Michèle Lamont

Harvard University - Department of Sociology

Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies

33 Kirkland Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

United States

  • Harvard University - Department of Sociology

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Cultural Capital: Allusions, Gaps and Glissandos in Recent Theoretical Developments

Sociological Theory, 6(2): 153-168, 1988
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 18 Aug 2012
Michèle Lamont and Annette Lareau
Harvard University - Department of Sociology and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences

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The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences

Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 28 (2002), pp. 167-195
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 18 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 12 May 2016
Michèle Lamont and Virág Molnár
Harvard University - Department of Sociology and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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culture, identity, inequality, community, borders

The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences

Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 28, 2002
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 18 Aug 2012
Michèle Lamont and Virág Molnár
Harvard University - Department of Sociology and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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culture, identity, inequality, community, borders

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Reconsidering Culture and Poverty

ANNALS, AAPSS, 629, May 2010
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 18 Aug 2012
Mario Luis Small, David J. Harding and Michèle Lamont
University of Chicago, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Population Studies Center and Harvard University - Department of Sociology
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Valuation Studies? Our Collective Two Cents

Poll article from the editorial board (main authors: H. Kjellberg and A. Mallard), Valuation Studies, 2013, vol.1, issue 1, p.11-30., HEC Paris Research Paper No. ACC-2013-993
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 03 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2013
Hans Kjellberg, Alexandre Mallard, Diane-Laure Arjaliès, Patrik Aspers, Stefan Beljean, Alexandra Bidet, Alberto Corsin, Emmanuel Didier, Marion Fourcade, Susi Geiger, Klaus Hoeyer, Michèle Lamont, Donald MacKenzie, Bill Maurer, Jan Mouritsen, Ebba Sjögren, Kjell Tryggestad, François Vatin and Steve Woolgar
Stockholm School of Economics - Department of Marketing and Strategy, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris - Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), Ivey Business School at Western University, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Harvard University, Independent, Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), University of California, Berkeley - Department of Sociology, University College Dublin (UCD), Independent, Harvard University - Department of Sociology, University of Edinburgh - School of Social and Political Science, University of California, Irvine - Department of Anthropology, Copenhagen Business School - Department of Operations Management, HHS, Independent, Université Paris X Nanterre and University of Oxford - Said Business School
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value as noun and verb, valuation processes, topicality of valuation, conceptual challenges, sites of valuation, research agenda

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Trump's Electoral Speeches and His Appeal to the American White Working Class

Forthcoming, the British Journal of Sociology
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 27 Sep 2017
Michèle Lamont, Bo Yun Park and Elena Ayala-Hurtado
Harvard University - Department of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard Univeristy and Harvard University
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Recognition Gap, White Working Class, Moral Boundaries, 2016 US Presidential Election, Donald Trump

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How Culture Matters: Enriching Our Understanding of Poverty

In The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist. (Harris, David, Lin, Ann, Eds.).:76-102.: Russell Sage Foundation, 2008
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 18 Aug 2012
Michèle Lamont and Mario Luis Small
Harvard University - Department of Sociology and University of Chicago
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Introduction - Successful Societies: How Institutions and Culture Affect Health

Successful Societies: How Institutions and Culture Affect Health, M. Lamont and P. Hall, eds., Cambridge University Press, August 2009
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 24 Jul 2012
Michèle Lamont and Peter Hall
Harvard University - Department of Sociology and Harvard University
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How to Become a Dominant French Philosopher: The Case of Jacques Derrida

American Journal of Sociology, 93(3): 584-622, 1987
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 18 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 12 May 2016
Michèle Lamont
Harvard University - Department of Sociology
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Bridging Cultural Sociology and Cognitive Psychology in Three Contemporary Research Programs

Forthcoming, Nature Human Behavior
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 11 Nov 2017
Michèle Lamont, Laura Adler, Bo Yun Park and Xin Xiang
Harvard University - Department of Sociology, Harvard University, Department of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard Univeristy and Harvard University - Harvard Graduate School of Education
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cultural repertoires, scarcity, cognitive bandwidth, dual-process model of moral judgment, implicit association test

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What Trump's Campaign Speeches Show About His Lasting Appeal to the White Working Class

Forthcoming, Harvard Business Review
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 11 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 09 Jun 2018
Michèle Lamont, Elena Ayala-Hurtado and Bo Yun Park
Harvard University - Department of Sociology, Harvard University and Department of Sociology, Harvard Univeristy
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Trump, 2016 US Presidential Election, White Working Class

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What is Originality in the Humanities and the Social Sciences?

American Sociological Review, 69(2): 190-212, 2004
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 18 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2017
Joshua Guetzkow, Michèle Lamont and Gregoire Mallard
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law, Harvard University - Department of Sociology and Graduate Institute of International Studies
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How Has Bourdieu Been Good to Think With? The Case of the United States

Sociological Forum, Vol. 27, No. 1, March 2012
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 18 Aug 2012
Michèle Lamont
Harvard University - Department of Sociology
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boundaries, Bourdieu, class, cognition, culture, theory

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Inequality Generation and Persistence as Multidimensional Processes: An Interdisciplinary Agenda

Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Science 148 (3), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 13 May 2019
Michèle Lamont and Paul Pierson
Harvard University - Department of Sociology and University of California, Berkeley
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Prisms of Inequality: Moral Boundaries, Exclusion, and Academic Evaluation

Praemium Erasmianum Essay 2017, ISBN: 978-90-77973-13-4
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 27 Dec 2017
Michèle Lamont
Harvard University - Department of Sociology
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How Blacks Use Consumption to Shape Their Collective Identity

Journal of Consumer Culture 1(1): 31-45, 2001
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 18 Aug 2012
Michèle Lamont and Virág Molnár
Harvard University - Department of Sociology and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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advertising, African-Americans, consumption, cultural boundaries and distinction, race, social identity

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From ‘Having’ to ‘Being’: Self-Worth and the Current Crisis of American Society

The British Journal of Sociology. 70(3): 660-707, 2019
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 26 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2019
Michèle Lamont
Harvard University - Department of Sociology
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Boundary Processes: Recent Theoretical Developments and New Contributions

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 12 May 2016
Mark A. Pachucki, Sabrina Pendergrass and Michèle Lamont
Harvard University, Harvard University and Harvard University - Department of Sociology
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Neoliberalism and Symbolic Boundaries in Europe Global Diffusion, Local Context, Regional Variation

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 2: 1-8, 2016
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 24 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 28 Feb 2016
Jonathan Mijs, Elyas Bakhtiari and Michèle Lamont
Harvard University, Students, Boston University, Students and Harvard University - Department of Sociology
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neoliberalism, inequality, europe, symbolic boundaries

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For a 'Sociology as a Team Sport'

The British Journal of Sociology. 70(3): 769-779, 2019
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 26 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2019
Michèle Lamont
Harvard University - Department of Sociology
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Shared Cognitive–Emotional–Interactional Platforms: Markers and Conditions for Successful Interdisciplinary Collaborations

Science, Technology and Human Values, 1-42, 2015
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 09 Jun 2018
Veronica Boix Mansilla, Michèle Lamont and Kyoko Sato
Harvard University - Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University - Department of Sociology and Stanford University
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interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary research, collaboration, disciplines, disciplinary culture, interdisciplinary cognition, knowledge production, emotion and cognition, boundary work, research evaluation

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How Can Cultural Sociology Help Us Understand Contemporary Chinese Society?

“Cultural Sociology and China” special issue, Chinese Journal of Sociology (2018) 5:15
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 30 Jan 2019
Michèle Lamont and Amy Tsang
Harvard University - Department of Sociology and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Cultural Sociology, China, Sociology of Knowledge

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Ordinary Cosmopolitanisms: Strategies for Bridging Racial Boundaries Among Working-Class Men

Theory Culture Society, Vol. 19, No. 4, p. 1, 2002
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 18 Aug 2012
Michèle Lamont and Sada Aksartova
Harvard University - Department of Sociology and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Membership without Social Citizenship? Deservingness and Redistribution as Grounds for Equality

Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Science 148 (3), Forthcoming
Posted: 06 May 2019 Last Revised: 20 May 2019
Michèle Lamont, Irene Bloemraad, Will Kymlicka and Leanne Son Hing
Harvard University - Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Sociology, Queen's University and University of Guelph

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Addressing Recognition Gaps: Destigmatization and the Reduction of Inequality

American Sociological Review, Forthcoming
Posted: 02 Apr 2018
Michèle Lamont
Harvard University - Department of Sociology

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2017 Presidential Address, Destigmatization, Recognition Gaps, Worth

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Methodological Pluralism and the Possibilities and Limits of Interviewing

Qual Sociol, DOI 10.1007/s11133-014-9274-z
Posted: 13 May 2016
Michèle Lamont and Ann Swidler
Harvard University - Department of Sociology and University of California, Berkeley

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Interviewing, Ethnography, Methodology, Cultural sociology, Methodological pluralism, Theory

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Why Social Relations Matter for Politics and Successful Societies

Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 16, pp. 49-71, 2013
Posted: 15 May 2013
Peter Hall and Michèle Lamont
Harvard University and Harvard University - Department of Sociology

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Toward a Comparative Sociology of Valuation and Evaluation

Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 38, pp. 201-221, 2012
Posted: 16 Jul 2012
Michèle Lamont
Harvard University - Department of Sociology

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Social Resilience in a Neo-Liberal Era

APSA 2012 Annual Meeting Paper
Posted: 14 Jul 2012
Michèle Lamont
Harvard University - Department of Sociology

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How to Publish, but Most Importantly, Why

Sociologica 13(1):33–35 (2019)
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 06 Jun 2019
Michèle Lamont
Harvard University - Department of Sociology
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The World Is not a Field – An Interview with Michèle Lamont

Sociologisk Forskning 56(2): 167-179, 2019
Posted: 26 Jul 2019
Michèle Lamont
Harvard University - Department of Sociology

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Michèle Lamont, Bourdieu, symbolic boundaries, morality, STS, evaluation, sociology profession