Showing papers by "Michèle Lamont published in 2012"
TL;DR: The authors discusses North American and European research from the sociology of valuation and evaluation (SVE), a research topic that has attracted considerable attention in recent years, focusing on subprocesses such as categorization and legitimation, conditions that sustain heterarchies and valuation and evaluative practices.
Abstract: This review discusses North American and European research from the sociology of valuation and evaluation (SVE), a research topic that has attracted considerable attention in recent years. The goal is to bring various bodies of work into conversation with one another in order to stimulate more cumulative theory building. This is accomplished by focusing on (a) subprocesses such as categorization and legitimation, (b) the conditions that sustain heterarchies, and (c) valuation and evaluative practices. The article reviews these literatures and provides directions for a future research agenda.
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TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative cross-national exploration of how minority groups respond to stigmatization in a wide variety of contexts is presented, focusing on the range of destigmatization strategies ordinary people adopt.
Abstract: This special issue offers a first systematic qualitative cross-national exploration of how diverse minority groups respond to stigmatization in a wide variety of contexts. This research is the culmination of a coordinated study of stigmatized groups in Brazil, Israel and the USA, as well as of connected research projects conducted in Canada, France, South Africa and Sweden. The issue sheds light on the range of destigmatization strategies ordinary people adopt in the course of their daily life. Articles analyse the cultural frames they mobilize to make sense of their experiences and to determine how to respond; how they negotiate and transform social and symbolic boundaries; and how responses are enabled and constrained by institutions, national ideologies, cultural repertoires and contexts. The similarities and differences across sites provide points of departure for further systematic research, which is particularly needed in light of the challenges for liberal democracy raised by multiculturalism.
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TL;DR: This paper analyzed how members of a stigmatized group understand their experience of stigmatization and assess appropriate responses when asked about the best approach to deal with stigmatization, and about responses to specific incidents.
Abstract: Drawing on interviews with 150 randomly sampled African Americans, we analyse how members of a stigmatized group understand their experience of stigmatization and assess appropriate responses when asked about the best approach to deal with stigmatization and about responses to specific incidents. Combining in-depth interviews with a systematic coding of the data, we make original contributions to the previous literature by identifying the relative salience of modalities and tools for responding. We also examine closely through qualitative data the two most salient modalities of response, ‘confronting’ and ‘deflating’ conflict, the most salient tools, teaching out-group members about African Americans, and ‘the management of the self’, a rationale for deflating conflict that is largely overlooked in previous studies. We find that ‘confronting’ is the more popular modality for responding to stigmatization among African Americans.
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TL;DR: The authors discusses the impact of Bourdieu on modern U.S. sociologists from the perspective of someone who was involved in the process I describe as an active but not fully invested participant.
Abstract: The essay discusses the impact of Bourdieu on modern U.S. sociology. Specifically, I offer five observations about the reception and adoption of Bourdieu by U.S. sociologists from the perspective of someone who was involved in the process I describe as an active but not fully invested participant.
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01 Jul 2012
TL;DR: The study of culture emerged at the forefront of organization studies in the 1980s, emphasizing the importance of private culture in ensuring smooth and predictable employee behavior and perception as mentioned in this paper, and emphasized the need for a "private culture" to ensure predictable and smooth employee behavior.
Abstract: The study of culture emerged at the forefront of organization studies in the 1980s, emphasizing the importance of private culture in ensuring smooth and predictable employee behavior and perception...
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TL;DR: The authors discusses the impact of Bourdieu on modern U.S. sociologists from the perspective of someone who was involved in the process, describing as an active but not fully invested participant.
Abstract: The essay discusses the impact of Bourdieu on modern U.S. sociology. Specifically, I offer five observations about the reception and adoption of Bourdieu by U.S. sociologists from the perspective of someone who was involved in the process. I describe as an active but not fully invested participant.
TL;DR: This paper provided a response to comments offered by OmarLizardo (2011) and AnnMische (2011), with reference to my piece “How Has Bourdieu Been Good to Think With? The Case of the United States” (Lamont, 2011).
Abstract: This essay provides a response to comments offered by OmarLizardo (2011)and AnnMische (2011)with reference to my piece “How Has Bourdieu Been Good to Think With? The Case of the United States” (Lamont, 2011). All essays appear in this issue.