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Publication How to Publish, but Most Importantly, Why(2019-05-08) Lamont, MicheleThis essay responds to an invitation by the editors of Sociologica to write about publication strategy.Publication Addressing Recognition Gaps: Destigmatization and the Reduction of Inequality(SAGE Publications, 2018-05-21) Lamont, MicheleThis 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 in the distribution of resources, such as occupation, education, and wealth. Complementing this research, this address draws attention to “recognition gaps,” defined as disparities in worth and cultural membership between groups in a society. Drawing on research I have conducted, I first describe how neoliberalism promotes growing recognition gaps. Then, drawing on research on stigmatized groups across several societies, I analyze how experiences of stigma and destigmatization are enabled and constrained by various contextual factors and actors, including institutions, cultural repertoires, knowledge workers, and social movements activists. I conclude by proposing a research agenda for the sociology of recognition and destigmatization, and by sketching how social scientists, policy makers, organizations, and citizens can contribute in the reduction of recognition gaps.Publication Prisms of Inequality: Moral Boundaries, Exclusion, and Academic Evaluation(Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, 2017) Lamont, MicheleThe Erasmus Prize is awarded annually to a person or institution that has made an exceptional contribution to the humanities, the social sciences or the arts, in Europe and beyond. Emphasizing the importance of tolerance, cultural pluriformity and non-dogmatic critical thinking, the Foundation endeavours to express these values in the choice of its laureates. In 2017 the board of the Erasmus Prize decided to pay tribute to the combined theme of Knowledge, power and diversity. Erasmus, after whom the prize was named, was deeply interested in these three significant categories. Cultural sociologist Michèle Lamont was chosen to receive the prize for her devoted contribution to the social sciences in general and for her research into the relationship between knowledge, power and diversity in particular. In this eleventh volume in the series of Praemium Erasmianum Essay, Lamont gives an overview of her interest and oeuvre, thus making her views on inequality and diversity accessible to a larger audience. It yields a fascinating demonstration of the wide scope and importance of her discipline.Publication Looking back at Social Knowledge in the Making(Società Editrice il Mulino, 2014) Gross, Neil; Lamont, Michele; Camic, CharlesPublication Revisiting How Professors Think across national and occupational contexts(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2013) Lamont, MichelePublication How Has Bourdieu Been Good to Think With? The Case of the United States(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) Lamont, MicheleThe 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 in the process I describe as an active but not fully invested participant.Publication Cultural Diversity and Anti-Poverty Policy(2017-06-09) Lamont, Michele; Small, MarioThis 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, we suggest that these explanations have not been convincing and that policy requires a broader and more sophisticated understanding of the relationship between culture and behaviour. In fact, we suggest that cultural differences may be positively employed in comprehensive anti-poverty strategies.Publication Assessing France as a Model of Societal Success(Berghahn Books, 2010) Laurent, Éloi; Lamont, MichelePublication Les conditions de l’évaluation universitaire(2009) Lamont, Michele; Cousin, BrunoINTERVENTION : Parmi les réformes de l’université et de la recherche qui provoquent une mobilisation sans précédent, la question de l’évaluation des enseignants-chercheurs résume assez bien les enjeux du passage de la collégialité à l’externalisation de la gestion des carrières et, partant, de l’activité pédagogique et scientifique. Partant de l’expérience des Etats-Unis, Bruno Cousin et Michèle Lamont mettent en perspective les présupposés de la réforme.Publication What Trump's Campaign Speeches Show About His Lasting Appeal to the White Working Class(2017) Lamont, Michele; Park, Bo Yun; Ayala-Hurtado, Elena