M
Michèle Lamont
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 162
Citations - 18950
Michèle Lamont is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sociology of culture & Racism. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 160 publications receiving 17307 citations. Previous affiliations of Michèle Lamont include Princeton University & University of Michigan.
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The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences
Michèle Lamont,Virág Molnár +1 more
TL;DR: In recent years, the concept of boundaries has been at the center of influential research agendas in anthropology, history, political science, social psychology, and sociology, particularly concerning the study of relational processes as mentioned in this paper.
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Money, Morals, and Manners: The Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class
TL;DR: Lamont's Money, Morals, and Manners as discussed by the authors provides a rare and revealing collective portrait of the upper-middle class, the managers, professionals, entrepreneurs, and experts at the center of power in society.
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Cultural Capital: Allusions, Gaps and Glissandos in Recent TheoreticalDevelopments
Michèle Lamont,Annette Lareau +1 more
TL;DR: The concept of cultural capital has been increasingly used in American sociology to study the impact of cultural reproduction on social reproduction as discussed by the authors, however, much confusion surrounds this concept and it is not clear how cultural capital is turned into profits in America.
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Cultural capital: allusions, gaps and glissandos in recent theoretical developments*
Michèle Lamont,Annette Lareau +1 more
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Toward a Comparative Sociology of Valuation and Evaluation
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.