Barry Wellman was an American-Canadian sociologist, born on 30 September 1942, who taught in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto for forty six years, from 1967 to 2013, including a five-year term as the S. D. Clark Professor, and who later co-directed the Toronto-based NetLab Network. His research addressed community sociology, the internet, human-computer interaction and social structure as expressed in social networks within communities and organizations, and he wrote or co-authored more than three hundred articles, chapters, reports and books developing the idea of a paradigm shift from group-centered relations toward what he called networked individualism. He died on 9 July 2024.
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Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account Death DateSourced to the subject's own account Death YearSourced to the subject's own account BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own accountBronx, New York City, United States 1 Nationality / CultureSourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountPioneer of social network analysis in sociology; developed the concept of networked individualism, describing a paradigm shift from group centered community relations to individually centered social networks, and co-directed the NetLab Network at the University of Toronto. 1 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountNetworked: The New Social Operating System (2012, with Lee Rainie, MIT Press) 1 Connections
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Barry Wellman was born and raised in the Grand Concourse and Fordham Road area of the Bronx, New York City.
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His overarching interest was in the paradigm shift from group-centered relations to networked individualism.
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Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman were co-authors of the 2012 prize-winning Networked: The New Social Operating System (MIT Press).
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Barry Wellman (30 September 1942-9 July 2024) was an American-Canadian sociologist and was the co-director of the Toronto-based international NetLab Network.
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After a long illness, Wellman died at the age of 81 on 9 July 2024.
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His graduate work was at Harvard University, where he trained with Chad Gordon, Charles Tilly and Harrison White, and also studied with Roger Brown, Cora Du Bois, George Homans, Alex Inkeles, Florence Kluckhohn, Talcott Parsons and Phillip J.
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