SOCIOLOGY - Key Persons
Interests: Culture, cognition, theory, psychology, qualitative methods
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- Postdoctoral Fellow, Mansueto Institute Postdoctoral Scholar, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Interests: Crime and deviance, urban sociology, social networks, the life course, policing, gangs, and quantitative methods
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- Research Director, Section of Hospital Medicine
Interests: decision-making, doctor-patient interactions and relationships, end-of-life care
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- Chairman of Committee
- Co - Editor of Chicago Studies
- Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department
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Cultural change, ways of knowing and understanding, identity, emotions, social ontology and historical and ethnographic methods
Andreas Glaeser is a sociologist of culture with a particular interest in the construction of identities and knowledges. His work interlaces substantive interests with efforts to build social theory. In this vein, his first book develops a theory of identity formation processes in the context of an ethnographic study of Germany's post-unification woes. He is currently finishing a book aiming at the development of a political epistemology which asks how people come to understand the world of politics from within their particular biographical trajectories and social milieus. The substantive focus of this book is the late socialist German state's effort to understand its citizens and to control the opposition as well as the opposition members' efforts to form their independent understanding of state socialism. He has begun work on a new project which studies the emergence of dominant understandings about Muslim immigrants in the interaction between contingent historical events, the cycles of electoral politics, everyday experiences and mass-mediated discourses in Germany, France and Britain.
Glaeser is the co-editor of Chicago Studies in the Practices of Meaning.
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Professions and work, urban sociology, historical sociology, methodology, and general social theory
Andrew Abbott is the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Sociology and the College at the University of Chicago. Abbott took his BA (in history and literature) at Harvard in 1970 and his PhD (in sociology) from the University of Chicago in 1982. Prior to his return to Chicago in 1991, he taught for thirteen years at Rutgers University.
Known for his ecological theories of occupations, Abbott also pioneered algorithmic analysis of social sequence data. He has written on the foundations of social science methodology and on the evolution of the social sciences and the academic system. He has published twelve books and eighty articles and chapters.
His work includes The System of Professions (Chicago 1988), a theoretical analysis of the professions and their development that won the ASA's Sorokin Award in 1991. He has also published a historical study of academic disciplines and publication (Department and Discipline [Chicago 1999]), a theoretical analysis of fractal patterns in social and cultural structures (Chaos of Disciplines [Chicago 2001]), and a collection of theoretical essays in the Chicago pragmatist and ecological tradition (Time Matters [Chicago 2001]). Abbott has written two texts, the first a short introduction to heuristics in the social sciences (Methods of Discovery [Norton 2004]) and the second a manual for research projects in libraries and on the Internet (Digital Paper [Chicago, 2014]). His most recent English-language books are Processual Sociology (Chicago, 2016) and Varieties of Social Imagination (Chicago, 2017). He has since published Faits et valeurs (College de France, 2020) in French and two books of original and reprinted material translated into Chinese: University Education and the Future of Knowledge (Da Xue Jiao Yu yu Zhi Shi de Wei Lai. SDX:2023) and A Place to Rest Before Moving On (She Hui Ke Xue de Wei Lai. Commercial Press, 2023).
Abbott's near-term project is to finish the first volume of his theoretical work on The Social Process. Before going on to the second volume, he hopes to write a short book on the future of knowledge, growing out of his writing on the theory and history of library research and on knowledge practices more generally.
An active teacher, Abbott has served on or chaired over 130 dissertation committees, and his students teach at universities and colleges throughout the United States. He served from 1993 to 1996 as Master of Chicago's Social Science Collegiate Division and as Chair of the Department of Sociology from 1999-2002. He has also chaired his university's Library Board and the task force planning the future of the University's libraries. Abbott edited Work and Occupations from 1991 to 1994 and the American Journal of Sociology from 2000 to 2016. He was President of the Social Science History Association in 2002/3. Abbott was Norman Chester Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, in 1997 and has continued to visit Oxford regularly since. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2011 received the degree of Docteur Honoris Causa from the Universite de Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines.
Interests:
Risk and Disaster, Organizations, Science and Knowledge, Governance, Climate Change
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- Associate Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Interests:
Crime, Gender, Social Theory, Urban Sociology
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Comparative/Historical/ Macro Sociology, Culture, Political Sociology, Qualitative Methodology, Sociology of Religion, Social Studies of Knowledge, Social Theory
Interests: Computational sociology, sociology of culture, political sociology, science and knowledge
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Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Political Sociology, Urban Sociology
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- Assistant Instructional Professor of Sociology, M.a. Program in the Social Sciences
Interests: Gender, race, religion and spiritual identity
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Crime, Sociology of Law, Culture, Qualitative Methodology, Critical Theory, Social Studies of Knowledge, Phenomenology, Marxist Sociology
Cameron Day studies the histories of institutions of social control - how are social problems identified and acted upon collectively? How does the activity of social control relate to science, politics, ideology, and emotion? Cameron has studied the spatial concentration of urban public health crises, the application of clinical science to social problems by philanthropic organizations, and professional discourses of data science among social service nonprofits. He is currently completing his dissertation on the emotional and practical politics of legislation pursued following incidents of sensational violence and public outrage.
Interests:
Demography, Economic Sociology, Family, Gender, Stratification
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- ASSISTANT SENIOR INSTRUCTIONAL PROFESSOR in the GLOBAL STUDIES PROGRAM Assistant Senior Instructional Professor in the the Global Studies Program
Interests: Social movements, gender and sexuality, transnational sociology, social change, culture, East Asia, qualitative methods
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- Instructional Professor, Social Sciences Collegiate Division
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- Leadership Professor of Sociology and Strategy, Booth School of Business
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- Department of Comparative
Interests:
Gender, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Law & Society, Intersectionality
Christopher Williams, Searching for Space: Creating Room In Global Studies, (chapter in Invisible Institutionalisms: Collective Reflections on the shadows of Legal Globalisation), (Swethaa Ballakhrishnen and Sara Dezalay, Bloomsbury Publishing ((2021)).
Interests: Contested identities, sexuality, gender, sociology of law, health, social movements, sociological theory
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- Graduate Studies Administrator
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Education, Qualitative Methodology, Immigration
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Demography, Education, Gender, Quantitative Methodology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Stratification, Work/Occupations
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- Professor
- William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and the College Interim Chair, Department of Anthropology
Interests:
Political sociology, organizational analysis, historical sociology
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- Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, Center for Health and Social Sciences ( CHESS ), and NORC
Interests: Elder abuse, late-life intimate partner violence, caregiving, dementia and cognitive impairment, and adverse childhood experiences
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Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Computational Methods, Culture, Mathematical Sociology, Political Sociology, Quantitative Methodology, Social Change
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- Faculty Affairs Administrator
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- Associate Professor of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity
Interests:
Social structures, political fields and the quantitative study of qualities
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Crime, Economic Sociology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Stratification, Urban Sociology
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- Professor, Political Science
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- Associate Professor Associate Director, Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility
- Member of Committee
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Inequality, poverty, and social mobility; social psychology; urban sociology; causal inference
Geoff Wodtke's research is in the areas of urban poverty and neighborhood effects, group conflict and racial attitudes, class structure and income inequality, and methods of causal inference in observational research. He is currently working on several projects dealing with the impact of poverty on child development, class and racial disparities in exposure to environmental health hazards, and new methods for estimating causal effects with observational data. His previous work on these topics has been published in the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Demography, and Sociological Methodology, among other outlets. Wodtke completed his PhD in Sociology at the University of Michigan, where he also earned his MA in statistics.
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- George Herbert Mead Distinguished Service Professor
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- Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development Inaugural Chair, Committee on Quantitative Methods in Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences Member, Committee on Education
Interests:
Culture, Political Sociology, Qualitative Methodology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Sociology of Religion, Urban Sociology
Interests:
Computational Methods, Culture, Economic Sociology, Globalization, Social Theory
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Demography, Economic Sociology, Family, Gender, Qualitative Methodology, Quantitative Methodology, Sexualities, Social Organizations, Network Analysis
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- Visiting Professor ( Jointly Appointed in Social Thought )
Interests:
Social theory, historical sociology of religion
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Political Sociology, Legal Systems, Social Theory
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Comparative/Historical/ Macro Sociology, Computational Methods, Culture, Development/ Modernization, Economic Sociology, Education, Globalization, Political Sociology, Qualitative Methodology, Quantitative Methodology, Social Change, Social Organizations, Social Theory, Stratification, Work/Occupations
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Computational Methods, Demography, Quantitative Methodology, Stratification, Urban Sociology, Immigration
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Computational Methods, Culture, Economic Sociology, Mathematical Sociology, Qualitative Methodology, Quantitative Methodology, Social Organizations, Social Studies of Knowledge, Work/Occupations, Human-Computer Interaction
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Economic Sociology, Quantitative Methodology, Social Studies of Knowledge, Social Theory, Stratification, Networks
Interests: Sex/gender, sexuality, science and technology studies, computational and qualitative methods
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Education, Qualitative Methodology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations
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- Professor, Political Science
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Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Culture, Economic Sociology, Social Studies of Knowledge
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Race, social movements, work, professions, organizations, diversity in higher education
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- Member of Committee
- Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Faculty Affiliate in the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, & Culture and the Committee on International Relations
Interests:
Empire, colonialism and postcolonial thought, historical sociology, social theory, global and transnational sociology, politics and culture, race and ethnicity
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Crime, Education, Family, Quantitative Methodology, Stratification, Urban Sociology
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- Assistant Instructional Professor, Harris School of Public Policy
Interests: High schools, ethnography, adolescent development, public policy, sociology of education
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- Postdoctoral Researcher, Institution on the Formation of Knowledge
Interests: Digital media, the environmental humanities, and cultures of science and technology
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- Professor Director of Global Studies
Interests:
Economic sociology, law, global sociology, gender, qualitative research methods, theory
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Gender & sexualities, transgender studies, work and occupations, ethnography, qualitative methods, feminist & queer cultural production
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Demography, Health and Medicine, Quantitative Methodology, Stratification
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Crime, Gender, Social Change, Social Organizations
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Family, Health and Medicine, Social Change, Social Theory, Mixed Methods
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Crime, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Urban Sociology, Geography
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- George Herbert Mead Distinguished Service Professor
Interests:
Health & society, aging, family, social demography, sexuality
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Social networks, intergroup dynamics, immigrant integration, policing, race and ethnicity, demography, neighborhoods, computational social science
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Family, Gender, Qualitative Methodology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Stratification
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- Lucy Flower Professor of Urban
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- Professor of Ecology and Evolution
Interests:
Political Sociology, Qualitative Methodology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Social Theory, Urban Sociology
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- Postdoctoral Fellow, Mansueto Institute and Division of Social Sciences
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- Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies
Interests:
Political sociology, urban sociology, social theory, transnational processes, and inequality
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Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Development/Modernization, Environmental Sociology, Gender, Political Sociology, Qualitative Methodology, Social Change, Social Theory
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- Assistant Instructional Professor of Sociology, M.a. Program in the Social Sciences
Interests: Education, urban sociology, social inequality, public policy, data science, quantitative methods, causal inference, hierarchical linear modeling
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Comparative/Historical/ Macro Sociology, Political Sociology, Qualitative Methodology, Disability, Social Movements
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Computational Methods, Culture, Economic Sociology, Mathematical Sociology, Quantitative Methodology, Social Theory, Social Psychology
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- Professor Director, Knowledge Lab Faculty Director, Masters Program in Computational Social Science External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Interests:
Knowing, computational social science, collective intelligence, science of science, skills and learning, machine learning & AI, human-machine intelligence, human and machine languages, fields and networks, text and image analysis, the science of data
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- Senior Research Scientist at NORC
Interests: LGBTQ+ populations, stigma, resilience, behavioral health, mixed methods, community engaged research
Interests: Cultural sociology, social theory, nationalism, material & visual culture, memory & heritage, political sociology, citizenship
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- Lucy Flower Professor of Urban
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Critical urban theory and capitalist urbanization; cities, hinterlands and global political ecology; economic sociology and comparative-historical geopolitical economy; fossil capitalism and energy geographies; critical infrastructure studies; capitalism and social theory; Marxism
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Qualitative Methodology, Quantitative Methodology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Stratification, Urban Sociology
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- Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Interests:
Political Sociology, Social Organizations, Social Theory, Urban Sociology
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Environmental Sociology, Qualitative Methodology, Social Theory, Urban Sociology
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- Postdoctoral Scholar, Data Science Institute
Interests:
Culture, Globalization, Political Sociology, Qualitative Methodology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Sexualities, Social Theory, Urban Sociology
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Political Sociology, Qualitative Methodology, Social Organizations, Social Studies of Knowledge, Social Theory
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- Distinguished Service Professor
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Economic sociology, sociology of science, consumption, globalization, sociology of culture, qualitative methods, contemporary theory
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Religion, urban sociology, urban poverty, race, and collective action
Interests: Political sociology, identity, race/ethnicity, computational sociology, global & transnational sociology, global historical sociology
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Education, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Stratification
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Computational Methods, Demography, Education, Family, Quantitative Methodology, Stratification
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- Postdoctoral Fellow in the Demography and Economics of Aging Training Program, Center for Health and the Social Sciences
Interests: Medical sociology, population studies, health services research, structural determinants of health; racial stratification, immigrant incorporation
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- Associate Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Research Professor, American Bar Foundation
Interests:
Crime, Qualitative Methodology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Social Change, Social Organizations, Urban Sociology, Law and Society
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- Associate Professor Deputy Dean of the Social Sciences
- Chairman of Committee
Interests:
Political economy of policing, urban studies, law, race, and mixed methods
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- Assistant Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Interests:
Employment and its connections to other social institutions and structures, including formal organizations, the family, schools, and ethnic, race and gender stratification patterns
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Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Crime, Qualitative Methodology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Urban Sociology
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Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Qualitative Methodology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Social Change, Urban Sociology
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- Associate Instructional Professor
Interests: Urban and suburban poverty, ethnography, qualitative methods, sociology of the family, gerontology, race and critical race theory, sociology of culture, and visual sociology
Interests: Organization, culture and ideology, elite theory, computational methods, social statistics
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Comparative/Historical/ Macro Sociology, Computational Methods, Political Sociology, Quantitative Methodology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Social Organizations, Urban Sociology, Nonprofits and Civil Society
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Economic Sociology, Gender, Qualitative Methodology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Social Theory, Urban Sociology
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Culture, Economic Sociology, Qualitative Methodology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Social Organizations, Social Studies of Knowledge, Immigration, Social Networks
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- Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute on the Formation of Knowledge
Interests: History of the behavioral and mind sciences, the sociology of expertise, and the social technologies that sustain the liberal democratic state
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Globalization, Qualitative Methodology, Social Change, Social Organizations, Work/Occupations
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Using decision-making theory to approach urban politics and other social phenomena, sociology of culture, transnational processes, urban sociology, social theory
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Health and Medicine, Gender and Sexuality, Qualitative Methodology, Social Studies of Knowledge, Family and Reproduction, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Social Theory
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Comparative/Historical/ Macro Sociology, Health and Medicine, Social Studies of Knowledge, Social Theory, Death and Dying
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Culture, Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Organizations, Social Studies of Knowledge, Social Theory, Work/Organizations
Interests: Health and medicine, gender, social studies of knowledge
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- Professor Emeritus ( Out of Residence )
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- Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and the College Interim Chair, Department of Anthropology
- William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and the College Interim Chair, Department of Anthropology
Elisabeth S. Clemens (A.M. 1985, Ph.D 1990) is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago as well as a former Master of the Social Sciences Collegiate Division. Her research explores the role of social movements and organizational innovation in political change. Clemens' first book, The People's Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890-1925 (Chicago, 1997) received best book awards in both organizational sociology (1998) and political sociology (1999). She is also co-editor of Private Action and the Public Good (Yale, 1998), Remaking Modernity: Politics, History and Sociology (Duke, 2005), Politics and Partnerships: Voluntary Associations in America's Past and Present (Chicago, 2010; winner of the 2012 Virginia Hodgkinson Research Prize from ARNOVA), and the journal Studies in American Political Development. She is now completing Civic Nation which traces the tense but powerful entanglements of benevolence and liberalism in the development of the American nation-state.
Professor Clemens has served terms as chair of both the political sociology and comparative historical sociology sections of the American Sociological Association, as a member of the Social Science Research Council Program on Philanthropy and the Third Sector, and as President of the Social Science History Association for 2012-13.
Interests:
Demography, Education, Family, Quantitative Methodology, Stratification
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Economic Sociology, Education, Political Sociology, Social Organizations, Social Theory
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Culture, Family, Gender, Qualitative Methodology, Sexualities, Social Theory, Semiotics, Ethnomethodology, Membership Categorization, Critical Childhood Studies
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Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Development/Modernization, Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Qualitative Methodology, Social Theory
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- Visiting Assistant Professor
Interests:
Political sociology, sociology of religion, qualitative research, Iran's studies
Interests:
Crime, Political Sociology, Quantitative Methodology, Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations, Stratification, Urban Sociology