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Michèle Lamont

Bio: 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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01 Jul 1996-Poetics
TL;DR: The authors used the culture module of the 1993 General Social Survey to assess the determinants of moral and cultural boundaries in the American population, finding that structural position -education, income, class, and gender - affects the likelihood that individuals draw one type of boundary rather than another, and geographic location and participation in lifestyle clusters play an important role in supplying cultural repertoires that affect the drawing of boundaries.

71 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify how peer reviewers define "good" interdisciplinary research proposals and how they understand the procedures for selecting such proposals, and they adopt a range of tactics and strategies designed to make other reviewers who lack such expertise trust that their judgments are disinterested and unbiased.
Abstract: Knowledge about how reviewers serving on interdisciplinary panels produce evaluations that are perceived as fair is especially lacking. This paper draws on 81 interviews with panelists serving on five multidisciplinary fellowship competitions. We identify how peer reviewers define “good” interdisciplinary research proposals, and how they understand the procedures for selecting such proposals. To produce an evaluation they perceive as fair, panelists must respect the primacy of disciplinary sovereignty, deference to expertise and methodological pluralism. These rules ensure the preponderance of the voices of experts over non-experts in interdisciplinary panels. In addition, panelists adopt a range of tactics and strategies designed to make other reviewers who lack such expertise trust that their judgments are disinterested and unbiased.

69 citations

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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.

61 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, Lamont et al. discuss the challenge of cultural studies and the social construction of'social construction': Notes on 'Teddy bear Patriarchy.'' Pp. 379-98 in From Sociology to Cultural Studies: New Perspectives, edited by Elizabeth Long.
Abstract: MICHELE LAMONT Princeton University Arts Management, Law, and Society 28 (4): 297-313. Mills, C. Wright. 1951. White Collar: The American Middle Classes. New York: Oxford University Press. Mukerji, Chandra. 1997. Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Nelson, Cary, Paula A. Treichler, and Lawrence Grossberg. 1992. "Cultural Studies: An Introduction." Pp. 1-22 in Cultural Studies, edited by Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, and Paula A. Treichler. New York: Routledge. Press, Andrea. 1991. Women Watching Television: Gender, Class, and Generation in the American Television Experience. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Radway, Janice. 1984. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy and Popular Literature. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Riesman, David. 1961. The Lonely Crowd . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Schudson, Michael. 1992. Watergate in American Memory: How We Remember, Forget, and Reconstruct the Past. New York: Basic Books. . 1997. "Cultural Studies and the Social Construction of 'Social Construction': Notes on 'Teddy Bear Patriarchy."' Pp. 379-98 in From Sociology to Cultural Studies: New Perspectives, edited by Elizabeth Long. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Seidman, Steven, ed. 1996. Queer Theory/Sociology. Cambridge: Blackwell. 1997. "Relativizing Sociology: The Challenge of Cultural Studies." Pp. 37-61 in From Sociology to Cultural Studies: New Perspectives, edited by Elizabeth Long. Malden, MA: Blackwell. . 1998. Contested Knowledge: Social Theory in the Postmodern Era. 2d Ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Sewell, William H., Jr. 1992. "A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation." American Journal of Sociology 98: 1-29. . 1999. "The Concept(s) of Culture." Pp. 35-61 in Beyond the Cultural Turn, edited by Victoria E. Bonnell and Lynn Hunt. Berkeley: University of California Press. Tocqueville, Alexis de. [1835]1969. Democracy in America. Translated by George Lawrence. New York: Doubleday. West, Cornel. 1993. Race Matters. Boston: Beacon. Willis, Paul. 1977. Leaming to Labor. New York: Columbia University Press. Wolfe, Alan. 1989. Whose Keeper? Social Science and Moral Obligation. Berkeley: University of California Press. Wolff, Janet. 1999. "Cultural Studies and the Sociology of Culture." Contemporary Sociology 28 (5): 499-507. Wuthnow, Robert. 1987. Meaning and Moral Order. Berkeley: University of California Press. Zerubavel, Eviatar. 1981. Hidden Rhythms: Schedules and Calendars in Social Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

61 citations

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28 Jun 2019-Daedalus
TL;DR: The papers included in this issue are the result of sustained collaborations within the Successful Societies program, which has meet three times a year since 2003 as discussed by the authors, and each team of authors developed their contribution through extensive discussions at meetings of the entire group over two years.
Abstract: The papers included in this issue are the result of sustained collaborations within the Successful Societies program, which has meet three times a year since 2003. Each team of authors developed their contribution through extensive discussions at meetings of the entire group over two years. Program members (Bloemraad, Grusky, Hall, Jenson, Kymlicka, Lamont, Pierson, Polletta, Raibmon, Son Hing, and Wilson) and advisory committee members (Gourevitch, Le Gales, and Markus) have created teams to attack a question of mutual interest. In all cases, authors focus on the core set of questions and theoretical concerns outlined in this introductory essay, and their contributions draw on a continuing conversation among members of the group. This results in a productive yet all too rare conversation drawing on insights from sociology, political science, social psychology, and history.

56 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism are discussed. And the history of European ideas: Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 721-722.

13,842 citations

01 Jan 1982
Abstract: Introduction 1. Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle 2. Images of Relationship 3. Concepts of Self and Morality 4. Crisis and Transition 5. Women's Rights and Women's Judgment 6. Visions of Maturity References Index of Study Participants General Index

7,539 citations

Book
08 Sep 2020
TL;DR: A review of the comparative database from across the behavioral sciences suggests both that there is substantial variability in experimental results across populations and that WEIRD subjects are particularly unusual compared with the rest of the species – frequent outliers.
Abstract: Behavioral scientists routinely publish broad claims about human psychology and behavior in the world's top journals based on samples drawn entirely from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) societies. Researchers - often implicitly - assume that either there is little variation across human populations, or that these "standard subjects" are as representative of the species as any other population. Are these assumptions justified? Here, our review of the comparative database from across the behavioral sciences suggests both that there is substantial variability in experimental results across populations and that WEIRD subjects are particularly unusual compared with the rest of the species - frequent outliers. The domains reviewed include visual perception, fairness, cooperation, spatial reasoning, categorization and inferential induction, moral reasoning, reasoning styles, self-concepts and related motivations, and the heritability of IQ. The findings suggest that members of WEIRD societies, including young children, are among the least representative populations one could find for generalizing about humans. Many of these findings involve domains that are associated with fundamental aspects of psychology, motivation, and behavior - hence, there are no obvious a priori grounds for claiming that a particular behavioral phenomenon is universal based on sampling from a single subpopulation. Overall, these empirical patterns suggests that we need to be less cavalier in addressing questions of human nature on the basis of data drawn from this particularly thin, and rather unusual, slice of humanity. We close by proposing ways to structurally re-organize the behavioral sciences to best tackle these challenges.

6,370 citations

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Leslie McCall1
TL;DR: The authors argue that intersectionality is the most important theoretical contribution women's studies, in conjunction with related fields, has made so far, and they even say that intersectional is a central category of analysis in women’s studies, and that women are perhaps alone in the academy in the extent to which they have embraced intersectionality.
Abstract: Since critics first allegedthat feminism claimed tospeak universally for all women, feminist researchers havebeen acutely aware ofthe limitations of genderas a single analyticalcategory. In fact, feministsare perhaps alone in the academy in theextent to which theyhave embraced intersectionality – the relationshipsamong multiple dimensions andmodalities of social relations and subject formations – as itselfa central category ofanalysis. One could evensay that intersectionality isthe most important theoreticalcontribution that women’s studies,in conjunction with relatedfields, has made sofar.1

4,744 citations