Showing papers by "Michèle Lamont published in 2013"
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27 Jun 2013TL;DR: Hall et al. as discussed by the authors studied the effects of neoliberalism on social resilience in the developed democracies and found that social resilience on a macro-scale is more important than individual resilience.
Abstract: Introduction Peter A. Hall and Michele Lamont Part I. Neoliberalism: Policy Regimes, International Regimes and Social Effects: 1. The neoliberal era: ideology, policy, and social effects Peter Evans and William H. Sewell, Jr 2. Narratives and regimes of social and human rights: the Jack Pines of the neoliberal era Jane Jenson and Ron Levi 3. Neoliberal multiculturalism? Will Kymlicka Part II. The Social Sources of Individual Resilience: 4. Responses to discrimination and social resilience under neoliberalism: the case of Brazil, Israel, and the United States Michele Lamont, Jessica S. Welburn and Crystal Fleming 5. Stigmatization, neoliberalism, and resilience Leanne S. Son Hing 6. Security, meaning, and the home: conceptualizing multi-scalar resilience in a neoliberal era James Dunn Part III. Social Resilience on a Macro-Scale: 7. Neoliberalism and social resilience in the developed democracies Lucy Barnes and Peter A. Hall 8. Social resilience in the neoliberal era: national differences in population health and development Daniel Keating, Arjumand Siddiqi and Quynh Nguyen Part IV. Communities and Organizations as Sites for Social Resilience: 9. Neoliberalism in Quebec: the response of a small nation under pressure Gerard Bouchard 10. Can communities succeed when states fail them? A case study of early human development and social resilience in a neoliberal era Clyde Hertzman and Arjumand Siddiqi 11. Cultural sources of institutional resilience: lessons from chieftaincy in rural Malawi Ann Swidler 12. The origins and dynamics of organizational resilience: a comparative study of two French labor organizations Marcos Ancelovici.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of a poll made among the members of the editorial and advisory boards of Valuation Studies, focusing on three questions: 1. Why is the study of valuation topical? 2. What speci!c issues related to valuation are the most pressing ones to explore? 3. What sites and methods would be interesting for studying valuation?
Abstract: This article presents the results of a poll made among the members of the editorial and advisory boards of Valuation Studies. The purpose is to overview the topic that is the remit of the new journal. The poll focused on three questions: 1. Why is the study of valuation topical? 2. What speci!c issues related to valuation are the most pressing ones to explore? 3. What sites and methods would be interesting for studying valuation? The answers to these questions provided by sixteen board members form the basis of the article. Based on these answers, it identi!es a number of themes concerning the study of valuation, elaborating on the rationale for attending to valuation, the conceptual challenges linked to this, and the speci!c issues and sites that deserve further attention.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that social actors should be seen as relational entities embedded in social and cultural structures that connect them to others in multifaceted ways, and that understanding those relationships requires a deeper understanding of how institutional and cultural frameworks interact to condition the terrain for social action.
Abstract: Political science can gain from incorporating richer conceptions of social relations into its analyses. In place of atomistic entities endowed with assets but few social relationships, social actors should be seen as relational entities embedded in social and cultural structures that connect them to others in multifaceted ways. Understanding those relationships requires a deeper understanding of how institutional and cultural frameworks interact to condition the terrain for social action. More intensive dialogue with sociology can inform such an understanding. We review the analytical tools cultural sociology now offers those interested in such a perspective and illustrate it in operation in studies of inequalities in population health and the effects of neoliberalism. We close by outlining several issues to which this perspective can usefully be applied, including the problems of understanding social resilience, how societies build collective capacities, and why some institutions remain robust while others deteriorate.
50 citations
01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: Members of stigmatized groups often live with the expectation that they will be overscrutinized, overlooked, underappreciated, misunderstood, and disrespected in the course of their daily lives as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Members of stigmatized groups often live with the expectation that they will be overscrutinized, overlooked, underappreciated, misunderstood, and disrespected in the course of their daily lives. How do they interpret and respond to this lived reality? What resources do they have at their disposal to do so? How are their responses shaped by neoliberalism? How can responses to stigmatization foster social resilience?
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01 Jan 2013
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13 Sep 2013
TL;DR: In this article, the meaning and saliency of confronting, deflecting conflict, educating the ignorant and managing the self of African Americans are discussed. But the authors focus on the meaning of confronting and deflecting conflicts, educating and managing self.
Abstract: 1. Ordinary people doing extraordinary things: responses to stigmatization in comparative perspective Michele Lamont and Nissim Mizrachi 2. The multiple dimensions of racial mixture in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: from whitening to Brazilian negritude Graziella Moraes D. Silva and Elisa P. Reis 3. African Americans respond to stigmatization: the meanings and salience of confronting, deflecting conflict, educating the ignorant and 'managing the self' Crystal M. Fleming, Michele Lamont and Jessica S. Welburn 4. Participatory destigmatization strategies among Palestinian citizens, Ethiopian Jews and Mizrahi Jews in Israel Nissim Mizrachi and Hanna Herzog 5. Between global racial and bounded identity: choice of destigmatization strategies among Ethiopian Jews in Israel Nissim Mizrachi and Adane Zawdu 6. Transforming meanings and group positions: tactics and framing in Anishinaabe-white relations in Northwestern Ontario, Canada Jeffrey S. Denis 7. Name change and destigmatization among Middle Eastern immigrants in Sweden Moa Bursell 8. White cruelty or Republican sins? Competing frames of stigma reversal in French commemorations of slavery Crystal M. Fleming 9. Folk conceptualizations of racism and antiracism in Brazil and South Africa Graziella Moraes D. Silva 10. Stop 'blaming the man': perceptions of inequality and opportunities for success in the Obama era among middle-class African Americans Jessica S. Welburn and Cassi L. Pittman
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01 Jan 2013
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01 Jul 2013
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors revisited How Professors Think through the lens of the evaluative cultures of Spanish peer reviewers and those of American policy experts and found that cognitive autonomy was at the center of Medvetz's comments, which are inspired by his own particularly illuminating study of American think tanks.
Abstract: Revisiting How Professors Think through the lens of the evaluative cultures of Spanish peer reviewers and those of American policy experts raises diverse unanticipated challenges. Below I first discuss the three contributions that consider How Professors Think via cross-national comparisons (Diez Medrano, Lasen, and Valiente) before turning to the discussion of cognitive autonomy at the center of Medvetz’s comments, which are inspired by his own particularly illuminating study of American think tanks (Medvetz 2012). Before proceeding, I wish to thank our four colleagues for making time to seriously think about some of the implications of How Professors Think that I had not previously considered. I am greatly appreciative of their thoughtful contributions, as I am of Alvaro Santana-Acuna and Xavier Coller for suggesting this symposium and for so skillfully orchestrating it. They have created a much valued opportunity for me to reflect on How Professors Think four years after the publication of the book in English, and after that, it has made its way into various international audiences via translations in Korean, Chinese, and soon Spanish. How Professors Think concluded on whether it is desirable and possible for peer review “a la americana” to diffuse beyond U.S. borders. In the last chapter I described some of the conditions that make this type of evaluative practice possible in the United States (focusing on factors such as the significant demographic weight of the U.S. research community, the spatial distance and decentralization of its institutions of higher education, and the lengthy graduate education process that brings students in close contact with mentors who impact their self-concept while diffusing implicit evaluation standards). This chapter also suggested why it would not be reasonable to expect that the same customary rules of evaluation I described to appear in countries where different conditions for scientific work prevail. This has been confirmed in
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01 Jun 2013
TL;DR: In this article, a comparative analysis of the effects of stigmatisation on the resilience social is presented, based on the points suivants: comment interpretent-ils la realite qu’ils vivent et reagissent-il? De quelles ressources disposentils pour ce faire? En quoi leurs reactions sont-elles faconnees par le neo-liberalisme? Comment les reactions a la stigmatisation peuvent-ellé contribuer a la resilience sociale?
Abstract: Les membres de groupes stigmatises s’attendent souvent a ce que l’on scrute leurs moindres faits et gestes, et a etre ignores, rabaisses, incompris et meprises dans leur vie quotidienne. Cet article porte sur une etude comparative qui a porte sur les points suivants : comment interpretent-ils la realite qu’ils vivent et reagissent-ils ? De quelles ressources disposent-ils pour ce faire ? En quoi leurs reactions sont-elles faconnees par le neo-liberalisme ? Comment les reactions a la stigmatisation peuvent-elles contribuer a la resilience sociale ?
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Stockholm School of Economics1, École Normale Supérieure2, University of Western Ontario3, Stockholm University4, Max Planck Society5, Harvard University6, Spanish National Research Council7, University of California, Berkeley8, University College Dublin9, University of Edinburgh10, University of California, Irvine11, Copenhagen Business School12, Paris West University Nanterre La Défense13, University of Oxford14
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of a poll made among the members of the editorial and advisory boards of Valuation Studies, focusing on three questions: 1. Why is the study of valuation topical?2. What specific issues related to valuation are the most pressing ones to explore?3. What sites and methods would be interesting for studying valuation?
Abstract: This article presents the results of a poll made among the members of the editorial and advisory boards of Valuation Studies. The purpose is to overview the topic that is the remit of the new journal. The poll focused on three questions:1. Why is the study of valuation topical?2. What specific issues related to valuation are the most pressing ones to explore?3. What sites and methods would be interesting for studying valuation?The answers to these questions provided by sixteen board members form the basis of the article. Based on these answers, it identifies a number of themes concerning the study of valuation, elaborating on the rationale for attending to valuation, the conceptual challenges linked to this, and the specific issues and sites that deserve further attention.