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62
Citations
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World Ranking
1207
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561

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • 1989 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Paul Dimaggio is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research spans several fields within the social sciences, particularly focusing on sociology and political science, with contributions also made to statistical and nonlinear physics, organizational behavior and human resource management, strategy and management, and tourism, leisure and hospitality management.

Their main research topics include social and intergroup psychology, racial and ethnic identity research, social and cultural dynamics, as well as management and organizational studies. Additionally, they have worked on issues related to supply chain resilience and risk management, migration, refugees, and integration, and the wine industry and tourism.

Paul Dimaggio has authored recent papers covering diverse sociological themes. These include:

  • Has Pandemic Threat Stoked Xenophobia? How COVID-19 Influences California Voters' Attitudes toward Diversity and Immigration, 2021, Sociological Forum
  • The Iron Cage Redux: Looking Back and Forward, 2023, Organization Theory
  • Coping With Plenitude: A Computational Approach to Selecting the Right Algorithm, 2021, Sociological Methods & Research
  • Mapping culture with latent class analysis: A response to Eger and Hjerm, 2021, Nations and Nationalism
  • Duality and relationality: The cultural matrix of John W. Mohr, 2020, Poetics

Frequent co-authors in their work include Walter W. Powell, Chelsea Daniels, G. Cristina Mora, Hana Shepherd, and Ramina Sotoudeh. Publications by Paul Dimaggio have appeared in various scholarly venues such as Organization Theory, Sociological Forum, Sociological Methods & Research, Nations and Nationalism, and Poetics.

The scientist has been recognized by several academic institutions and societies. Awards received include Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009), Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2005), and Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1989).

Best Publications

  • The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields

    Paul J. DiMaggio;Walter W. Powell

  • The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis

    Walter W. Powell;Paul DiMaggio

  • Interest and Agency in Institutional Theory

    P. Dimaggio

  • Culture and cognition

    Paul DiMaggio

  • Social Implications of the Internet

    Paul DiMaggio;Eszter Hargittai;W. Russell Neuman;John P. Robinson

  • Cultural capital and school success: The impact of status-culture participation on the grades of U.S. high-school students

    Paul DiMaggio

  • Classification in Art.

    Paul DiMaggio

  • Cultural Capital, Educational Attainment, and Marital Selection

    Paul DiMaggio;John Mohr

  • Cultural entrepreneurship in nineteenth-century Boston: the creation of an organizational base for high culture in America

    Paul Dimaggio

  • Have Americans' social attitudes become more polarized?

    Paul DiMaggio;John Evans;Bethany Bryson

  • Structures of capital : the social organization of the economy

    Sharon Zukin;Paul DiMaggio

  • Digital Inequality: From Unequal Access to Differentiated Use

    Paul Dimaggio;Eszter Hargittai;Coral Celeste;Steven Shafer

  • The Sociology of Nonprofit Organizations and Sectors

    Paul J. DiMaggio;Helmut K. Anheier

  • Exploiting affinities between topic modeling and the sociological perspective on culture: Application to newspaper coverage of U.S. government arts funding

    Paul DiMaggio;Manish Nag;David Blei

  • Socially Embedded Consumer Transactions: For What Kinds of Purchases Do People Most Often Use Networks?

    Paul DiMaggio;Hugh Louch

  • Social class and arts consumption

    Paul Dimaggio;Paul Dimaggio;Michael Useem;Michael Useem

  • On Pierre Bourdieu

    Paul DiMaggio

  • Comment on "What Theory is Not."

    Paul J. DiMaggio

  • Arts participation as cultural capital in the United States, 1982–2002: Signs of decline?

    Paul DiMaggio;Toqir Mukhtar

  • Network Effects and Social Inequality

    Paul DiMaggio;Filiz Garip

  • Political Networks: The Structural Perspective.

    Paul DiMaggio;David Knoke

  • The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis

    Mauro F. Guillén;Walter W. Powell;Paul J. Dimaggio

Frequent Co-Authors

Walter W. Powell
Walter W. Powell Stanford University
Eszter Hargittai
Eszter Hargittai University of Zurich
John P. Robinson
John P. Robinson University of Maryland, College Park
Barry Wellman
Barry Wellman University of Toronto
Howard S. Becker
Howard S. Becker University of Washington
Mary Douglas
Mary Douglas University College London
Andrew Abbott
Andrew Abbott University of Chicago
David Knoke
David Knoke University of Minnesota
Richard Swedberg
Richard Swedberg Cornell University
Hazel Rose Markus
Hazel Rose Markus Stanford University

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