Arnout van de Rijt (born March 29, 1978) is a Dutch sociologist. He studied music at the

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and

sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...

Utrecht University Utrecht University (UU; nl, Universiteit Utrecht, formerly ''Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht'') is a public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands. Established , it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2018, it had an enrollme ...

. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from

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in 2007 and worked until 2016 as Assistant and Associate Professor of Sociology at

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. Since 2016 he has worked as Professor of Sociology at Utrecht University. In 2018 he was elected member of the

European Academy of Sociology The European Academy of Sociology (EAS) is a fellowship of scholars with expertise in different areas of sociology. It wants to promote particular standards in sociology. EAS was founded in 2000 and Raymond Boudon was its first President. Subsequen ...

. He joined the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the

European University Institute The European University Institute (EUI) is an international postgraduate and post-doctoral teaching and research institute and an independent body of the European Union with juridical personality, established by the member states to contribu ...

(EUI) in September of 2019. He has served as president of the International Network of Analytical Sociology since 2021. He is co-editor-in-chief of the journal ''Sociological Science''.

Awards

van de Rijt has published extensively in various areas within sociology including

social networks A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors. The social network perspective provides a set of methods for an ...

collective action Collective action refers to action taken together by a group of people whose goal is to enhance their condition and achieve a common objective. It is a term that has formulations and theories in many areas of the social sciences including psych ...

mathematical sociology Mathematical sociology or the sociology of mathematics is an interdisciplinary field of research concerned both with the use of mathematics within sociological research as well as research into the relationships that exist between maths and socie ...

, and

computational Computation is any type of arithmetic or non-arithmetic calculation that follows a well-defined model (e.g., an algorithm). Mechanical or electronic devices (or, historically, people) that perform computations are known as ''computers''. An espe ...

and experimental methods. In 2010 he was awarded the Lynton Freeman award from the

International Network for Social Network Analysis The International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) is a professional academic association of researchers and practitioners of social network analysis. Members have interests in social networks as a new theoretical paradigm, in methodologi ...

and in 2017 the Raymond Boudon prize from the

Publications

* Self-Correcting Dynamics in Social Influence Processes. ''American Journal of Sociology'', 2019, ''124''(5), 1468-1495. * The Matthew effect in science funding. ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences'', 2018, ''115''(19), 4887-4890. * A paper ceiling: Explaining the persistent underrepresentation of women in printed news. ''American Sociological Review'', 2015, ''80''(5), 960-984 * Field experiments of success-breeds-success dynamics. ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences'', 2014,''111''(19), 6934-6939. * Only 15 minutes? The social stratification of fame in printed media. ''American Sociological Review'', 2013. ''78''(2), 266-289. * Neighborhood chance and neighborhood change: A comment on Bruch and Mare. ''American Journal of Sociology'', 2009, ''114''(4), 1166-1180. * Dynamics of networks if everyone strives for structural holes. ''American Journal of Sociology'', 2008, ''114''(2), 371-407.

References

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