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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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TL;DR: The authors explored collective definitions of the French nation and its internal diversity, expressed through nationalism, changing relationship between the local and the national, and the identity crisis that followed the Americanization of France, increased Muslim immigration and integration, symbolized, for example, by the European Economic Union.
Abstract: American scholars working on France have long been interested in exploring France's national identity and cultural specificity. Stanley Hoffman's classic In Search of France is one of the most important benchmarks in this literature.' More recently, social scientists have renewed their interest in these issues, exploring collective definitions of the French nation and its internal diversity,2 French national identity as expressed through nationalism,3 the changing relationship between the local and the national,4 the identity crisis that followed the Americanization of France, increased Muslim immigration and integration, and the multiplication of transnational identities, symbolized, for example, by the European Economic Union.5 France's

48 citations

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TL;DR: This article developed a social identity perspective to the study of consumption and explored the interplay of these definitions in the realm of consumption, using interviews with marketing professionals who specialize in the African-American market segment.
Abstract: This article develops a ‘social identity’ perspective to the study of consumption. It builds on Richard Jenkins’ distinction between internal and external definitions of collective identity and explores the interplay of these definitions in the realm of consumption. Evidence is collected from interviews with marketing professionals who specialize in the African-American market segment to show that this theoretical approach complements and improves on existing approaches. Marketing professionals’ interpretations of the black consumer’s distinctiveness are used to map the twin processes of internal and external definitions of collective identity for African-Americans. The interviews suggest that marketing professionals (1) actively shape the meanings of the category of ‘the black consumer’ for the public at large; (2) promote powerful normative models of collective identity that equate social membership with conspicuous consumption; (3) believe that African-Americans use consumption to defy racism and share collective identities most valued in American society (e.g. middle-class members.

46 citations

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01 Jun 2005
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse les changes dans la categorisation of l'identite collective des groups stigmatised en Israel, en Irlande du Nord, au Quebec and au Bresil.
Abstract: Faisant appel aux etudes recentes portant sur la reconnaissance et l’identite sociale, nous analysons les changements dans la categorisation de l’identite collective des groupes stigmatises en Israel, en Irlande du Nord, au Quebec et au Bresil. Alors que la litterature sur la reconnaissance tend a presumer une opposition nette entre « nous » et « eux », l’analyse de la litterature empirique demontre la complexification et la multiplication des categories d’identite. Dans les quatre cas nous avons observe le processus de reconnaissance, en explorant les transformations de la signification des frontieres internes et externes de l’identite collective pour ses membres ainsi que pour ceux qui lui sont exterieurs. Nous soutenons que la nature conditionnelle de la reconnaissance devrait conduire les chercheurs a considerer non seulement les composantes normatives du conflit ethnique mais aussi, en leur accordant une importance particuliere, le langage et la categorisation qui fondent ce type de debat.

46 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

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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