Michèle Lamont
Professor of Sociology
Recent Media Articles
2007, talk at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (Harvard University), entitled "Successful Societies".
June 2007. Rehabilitating the Importance of the Non-cognitive: An Interview with Michèle Lamont International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society (Springer Netherlands)
Spring 2007. "What makes a society succeed?" An adaptation of the introduction to the book Successful Societies: Institutions, Cultural Repertoires and Health, edited by Peter A. Hall and Michele Lamont, the directors of the Successful Societies program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Reach magazine.
"Le mal americain" (with Eloi Laurent). Commentary in Liberation.fr, posted July 6, 2006. Click to http://www.liberation.fr/opinions/rebonds/191556.FR.php .
"France shows its true colors" (with Eloi Laurent). Op-ed in The Boston Globe, June 3, 2006 p. A-11. Reprinted in the International Herald Tribune, June 6, 2006.
Recent and Forthcoming Publications
Forthcoming. "How Culture Matters for the Understanding of Poverty: Enriching our Understanding." With Mario Small, chapter in The Color of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Exist , edited by David Harris and Ann Lin. Russell Sage Foundation.
Forthcoming. "Consumption" (with Virag Molnar). Encyclopedia of Racial and Ethnic Studies. Ellis Cashmore (ed.). London: Routledge.
Forthcoming. "Critère d'évaluation et structures culturelles: Réflections sur un parcours de recherches," Sens de la critique, sens de la justice. Catherine Guaspare, Marc Breviglieri, Claudette Lafaye, and Daniel Tom (eds.). Paris: La Découverte (under review).
Forthcoming, with Patricia White. Workshop on Interdisciplinary Standards for Systematic Qualitative Research. Report of the Workshop. National Science Foundation.
2008, Paul Lichterman, Prudence Carter and Michele Lamont. "Race-bridging for Christ? Conservative Christians and
black-white relations in community life." Revision of paper presented at “The Conservative Christian Movement and
American Democracy," Russell Sage Foundation, organized by Steven Brint and Jean Schroedel, April 27-29, 2007.
2007, with Mark Pachucki and Sabrina Pendergrass. "Boundary processes: Recent theoretical developments and new contributions." Poetics 35(6). December 2007.
2007, with Mario Small. Background paper prepared for the World Report on Cultural Diversity, UNESCO; Cultural Diversity and Poverty Eradication. This paper is also featured at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard.
2007, with Grégoire Mallard and and Joshua Guetzkow. “Fairness as Appropriateness: Negotiating Epistemological Differences in Peer Review.” Science, Technology and Human Values .
2007, with Christopher A. Bail. 2007. "Bridging Boundaries: the Equalization Strategies of Stigmatized Ethno-racial Groups Compared." Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies Working Paper Series, Issue # 154.
2006, with Christopher Bail "Sur les frontières de la reconnaissance. Les catégories internes et externes de l'identité collective." Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales. 2006, 21 (2): 61-90.
2006, with Grégoire Mallard and Joshua Guetzkow Beyond blind faith: overcoming the obstacles to interdisciplinary evaluation Research Evaluation 15 (1): 43-55.
2006. "How French and American Workers Define Cultural Membership," in Inequalities of the World, edited by Goran Therborn. London: Verso. pp. 93-118.
Contact
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