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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Andrew Carnegie Fellow
  • 2017 - Erasmus Prize, Praemium Erasmianum Foundation
  • 2015 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences
  • 2000 - C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems
  • 1996 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Michèle Lamont is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and conducts research primarily within the social sciences. Their work focuses extensively on sociology, political science, and related interdisciplinary fields.

Their research spans several subfields including sociology and political science, political science and international relations, clinical psychology, general health professions, and global and planetary change. The main topics covered in their scholarly output include youth education and societal dynamics, employment and welfare studies, ecosystem dynamics and resilience, innovation, sustainability, and human-machine systems, resilience and mental health, youth development and social support, and COVID-19 and mental health.

Frequent collaborators in their research are Carl Folke, Stephen Polasky, Johan Rockström, Victor Galaz, and Frances Westley, each contributing to multiple works.

Michèle Lamont's recent publications include:

  • Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere, 2021, AMBIO
  • How American college students understand social resilience and navigate towards the future during covid and the movement for racial justice, 2022, Social Science & Medicine
  • Recreating a Plausible Future: Combining Cultural Repertoires in Unsettled Times, 2023, Sociological Science
  • Our Future in the Anthropocene Biosphere: Global sustainability and resilient societies, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Feeling overlooked: A rural-urban divide in recognition, 2024, Global Policy

The majority of their works are published in the SSRN Electronic Journal, with additional publications in AMBIO, Social Science & Medicine, Sociological Science, and Global Policy.

Over the course of their career, Michèle Lamont has been recognized with several awards including the Andrew Carnegie Fellow in 2019, the Erasmus Prize by the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation in 2017, Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada within the Academy of Social Sciences in 2015, the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems in 2000, and Fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1996.

Best Publications

  • Money, Morals, and Manners: The Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class

    Michèle Lamont

  • CULTURAL CAPITAL: ALLUSIONS, GAPS AND GLISSANDOS IN RECENT THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS*

    Michele Lamont;Annette Lareau

  • Toward a Comparative Sociology of Valuation and Evaluation

    Michèle Lamont

  • Money, Morals and Manners: The Culture of the French and American Upper- Middle Class.

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  • The dignity of working men : morality and the boundaries of race, class, and immigration

    Michèle Lamont

  • Reconsidering Culture and Poverty

    Mario Luis Small;David J. Harding;Michèle Lamont

  • Methodological Pluralism and the Possibilities and Limits of Interviewing

    Michèle Lamont;Ann Swidler

  • How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment

    Michèle Lamont

  • Cultivating differences : symbolic boundaries and the making of inequality

    Michèle Lamont;Marcel Fournier

  • Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology: Repertoires of Evaluation in France and the United States

    Michèle Lamont;Laurent Thévenot

  • What is missing? Cultural processes and causal pathways to inequality

    Michèle Lamont;Stefan Beljean;Matthew Clair

  • Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere.

    Carl Folke;Carl Folke;Stephen Polasky;Johan Rockström;Victor Galaz

  • Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era

    Peter A. Hall;Michèle Lamont

  • The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race

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  • How to Become a Dominant French Philosopher: The Case of Jacques Derrida'

    Michele Lamont

  • Boundary processes: Recent theoretical developments and new contributions

    Mark A. Pachucki;Sabrina Pendergrass;Michèle Lamont

  • Ordinary Cosmopolitanisms: Strategies for Bridging Racial Boundaries among Working Class Men

    Michèle Lamont;Sada Aksartova

  • Social knowledge in the making

    Charles M. Camic;Neil Gross;Michele Lamont

  • Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era

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  • Addressing Recognition Gaps: Destigmatization and the Reduction of Inequality:

    Michèle Lamont

  • Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel

    Michèle Lamont;Graziella Moraes Silva;Jessica S. Welburn;Joshua Guetzkow

  • Cultural Capital: Allusions, Gaps and Glissandos in Recent TheoreticalDevelopments

    Michèle Lamont;Annette Lareau

  • The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences

    Michèle Lamont;Virág Molnár

  • Introduction: Reconsidering Culture and Poverty

    Michele Lamont;Mario Luis Small;David J. Harding

Frequent Co-Authors

Steve Woolgar
Steve Woolgar University of Oxford
Donald MacKenzie
Donald MacKenzie University of Edinburgh
Stephen Polasky
Stephen Polasky University of Minnesota
Frances Westley
Frances Westley University of Waterloo
Beatrice Crona
Beatrice Crona Stockholm University
Johan Rockström
Johan Rockström Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Victor Galaz
Victor Galaz Stockholm University
J. Lawrence Aber
J. Lawrence Aber New York University
Elke U. Weber
Elke U. Weber Princeton University
Gretchen C. Daily
Gretchen C. Daily Stanford University

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