Selected Works
- Union Democracy (1956, with Seymour Martin Lipset and Martin Trow)
- The Adolescent Society (1961)
- Introduction to Mathematical Sociology (1964)
- Equality of Educational Opportunity (1966)
- Youth: Transition to Adulthood (1973)
- High School Achievement (1982)
- Individual Interests and Collective Action (1986)
- Social Theory, Social Research, and a Theory of Action, article in American Journal of Sociology 91: 1309-1335 (1986).
- Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital, article in The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 94, Supplement: Organizations and Institutions: Sociological and Economic Approaches to the Analysis of Social Structure, pp. S95-S120 (1988).
- Foundations of Social Theory (1990)
- Redesigning American Education (1997, with Barbara Schneider, Stephen Plank, Kathryn S. Schiller, Roger Shouse, & Huayin Wang)
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