James S. Coleman Distinguished Career Achievement Award Ronald Breiger is an American sociologist and a Regents Professor,[3] a professor of sociology and (by courtesy) government and public policy, an affiliate of the interdisciplinary graduate program in statistics and data science, and an affiliate of the interdisciplinary graduate program in applied mathematics at the University of Arizona.
[6] He received his AB Summa cum Laude at Brandeis University in 1970 with a thesis entitled: Value Conceptions in Early American Sociology.
[7] In 1985-86, Breiger was a fellow of the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences[8] and he was named a Fulbright Senior Scholar for 1987-88.
[11] Beginning in 2000, Breiger devoted considerable attention to elucidating the mutual implications of social network analysis and the sociology of culture.
For instance, in November 2002, Breiger chaired a workshop on dynamic social network modeling and analysis for the Committee on Human Factors of the National Academy of Sciences convened at the request of the Office of Naval Research.