Social Knowledge in the Making (Pocket)
avCharles Camic, Neil Gross, Michele Lamont
ISBN: 9780226092096 - UTGIVEN: 201110Over the past quarter century, researchers have successfully explored the inner workings of the physical and biological sciences using a variety of social and historical lenses. Inspired by these advances, the contributors to "Social Knowledge in the Making" turn their attention to the social scienc[...]
Cultivating Differences (Häftad)
avMichele Lamont, Marcel Fournier
ISBN: 9780226468143 - UTGIVEN: 1992-11How are boundaries created between groups in society? And what do these boundaries have to do with social inequality? In this pioneering collection of original essays, a group of leading scholars helps set the agenda for the sociology of culture by exploring the factors that push us to segregate and[...]
Money, Morals, and Manners (Pocket)
avMichele Lamont
ISBN: 9780226468174 - UTGIVEN: 199408Drawing on remarkably frank, in-depth interviews with 160 successful men in the United States and France, Michè le Lamont provides a rare and revealing collective portrait of the upper-middle class--the managers, professionals, entrepreneurs, and experts at the center of power in society. Her book [...]
The Dignity of Working Men (Häftad)
avMichele Lamont
ISBN: 9780674009929 - UTGIVEN: 200210Michele Lamont takes us into the world inhabited by working-class men - the world as they understand it. Interviewing black and white working-class men who, because they are not college graduates, have limited access to high-paying jobs and other social benefits, she constructs a revealing portrait [...]
How Professors Think (Häftad)
avMichele Lamont
ISBN: 9780674057333 - UTGIVEN: 201010Excellence. Originality. Intelligence. Everyone in academia stresses quality. But what exactly is it, and how do professors identify it? In the academic evaluation system known as 'peer review', highly respected professors pass judgment, usually confidentially, on the work of others. But only those [...]
Successful Societies (Pocket)
avPeter A. (EDT) Hall, Michele (EDT) Lamont, Peter A. (EDT) Hall
ISBN: 9780521736305 - UTGIVEN: 2009-08Why are some societies more successful than others at promoting individual and collective well-being? This book integrates recent research in social epidemiology with broader perspectives in social science to explore why some societies are more successful than others at securing population health. I[...]
