Select Publications

Light, Ryan and Colin Odden. 2017. “Managing the Boundaries of Taste: Culture, Valuation, and Computational Social Science.” Social Forces. [postprint]

Edelmann, Achim, Moody, James and Ryan Light. 2017. “Disparate Foundations of Scientists‘ Policy Positions on Contentious Biomedical Research.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114:6262-6267. [pdf]

York, Richard and Ryan Light. 2017. “Directional Asymmetry in Sociological Analysis.” Socius 3:1-13.

Light, Ryan and Jeanine Cunningham. 2016. “Oracles of Peace: Topic Modeling, Cultural Opportunity, and the Nobel Prize for Peace, 1902-2012.” Mobilization 21:43:64. [preprint]

adams, jimi and Ryan Light. 2015. “Scientific Consensus, the Law, and Same Sex Parenting Outcomes.” Social Science Research 53:300-310. [pdf]

Light, Ryan. 2015. “Like Strangers We Trust: Identity and Generic Affiliation Networks.” Social Science Research 51:132-144. [postprint]

jimi adams and Ryan Light. 2014. “Mapping Interdisciplinary Fields: Efficiencies, Gaps & Redundancies in HIV/AIDS Research.” PLoS ONE 9(12): e115092

Light, Ryan. 2014. “From Words to Networks and Back: Digital Text, Computational Social Science, and the Case of Presidential Inaugural Addresses.” Social Currents 1(2):111-129. [postprint]

Light, Ryan. 2013. “Gender Inequality and the Structure of Occupational Identity: The Case of Elite Sociological Publication.” Research in the Sociology of Work 24:239-268. [preprint]

Saperstein, Aliya, Andrew M. Penner and Ryan Light. 2013. “Racial Formation in Perspective: Connecting Individuals, Institutions and Power Relations.” Annual Review of Sociology 39:359-378.

Light, Ryan, Vincent J. Roscigno, and Alexanda Kalev.  2011. “Racial Discrimination, Interpretation, and Legitimation at Work.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 634:39-59.