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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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How to Become a Dominant French Philosopher: The Case of Jacques Derrida'
TL;DR: This paper examined the intellectual, cultural, institutional, and social conditions of the legitimation of Derrida's work in two cultural markets as different as France and the United States and developed hypotheses about the process of legitimacy of interpretive theories.
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Boundary Processes: Recent Theoretical Developments and New Contributions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors take stock of the most recent scholarship on symbolic boundaries and how these interact with social boundaries, and highlight key mechanisms which they address, among them: the strategic management of collective identities, cultural classification, the construction of authenticity, moral boundary maintenance, and genre-crossing.
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What is Originality in the Humanities and the Social Sciences
TL;DR: This article analyzed the main criteria used to evaluate scholarship in the humanities and the social sciences: originality, which is defined as using a new approach, theory, method, or data; studying a new topic; doing research in an understudied area; or producing new findings.
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Boundary processes: Recent theoretical developments and new contributions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors take stock of the most recent scholarship on symbolic boundaries and how these interact with social boundaries, and highlight key mechanisms which they address, among them: the strategic management of collective identities, cultural classification, the construction of authenticity, moral boundary maintenance, and genre-crossing.