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• 2011 Still Connected: Family and Friends in America Since 1970. Russell Sage Foundation. (Amazon)
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• 2010 Made in America: A Social History of American Culture and Character. University of Chicago Press. (Amazon)
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• 2006 Century of Difference: How America Changed in the Last One Hundred Years (with Hout). Russell Sage Foundation.
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• 1996 Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth (with Hout, Lucas, Sanchez-Jankowski, Swidler and Voss). Princeton University Press
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• 1992 America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940. University of California Press.
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• 1984 The Urban Experience. Second edition. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (Cengage).
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• 1982 To Dwell Among Friends: Personal Networks in Town and City. University of Chicago Press.
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• 1977 Networks and Places: Social Relations in the Urban Setting (with Jackson, Stueve, Gerson, Jones, and Baldassare). Free Press.
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• 1975 Human Aggression and Conflict (with Scherer and Abeles). Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall.

• 2009 "The 2004 GSS Finding of Shrunken Social Networks: An Artifact?" American Sociological Review, 74:4: 657-69.
• • Article (and a reply by McPherson et al) available for personal use.
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• 2009 "Is America Fragmenting?" Annual Review of Sociology 35: 435-55 (with Mattson).
• • Article availabe for personal use.
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• 2008 "Paradoxes of American Individualism." Sociological Forum 23 (June): 363-72.
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• 2008 "What Wealth-Happiness Paradox? A Short Note on the American Case." Journal of Happiness Studies 9 (June): 219-26.
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• 2005 "Bowling Alone: What's the Score?" Social Networks 27 (May):155-67
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• 2004 "Distinguishing the Levels and Dimensions of U.S. Urban Segregation" (with Stockmayer, Stiles, and Hout). Demography 41 (February): 37-59.
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• 2002 "Explaining the Rise of Americans with No Religious Preference: Politics and Generation" (with Hout). American Sociological Review 67 (April):165-90.
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• 2002 "Ever More Rooted Americans." City & Community 1(June): 175-94.

• 2000 "Just How is it that Americans Are Individualistic?" Paper presented to the American Sociological Association.