Arnout van de Rijt is an Assistant Professor of Sociology. His research interests include Social Networks, Immigration, and Intimate Relations.

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Arnout van de Rijt, David Siegel and Michael Macy. 2009. "Neighborhood Chance and Neighborhood Change: Comment on Bruch and Mare". American Journal of Sociology 114(4):1166-80.

Vincent Buskens and Arnout van de Rijt. 2008. "Dynamics of Networks if Everyone Strives for Structural Holes." American Journal of Sociology 114(2):371-407. *This article won the 2009 Prize for Best Article from the European Academy of Sociology.
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Arnout van de Rijt and Michael Macy. 2009. The Problem of Order: Egoism or Autonomy?" Advances in Group Processes 26:25-51.

Gonul Dogan, Marcel van Assen, Arnout van de Rijt, and Vincent Buskens. 2009. "The Stability of Exchange Networks." Social Networks 31(2):118-25.

Arnout van de Rijt and Marcel van Assen. 2008. "Theories of Network Exchange: Anomalies, Desirable Properties, and Critical Networks." Social Networks 30(3):259-71.

Arnout van de Rijt, Xiaomeng Ban, and Rik Sarkar. 2008. "Effective Networking when Connections are Invisible." Industrial and Corporate Change 17(5):945-52.

Vincent Buskens and Arnout van de Rijt. 2008 "Sequential Power Dependence Theory". In Journal of Mathematical Sociology 32(2):110-28.

Marcel van Assen and Arnout van de Rijt. 2007. "Dynamic Exchange Networks." Social Networks 29(2):266-78.

Arnout van de Rijt and Michael W. Macy. 2006. "Power and Dependence in Intimate Exchange." Social Forces 84(3):1455-70.

Arnout van de Rijt and Vincent Buskens. 2006. "Trust in Intimate Relationships. The Increased Importance of Embeddedness for Marriage in the United States." Rationality and Society 18(2):123-56.

Michael W. Macy and Arnout van de Rijt. 2006. "Ethnic Preferences and Residential Segregation. Theoretical Explorations beyond Detroit." Journal of Mathematical Sociology 30(3-4):289-98.

COURSES:

SOC 201 Research Methods (undergraduate)
SOC 362 Contemporary Sociological Theory (undergraduate)
SOC 506 Contemporary Sociological Theory (graduate)
SOC 595 Social Networks (graduate)