Economic Sociology and Organizations
The department continues a long history of studying economic and organizational phenomena from a sociological perspective. Research questions range from family decisions to immigrate to organizational strategies for profitability to national choices of welfare policies. The department sponsors the MIT-Harvard Economic Sociology Seminar, the Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Seminar, and the Work, Organizations, and Markets Seminar.
News related to Economic Sociology & Organizations
Symposium on Patterson's Paradox of Freedom Published
The European Journal of Sociology has published the remarks delivered at a panel discussion on the life and work of Stone Program faculty affiliate Orlando Patterson, the John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. This event took place at...
Ellis Monk awarded ASA Theory Section Award
American Sociology Association's Theory Section’s Lewis A Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda-Setting awarded to Professor Ellis Monk. Please see more about the award here .
The Monk Skin Tone Scale now held in permanent collection of UK museum
Learn more about the Monk Skin Tone Scale, and the display at National Science and Media Museum Sound and Vision galleries.
2026 Sociology Undergraduate Thesis Prizes and Academic Awards
Students receive Fulton, Hoopes, Cummings, and Rose prizes for outstanding thesis work; Five students inducted to Phi Beta Kappa; Three students accepted to American Sociological Association 2026 Honors Program. Read more here.
2026 Sociology Undergraduate Thesis Prizes and Academic Awards
The department would like to congratulate the following students for their outstanding thesis work and academic achievements during the 2026 academic year: Fulton Prize Each year the Albert M. Fulton, Class of 1897, Prize is presented to the senior who...
Related Publications
Winship, C., Staubmann, H., & Lidz, V. (2018). Inchoate Situations and Extra-Rational Behavior. In Rationality in the Social Sciences (pp. 223-243). Springer International Publishing.
Winship, C., Staubmann, H., & Lidz, V. (2018). Inchoate Situations and Extra-Rational Behavior. In Rationality in the Social Sciences (pp. 223-243). Springer International Publishing.
Buffel, V., Beckfield, J., & Bracke, P. (2017). The Institutional Foundations of Medicalization: A Comparative Approach to Medicalizing Unemployment. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 58, 272-90.
Buffel, V., Beckfield, J., & Bracke, P. (2017). The Institutional Foundations of Medicalization: A Comparative Approach to Medicalizing Unemployment. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 58, 272-90.
Pernell, K., Jung, J., & Dobbin, F. (2017). The Hazards of Expert Control: Chief Risk Officers and Risky Derivatives. American Sociological Review, 82(3), 511-541.
Pernell, K., Jung, J., & Dobbin, F. (2017). The Hazards of Expert Control: Chief Risk Officers and Risky Derivatives. American Sociological Review, 82(3), 511-541.