Peter Kollock (Ph.D, University of Washington) Associate Professor Vice Chair Department of Sociology University of California, Los Angeles

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Areas of Research

• Online Communities and Markets
• Cooperation and Collective Action
• Economic Sociology

My research focuses on cooperation and exchange. I study a wide range of situations in which group members gain by cooperating but where a temptation to behave selfishly exists, examining the factors that encourage or discourage the emergence of cooperation, community, and trade. I also study the social aspects of formal and informal markets. My research methods include experiments, fieldwork, and computer simulations. My recent work has concentrated on studies of online communities and markets.

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Curriculum Vita

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Sociol 133:  Cooperation & Collective Action

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Sociol 172:  The Sociology of Entrepreneurship

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Sociol 197:  The Sociology of Cyberspace

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Selected Papers on Online Communities and Markets

• Kollock, Peter, and E. Russell Braziel. (2006). “How Not to Build an Online Market: The Sociology of Market Microstructure.” Advances in Group Processes: Social Psychology of the Workplace, edited by S. R. Thye and E. J. Lawler. New York: Elsevier Science.

• Kollock, Peter. 1999. "The Production of Trust in Online Markets." Advances in Group Processes (Vol. 16), edited by E. J. Lawler, M. Macy, S. Thyne, and H. A. Walker. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

• Smith, Marc, and Peter Kollock (editors). 1999. Communities in Cyberspace. London: Routledge.

• Kollock, Peter, and Marc Smith. 1999. "Introduction: Communities in Cyberspace."  Pp. 3-25 in Communities in Cyberspace, edited by Marc Smith and Peter Kollock. London: Routledge.

• Kollock, Peter. 1999. "The Economies of Online Cooperation: Gifts and Public Goods in Cyberspace."  Pp. 220-239 in Communities in Cyberspace, edited by Marc Smith and Peter Kollock. London: Routledge.

• Kollock, Peter. 1997. "Market Morphing." Futures Industry 7(7):15-17.

• Kollock, Peter. 1996. "Design Principles for Online Communities." Harvard Conference on the Internet and Society.   Also published in PC Update 15(5): 58-60. June 1998.

• Kollock, Peter, and Marc Smith. 1996. "Managing the Virtual Commons: Cooperation and Conflict in Computer Communities."  Pp. 109-128 in Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, Social, and Cross-Cultural Perspectives, edited by Susan Herring. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

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