lizardo

  18. Deliberate Trust and Intuitive Faith: A Dual-Process Model of Reliance

    Article • Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, January 2018, Wiley

    Omar Lizardo, Dustin Stoltz

  19. Visualizing Bring-backs

    Article • Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, January 2018, SAGE Publications

    Omar Lizardo, Dustin Stoltz

  20. Coevolution of a multilayer node-aligned network whose layers represent different social relations

    Article • Computational Social Networks, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Omar Lizardo

  21. Discovering places of interest using sensor data from smartphones and wearables

    Article • August 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Omar Lizardo

  22. Max Weber’s ideal versus material interest distinction revisited

    Article • European Journal of Social Theory, June 2017, SAGE Publications

    Omar Lizardo, Dustin Stoltz

  23. Cognitive Sociology in France

    Article • The American Sociologist, April 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Omar Lizardo

  24. Improving Cultural Analysis

    Article • American Sociological Review, February 2017, SAGE Publications

    Omar Lizardo

  25. Exploring Compliance

    Article • January 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Omar Lizardo

  26. Influence of Personal Preferences on Link Dynamics in Social Networks

    Article • Complexity, January 2017, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Omar Lizardo, Nitesh Chawla, Boleslaw Szymanski

  27. What Are Dual Process Models? Implications for Cultural Analysis in Sociology

    Article • Sociological Theory, December 2016, SAGE Publications

    Omar Lizardo, Dustin Stoltz

  28. Co-evolution of two networks representing different social relations in NetSense

    Article • November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Omar Lizardo

  29. Why “cultural matters” matter: Culture talk as the mobilization of cultural capital in interaction

    Article • Poetics, October 2016, Elsevier

    Omar Lizardo

  30. 4 The Spread of Opinions in Societies

    Article • September 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Omar Lizardo

  31. Cultural Fragmentation or Acquired Dispositions? A New Approach to Accounting for Patterns of Cultural Change

    Article • Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, August 2016, SAGE Publications

    Omar Lizardo

  32. The Hysteresis Effect: Theorizing Mismatch in Action

    Article • Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, August 2016, Wiley

    Omar Lizardo

  33. Analysis of link formation, persistence and dissolution in NetSense data

    Article • August 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Omar Lizardo

  34. Cultural Symbols and Cultural Power

    Article • Qualitative Sociology, April 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Omar Lizardo

  35. Cultural Objects as Prisms

    Article • Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, April 2016, SAGE Publications

    Omar Lizardo

  36. A Collective Object for the Sociology of Morality ProjectThe Moral Background: An Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics, by AbendGabriel. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014. 416 pp. $29.95 cloth. ISBN: 9780691171128.

    Article • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, February 2016, SAGE Publications

    Omar Lizardo

  37. Integrating “standard” residents into “non-standard” communities: a longitudinal analysis of social capital in a new urbanist development

    Article • Journal of Urbanism International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, February 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Omar Lizardo

  38. Experiences measuring sleep and physical activity patterns across a large college cohort with fitbits

    Article • January 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Omar Lizardo

  39. The End of Symbolic Exclusion? The Rise of "Categorical Tolerance" in the Musical Tastes of Americans: 1993 -- 2012.

    Article • Sociological Science, January 2016, Society for Sociological Science

    Omar Lizardo

  40. Cultural Theory

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Omar Lizardo

  41. Meeting the Challenges of a 21st-Century Flagship Journal

    Article • American Sociological Review, December 2015, SAGE Publications

    Omar Lizardo

  42. Social Affiliation from Religious Disaffiliation: Evidence of Selective Mixing Among Youth with No Religious Preference During the Transition to College

    Article • Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, December 2015, Wiley

    Omar Lizardo

  43. Musical taste and patterns of symbolic exclusion in the United States 1993–2012: Generational dynamics of differentiation and continuity

    Article • Poetics, December 2015, Elsevier

    Omar Lizardo

  44. Beyond World Images

    Article • Sociological Theory, March 2015, SAGE Publications

    Omar Lizardo

  45. An Institutional Logics Approach to the Analysis of Social Movement Fields

    Article • Social Currents, February 2015, SAGE Publications

    Omar Lizardo

  46. Analysis of Opinion Evolution in a Multi-cultural Student Social Network

    Article • Procedia Manufacturing, January 2015, Elsevier

    Omar Lizardo

  47. Culture, Cognition and Embodiment

    Article • January 2015, Elsevier

    Omar Lizardo

  48. Beyond the Comtean Schema: The Sociology of Culture and Cognition Versus Cognitive Social Science

    Article • Sociological Forum, December 2014, Wiley

    Omar Lizardo

  49. Algorithms for generating large-scale clustered random graphs

    Article • Network Science, November 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Omar Lizardo

  50. Triadic evolution in a large-scale mobile phone network

    Article • Journal of Complex Networks, July 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Omar Lizardo

  51. How Organizational Theory can Help Network Theorizing: Linking Structure and Dynamics via Cross-Level Analogies

    Article • July 2014, Emerald

    Omar Lizardo

  52. Omnivorousness as the bridging of cultural holes: A measurement strategy

    Article • Theory and Society, May 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Omar Lizardo

  53. Localizing Cultural Phenomena by Specifying Social Psychological Mechanisms

    Article • Social Psychology Quarterly, May 2014, SAGE Publications

    Omar Lizardo

  54. Taste and the Logic of Practice in Distinction

    Article • Czech Sociological Review, January 2014, Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

    Omar Lizardo

  55. Lessons learned from the netsense smartphone study

    Article • ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, August 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Omar Lizardo

  56. Embarrassment and Social Organization: A Multiple Identities Model

    Article • Social Forces, June 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Omar Lizardo

  57. The Legacy of Pierre Bourdieu: Critical Essays

    Article • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, April 2013, SAGE Publications

    Omar Lizardo

  58. A dyadic reciprocity index for repeated interaction networks

    Article • Network Science, April 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Omar Lizardo

  59. How Macro-Historical Change Shapes Cultural Taste

    Article • American Sociological Review, March 2013, SAGE Publications

    Omar Lizardo

  60. Variety in cultural choice and the activation of social ties

    Article • Social Science Research, March 2013, Elsevier

    Omar Lizardo

  61. Re-conceptualizing Abstract Conceptualization in Social Theory: The Case of the “Structure” Concept

    Article • Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, January 2013, Wiley

    Omar Lizardo

  62. Lessons learned from the netsense smartphone study

    Article • January 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Omar Lizardo

  63. Reconceptualizing and Theorizing “Omnivorousness”

    Article • Sociological Theory, December 2012, SAGE Publications

    Omar Lizardo

  64. Schmaus’s Functionalist Approach to the Explanation of Social Facts

    Article • Philosophy of the Social Sciences, September 2012, SAGE Publications

    Omar Lizardo

  65. Review of "Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization," by John R. Searle

    Article • Journal of World-Systems Research, August 2012, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Omar Lizardo

  66. Poe Yu-Ze Wan: Reframing the Social: Emergentist Systemism and Social Theory

    Article • Science & Education, July 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Omar Lizardo

  67. The Resilience of Life: On Simmel’s Last TestamentThe View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays, with Journal Aphorisms, by SimmelGeorg. Translated by AndrewsJohn A. Y.LevineDonald N., with an introduction by LevineDonald N.SilverDaniel. Chicago, IL: Univ...

    Article • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, May 2012, SAGE Publications

    Omar Lizardo

  68. The Three Phases of Bourdieu’s U.S. Reception: Comment on Lamont

    Article • Sociological Forum, February 2012, Wiley

    Omar Lizardo

  69. The conceptual bases of metaphors of dirt and cleanliness in moral and non-moral reasoning

    Article • Cognitive Linguistics, January 2012, De Gruyter

    Omar Lizardo

  70. Predictors of short-term decay of cell phone contacts in a large scale communication network

    Article • Social Networks, October 2011, Elsevier

    Omar Lizardo

  71. Cultural Correlates of Ego-Network Closure

    Article • Sociological Perspectives, September 2011, SAGE Publications

    Omar Lizardo

  72. Pierre Bourdieu as a Post-cultural Theorist

    Article • Cultural Sociology, March 2011, SAGE Publications

    Omar Lizardo

  73. Beyond the antinomies of structure: Levi-Strauss, Giddens, Bourdieu, and Sewell

    Article • Theory and Society, October 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Omar Lizardo

  74. Book review: Mark Juergensmeyer, Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State from Christian Militias to Al Qaeda. University of California Press: Berkeley, CA, 2009; ISBN 9780520261570

    Article • International Journal of Comparative Sociology, September 2010, SAGE Publications

    Omar Lizardo

  75. Occupational Status and the Experience of Anger

    Article • Social Forces, July 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Omar Lizardo

  76. Can Cultural Worldviews Influence Network Composition?

    Article • Social Forces, June 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Omar Lizardo

  77. Skills, toolkits, contexts and institutions: Clarifying the relationship between different approaches to cognition in cultural sociology

    Article • Poetics, April 2010, Elsevier

    Omar Lizardo

  78. Taking Cognitive Dualism Seriously: Revisiting the Durkheim-Spencer Debate on the Rise of Individualism

    Article • Sociological Perspectives, December 2009, SAGE Publications

    Omar Lizardo

  79. Is a “Special Psychology” of Practice Possible?

    Article • Theory & Psychology, December 2009, SAGE Publications

    Omar Lizardo

  80. The Devil as Cognitive Mapping

    Article • Rethinking Marxism, October 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Omar Lizardo

  81. A Power-Control Theory of Gender and Religiosity

    Article • Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, June 2009, Wiley

    Omar Lizardo

  82. Rescuing the Baby from the Bathwater: Continuing the Conversation on Gender, Risk, and Religiosity

    Article • Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, June 2009, Wiley

    Omar Lizardo

  83. Formalism, Behavioral Realism and the Interdisciplinary Challenge in Sociological Theory

    Article • Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, March 2009, Wiley

    Omar Lizardo

  84. Highbrow omnivorousness on the small screen?

    Article • Poetics, February 2009, Elsevier

    Omar Lizardo

  85. The comparative analysis of organizational forms: Considering field and ecological approaches

    Article • January 2009, Emerald

    Omar Lizardo

  86. Exotic Commodities: Modern Objects and Everyday Life in China. By Frank Dikotter. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. Pp. 384. $38.00 (cloth).

    Article • American Journal of Sociology, September 2008, University of Chicago Press

    Omar Lizardo

  87. Defining and Theorizing Terrorism: A Global Actor-Centered Approach

    Article • Journal of World-Systems Research, August 2008, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Omar Lizardo

  88. Cultural Consumption in the Fine and Popular Arts Realms

    Article • Sociology Compass, March 2008, Wiley

    Omar Lizardo

  89. Generations, Identities, and the Collective Memory of Che Guevara1

    Article • Sociological Forum, October 2007, Wiley

    Omar Lizardo

  90. "Mirror Neurons," Collective Objects and the Problem of Transmission: Reconsidering Stephen Turner's Critique of Practice Theory

    Article • Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, September 2007, Wiley

    Omar Lizardo

  91. Review: Terrorism: Stephen Graham, ed., Cities, War and Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004, 384 pp., ISBN 1405115742 (hbk), US$94.95, 1405115750 (pbk), US$39.95

    Article • International Sociology, September 2007, SAGE Publications

    Omar Lizardo

  92. Fight Club, or the Cultural Contradictions of Late Capitalism

    Article • Journal for Cultural Research, July 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Omar Lizardo

  93. Book Review: Organs without Bodies: On Deleuže and Consequences by Slavoj Žižek New York: Routledge, 2003 Reviewed by Omar Ližardo

    Article • Theory Culture & Society, July 2007, SAGE Publications

    Omar Lizardo

  94. How Cultural Tastes Shape Personal Networks

    Article • American Sociological Review, October 2006, SAGE Publications

    Omar Lizardo

  95. The Effect of Economic and Cultural Globalization on Anti-U.S. Transnational Terrorism 1971 2000*

    Article • Journal of World-Systems Research, February 2006, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Omar Lizardo

  96. Review of "Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants and States in the Postcolonial World," by Blom, Hansen, and Finn Stepputat, eds.

    Article • Journal of World-Systems Research, February 2006, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Omar Lizardo

  97. The puzzle of women's “highbrow” culture consumption: Integrating gender and work into Bourdieu's class theory of taste

    Article • Poetics, February 2006, Elsevier

    Omar Lizardo

  98. Can cultural capital theory be reconsidered in the light of world polity institutionalism? Evidence from Spain

    Article • Poetics, April 2005, Elsevier

    Omar Lizardo

  99. The Cognitive Origins of Bourdieu's Habitus

    Article • Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, December 2004, Wiley

    Omar Lizardo

  100. The Emerging Monoculture

    Article • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, July 2004, SAGE Publications

    Omar Lizardo

  101. International Terrorism and the World-System

    Article • Sociological Theory, March 2004, SAGE Publications

    Omar Lizardo

  102. Review of "The Empire of Disorder", by Alain Joxe

    Article • Journal of World-Systems Research, February 2003, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Omar Lizardo

  103. Culture and stratification

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Omar Lizardo