Browsing by Author "Lamont, Michele"
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Addressing Recognition Gaps: Destigmatization and the Reduction of Inequality
Lamont, Michèle (SAGE Publications, 2018-05-21)This Presidential Address offers elements for a systematic and cumulative study of destigmatization, or the process by which low-status groups gain recognition and worth. Contemporary sociologists tend to focus on inequality ... -
African Americans respond to stigmatization: the meanings and salience of confronting, deflecting conflict, educating the ignorant and ‘managing the self’
Fleming, Crystal; Lamont, Michele; Welburn, Jessica (Routledge, 2012)Drawing on interviews with 150 randomly sampled African Americans, we analyse how members of a stigmatized group understand their experience of stigmatization and assess appropriate responses when asked about the best ... -
Assessing France as a Model of Societal Success
Laurent, Éloi; Lamont, Michele (Berghahn Books, 2010) -
Beyond blind faith: overcoming the obstacles to interdisciplinary evaluation
Lamont, Michele; Mallard, Gregoire; Guetzkow, Joshua (Beech Tree Publishing, 2006)This paper examines how panelists serving on interdisciplinary funding panels produce evaluations they perceive as fair, drawing on 81 interviews with panelists serving on multidisciplinary fellowship competitions. We ... -
Beyond the Culture of Poverty: Meaning-Making among Low-Income Population around Family, Neighborhood, and Work
Bell, Monica Clarice; Fosse, Nathan Edward; Lamont, Michele; Rosen, Eva (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-12-19)Meaning-making is an essential feature of social life: as humans make their way through their daily lives, they inevitably interpret themselves, their actions, those of others, and the environment that surround them. Thus, ... -
Bridging cultural sociology and cognitive psychology in three contemporary research programmes
Lamont, Michele; Adler, Laura Claire; Park, Bo Yun; Xiang, Xin (Springer Nature, 2017)Three prominent research programs in cognitive psychology would benefit from a stronger engagement with the cultural context of cognition: studies of poverty focused on scarcity and cognitive bandwidth (CB); of the ... -
Comparing Customary Rules of Fairness: Evaluative Practices in Various Types of Peer Review Panels
Lamont, Michele; Huutoniemi, Katri (University of Chicago Press, 2011) -
Competence and Religion in the Cultural Repertoire of the African American Elite
Lamont, Michele; Fleming, Crystal (Cambridge University Press, 2005)This exploratory study makes a contribution to the literature on antiracism by unpacking the cultural categories through which <i>everyday antiracism</i> is experienced and practiced by extraordinarily successful African ... -
Complementary Rather than Contradictory: Diversity and Excellence in Peer Review and Admissions in American Higher Education
Lamont, Michele; da Silva, Graziella Moraes (Taylor & Francis, 2009)Diversity is largely accepted as a positive value in American society. Nevertheless, policies to encourage diversity, e.g. affirmative action, language policies and legalising illegal immigrants, are still largely disputed, ... -
Cultural Capital and the Liberal Political Attitudes of Professionals: Comment on Brint
Lamont, Michele (University of Chicago Press, 1987) -
Cultural Diversity and Anti-Poverty Policy
Lamont, Michele; Small, Mario (2017-06-09)This article examines how anti-poverty policy has considered the role of culture and how it ought to do so. While some have explained poverty as a function of the presumed cultural deficiency or distinctiveness of the poor, ... -
Cultural Diversity and Poverty Eradication
Lamont, Michele; Small, Mario Luis (2007) -
European Studies as an Intellectual Field: A Pespective from Sociology
Lamont, Michele (Council for European Studies, 2013) -
Expertise Diversification and the Transformation of the Field of Contemporary Chinese Art: 1979-2012
Liu, Joyce Fang Chieh (2013-10-18)The decentralization of cultural production in China coincided with the introduction of economic and political reforms in 1979. The subsequent shift from a system of state propaganda production towards a market-oriented ... -
Fairness as Appropriateness: Negotiating Epistemological Differences in Peer Review
Mallard, Grégoire; Lamont, Michele; Guetzkow, Joshua (Sage Publications, 2009)Epistemological differences fuel continuous and frequently divisive debates in the social sciences and the humanities. Sociologists have yet to consider how such differences affect peer evaluation. The empirical literature ... -
How Culture Matters: Enriching Our Understandings of Poverty
Lamont, Michele; Small, Mario Luis (Russell Sage Foundation, 2008) -
How Has Bourdieu Been Good to Think With? The Case of the United States
Lamont, Michele (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)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 ... -
How to Become a Dominant French Philosopher: The Case of Jacques Derrida
Lamont, Michele (University of Chicago Press, 1986)How can a interpretive theory gain legitimacy in two cultural markets as different as France and the United States? This study examines the intellectual, cultural, institutional, and social conditions of legitimation of ... -
How to Publish, but Most Importantly, Why
Lamont, Michele (2019-05-08)This essay responds to an invitation by the editors of Sociologica to write about publication strategy. -
Introduction (Successful Societies: How Institutions and Culture Affect Health)
Hall, Peter, A.; Lamont, Michele (Cambridge University Press, 2009)