Emily Erikson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 165782 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Emily Erikson |
| PRENOMES | Emily |
| SOBRENOME | Erikson |
| ASSINATURA | ERIKSON E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2092-4676 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 121 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
More on mission
This comment on the position statement by Aksoy et al. argues that the statement should go further by articulating how their definition of theory as linking micro-components of social behavior to macro-level outcomes can more clearly define what sociological advice to policymakers and activists can and should accomplish.
Embeddedness, status, and groups
Book Reviewers for Volume 130
Michael Sonenscher, Capitalism
It is unlikely that readers interested in the history of economic thought will be surprised to hear that the term “capitalism” is frequently used in a vague and contradictory manner. They may however be chagrined, as I was, to find that the kind of vague gesturing to everything that is bad about the current state of the world often intended when students on campus use the word is largely in keeping with historical usage. Michael Sonenscher demons…
Making Sense
Salvation into Nation
Early modern economic thought is often left out of histories of economic thought, but it was an important inflection point in the development of the modern science of economics. Using network clustering and topic modeling, this research describes the subjects covered in the economic literature of the early modern era and how they change over time using a sample of 2,353 economics texts written from 1550 to 1700s. Topic modeling of the corpus prod…
Fellowship and Freedom
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State-merchant relations and economic thought
The commercially and financially dynamic early modern Dutch Republic experienced a broad expansion of the public sphere and print industry. One topic was largely absent from this boom: trade, commerce and finance. This absence is particularly notable given that the Dutch Republic was widely considered to be the most accomplished site of expertise in those matters. Instead, a discourse attempting to understand the causes and consequences of market…
Power and the People
Structure
The existence of social structure has been a controversial topic in philosophy and the social sciences. This contribution uses perspectives in philosophy and social network research to consider questions surrounding the concept of structure in analytical sociology. We begin by presenting a brief overview of the concept of structure in philosophy. We then consider what has been learned about social structure through empirical research in the field…
Networks, Property, and the Division of Labor
We use a simulation-based method to consider the effect of different network structures on the propensity for economic producers to develop a complementary division of labor. We use a graph-coloring game, in which nodes are given incentives to find a color that does not match their nearest neighbors, to represent the interdependent coordination problems inherent to the division of labor. We find that a decentralized development of a division of l…
A Business of State
A Business of State: Commerce, Politics, and the Birth of the East India Company. Rupali Mishra. Harvard Historical Studies 188. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. x + 412 pp. $35. - Volume 72 Issue 3
Masters of the Mint
Relationalism and Social Networks
Introduction to Events & Networks Symposium
Networks, Institutions, and Uncertainty
We analyze patterns of informal information exchange by the English East India Company's captains to assess the role of relational and institutional governance systems and uncertainty in encouraging information exchange. Using archival data from the emerging early-modern global trade network, we show that uncertainty drove information exchange. Relational-based contract enforcement mechanisms such as small group exchange were largely absent, and …
Dismantling Solidarity
How Group Events Can Shape Network Processes
Social network analysis has trouble distinguishing between group processes in which several people interact concurrently and sequentially unfolding dyadic interactions. This article suggests that there are substantial differences between these two types of interactions and that the concept of events can help distinguish between the two. Examples drawn from economic sociology and collective action demonstrate the different effects that may result …
Companies and the Rise of Economic Thought
Seventeenth-century England was the site of a profound transformation of early economic thought on both qualitative and quantitative dimensions. The authors show that the proliferation of the chartered company in a context of low state representation of merchants played an important role in this shift. They outline the mechanisms through which chartered companies affected publication rates and provide systematic evidence of the impact of companie…
Agency, Identity, and the Emergence of Ritual Experience
We draw from psychological research on meaningful activity to identify the conditions that promote ritual experience among individuals. Specifically, we ask whether feelings of agency and expressions of identity inform the extent to which individuals experience routinized parts of their lives as meaningful rituals. Interviews and a random factorial survey of U.S. citizens demonstrate that the three most significant factors productive of ritualize…
Social Networks and Macrosocial Change
Social networks are heavily implicated in large-scale social transformations. They are both transformed and transformative. We review the ways in which social networks act as agents of change in macrohistorical processes, stressing two distinct theoretical approaches. Formalism analyzes the structure of networks. Relationalism evaluates the linking properties of networks. Using these two approaches to organize the literature, we present the curre…
Chartering Capitalism
Social Networks and Port Traffic in Early Modern Overseas Trade
Individuals engaged in overseas trade in the early modern period often faced high levels of uncertainty regarding their prospects for trade. One way of managing uncertainty is to gather information from others through social interactions, that is, through social networks. Here we consider how social ties impacted trade patterns by analyzing the relationship between port traffic and early modern ship captains’ exposure to information about ports u…
Relationalism Emergent
Between Monopoly and Free Trade
Formalist and Relationalist Theory in Social Network Analysis
Social network research is widely considered atheoretical. In contrast, in this article I argue that network analysis often mixes two distinct theoretical frameworks, creating a logically inconsistent foundation. Relationalism rejects essentialism and a priori categories and insists upon the intersubjectivity of experience and meaning as well as the importance of the content of interactions and their historical setting. Formalism is based on a st…
Malfeasance and the Foundations for Global Trade
Drawing on a remarkable data set compiled from ships’ logs, journals, factory correspondence, ledgers, and reports that provide unusually precise information on each of the 4,572 voyages taken by English traders of the East India Company (hereafter EIC), we describe the EIC trade network over time, from 1601 to 1833. From structural images of voyages organized by shipping seasons, the authors map (over time and space) the emergence of dense, full…
Social Networks and Macrosocial Change
Social networks are heavily implicated in large-scale social transformations. They are both transformed and transformative. We review the ways in which social networks act as agents of change in macrohistorical processes, stressing two distinct theoretical approaches. Formalism analyzes the structure of networks. Relationalism evaluates the linking properties of networks. Using these two approaches to organize the literature, we present the curre…
Central Authority and Order
Strong central authorities are able to effectively manage costly defection, but are unable to adequately address lesser conflicts because of limits to their ability to monitor and enforce. We argue, counterintuitively, that these limitations build cooperation and trust among subordinates: the limitations contribute to the production of order. First, limits to authority leave space for locally informed decentralized enforcement. Second, central au…
Social Networks and Port Traffic in Early Modern Overseas Trade
Individuals engaged in overseas trade in the early modern period often faced high levels of uncertainty regarding their prospects for trade. One way of managing uncertainty is to gather information from others through social interactions, that is, through social networks. Here we consider how social ties impacted trade patterns by analyzing the relationship between port traffic and early modern ship captains’ exposure to information about ports u…
Companies and the Rise of Economic Thought
Seventeenth-century England was the site of a profound transformation of early economic thought on both qualitative and quantitative dimensions. The authors show that the proliferation of the chartered company in a context of low state representation of merchants played an important role in this shift. They outline the mechanisms through which chartered companies affected publication rates and provide systematic evidence of the impact of companie…
How Group Events Can Shape Network Processes
Social network analysis has trouble distinguishing between group processes in which several people interact concurrently and sequentially unfolding dyadic interactions. This article suggests that there are substantial differences between these two types of interactions and that the concept of events can help distinguish between the two. Examples drawn from economic sociology and collective action demonstrate the different effects that may result …
Agency, Identity, and the Emergence of Ritual Experience
We draw from psychological research on meaningful activity to identify the conditions that promote ritual experience among individuals. Specifically, we ask whether feelings of agency and expressions of identity inform the extent to which individuals experience routinized parts of their lives as meaningful rituals. Interviews and a random factorial survey of U.S. citizens demonstrate that the three most significant factors productive of ritualize…
Networks, Institutions, and Uncertainty
We analyze patterns of informal information exchange by the English East India Company's captains to assess the role of relational and institutional governance systems and uncertainty in encouraging information exchange. Using archival data from the emerging early-modern global trade network, we show that uncertainty drove information exchange. Relational-based contract enforcement mechanisms such as small group exchange were largely absent, and …
Anarchy, hierarchy and order
How does order emerge from anarchy? While scholars generally agree that international politics is anarchic, there is much dispute about how anarchy orders relationships. This paper challenges prevailing views by attacking the problem of anarchy from behind. We examine how hierarchy creates order and argue that two mechanisms are responsible. The first is the direct actions of a leviathan; the second is an indirect effect, which counterintuitively…
Dismantling Solidarity
Relationalism Emergent
Malfeasance and the Foundations for Global Trade
Drawing on a remarkable data set compiled from ships’ logs, journals, factory correspondence, ledgers, and reports that provide unusually precise information on each of the 4,572 voyages taken by English traders of the East India Company (hereafter EIC), we describe the EIC trade network over time, from 1601 to 1833. From structural images of voyages organized by shipping seasons, the authors map (over time and space) the emergence of dense, full…
Central Authority and Order
Strong central authorities are able to effectively manage costly defection, but are unable to adequately address lesser conflicts because of limits to their ability to monitor and enforce. We argue, counterintuitively, that these limitations build cooperation and trust among subordinates: the limitations contribute to the production of order. First, limits to authority leave space for locally informed decentralized enforcement. Second, central au…
The Real Network Society
Anarchy, hierarchy and order
How does order emerge from anarchy? While scholars generally agree that international politics is anarchic, there is much dispute about how anarchy orders relationships. This paper challenges prevailing views by attacking the problem of anarchy from behind. We examine how hierarchy creates order and argue that two mechanisms are responsible. The first is the direct actions of a leviathan; the second is an indirect effect, which counterintuitively…
Impossible Engineering
Formalist and Relationalist Theory in Social Network Analysis
Social network research is widely considered atheoretical. In contrast, in this article I argue that network analysis often mixes two distinct theoretical frameworks, creating a logically inconsistent foundation. Relationalism rejects essentialism and a priori categories and insists upon the intersubjectivity of experience and meaning as well as the importance of the content of interactions and their historical setting. Formalism is based on a st…
Between Monopoly and Free Trade
Between Monopoly and Free Trade
The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history. Between Monopoly and Free Trade locates the source of that success in the innovative policy by which the Company's Court of Directors granted employees the right to pursue their own commercial interests while in the firm's employ. Exploring trade network dynamics, decision-making processes, and ports and organizational context, Emily Erikson demonst…
The Eastern Ports
This chapter argues that the English Company was most successful in ports with a large local merchant class already adept at overseas trade. The captains were able to engage in trade because of preexisting financial and commercial networks that were willing and able to accommodate a large influx of small-scale commercial actors (factors, captains, officers, and seamen), as well as the larger interests of the Company itself. Overviews of foreign t…
Social Networks and the East Indiaman
This chapter identifies how organizational context affects individual behavior and the propensity to incorporate information from peers into important operational decisions. The identification of this relationship illuminates, in turn, the larger question of how—or the mechanisms by which—decentralization contributed to the pattern of innovation found in the English Company. The analysis focuses on evaluating the relative importance of different …
Between Monopoly and Free Trade
Chartering Capitalism
Social Networks and Port Traffic in Early Modern Overseas Trade
Individuals engaged in overseas trade in the early modern period often faced high levels of uncertainty regarding their prospects for trade. One way of managing uncertainty is to gather information from others through social interactions, that is, through social networks. Here we consider how social ties impacted trade patterns by analyzing the relationship between port traffic and early modern ship captains’ exposure to information about ports u…
Relationalism Emergent
Agency, Identity, and the Emergence of Ritual Experience
We draw from psychological research on meaningful activity to identify the conditions that promote ritual experience among individuals. Specifically, we ask whether feelings of agency and expressions of identity inform the extent to which individuals experience routinized parts of their lives as meaningful rituals. Interviews and a random factorial survey of U.S. citizens demonstrate that the three most significant factors productive of ritualize…
Social Networks and Macrosocial Change
Social networks are heavily implicated in large-scale social transformations. They are both transformed and transformative. We review the ways in which social networks act as agents of change in macrohistorical processes, stressing two distinct theoretical approaches. Formalism analyzes the structure of networks. Relationalism evaluates the linking properties of networks. Using these two approaches to organize the literature, we present the curre…
Relationalism and Social Networks
Introduction to Events & Networks Symposium
Networks, Institutions, and Uncertainty
We analyze patterns of informal information exchange by the English East India Company's captains to assess the role of relational and institutional governance systems and uncertainty in encouraging information exchange. Using archival data from the emerging early-modern global trade network, we show that uncertainty drove information exchange. Relational-based contract enforcement mechanisms such as small group exchange were largely absent, and …
Dismantling Solidarity
How Group Events Can Shape Network Processes
Social network analysis has trouble distinguishing between group processes in which several people interact concurrently and sequentially unfolding dyadic interactions. This article suggests that there are substantial differences between these two types of interactions and that the concept of events can help distinguish between the two. Examples drawn from economic sociology and collective action demonstrate the different effects that may result …
Companies and the Rise of Economic Thought
Seventeenth-century England was the site of a profound transformation of early economic thought on both qualitative and quantitative dimensions. The authors show that the proliferation of the chartered company in a context of low state representation of merchants played an important role in this shift. They outline the mechanisms through which chartered companies affected publication rates and provide systematic evidence of the impact of companie…
A Business of State
A Business of State: Commerce, Politics, and the Birth of the East India Company. Rupali Mishra. Harvard Historical Studies 188. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. x + 412 pp. $35. - Volume 72 Issue 3
Masters of the Mint
Structure
The existence of social structure has been a controversial topic in philosophy and the social sciences. This contribution uses perspectives in philosophy and social network research to consider questions surrounding the concept of structure in analytical sociology. We begin by presenting a brief overview of the concept of structure in philosophy. We then consider what has been learned about social structure through empirical research in the field…
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