2018 Sep 18

Peggy Somers: How Grandpa Became a Welfare Queen: Social Democracy, the Neoliberalization of Citizenship, and a New Political Economy of Moral Worth

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location:

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 450

Culture and Social Analysis Workshop presentation by Peggy Somers, Professor of Sociology and History, University of Michigan. Read more about Peggy Somers: How Grandpa Became a Welfare Queen: Social Democracy, the Neoliberalization of Citizenship, and a New Political Economy of Moral Worth

Charlotte Lloyd selected as Radcliffe Fellow

August 9, 2018

Doctoral candidate Charlotte Lloyd was one of three graduate students selected to be a Radcliffe Institute Graduate Student Fellow for 2018-19.... Read more about Charlotte Lloyd selected as Radcliffe Fellow

Ellis Monk

Associate Professor of Sociology

Research Interests: race; inequality; comparative sociology; health; sociology of the body; social psychology; cognition; political sociology; theory.

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Assistant: Beth Varrichio

Faculty Office Hours

404 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

emonk@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-384-6775

Michele Lamont stands in front of a lecturn

Faculty Spotlight: Lamont Presidential Lecture out in American Sociological Review

June 10, 2018

Michèle Lamont, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies, served as the 108th president of the American Sociological Association in 2016-17. Her term took an unexpected turn with the election of Donald Trump in November 2016: it befell on her to take a leadership role in defending the professional interests of sociologists and the conditions for academic freedom.... Read more about Faculty Spotlight: Lamont Presidential Lecture out in American Sociological Review

Shai Dromi Receives ASA Article Award

June 6, 2018

Shai Dromi’s article Advertising morality: Maintaining moral worth in a stigmatized profession has received the 2018 ASA Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity Outstanding Published Article Award. ... Read more about Shai Dromi Receives ASA Article Award

Meyer, Rachel, and Janice Fine. 2017. “Grassroots Citizenship at Multiple Scales: Rethinking Immigrant Civic Participation”. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 30 (4):323-348.

Meyer, Rachel. 2017. “Precarious Workers and Collective Efficacy”. Critical Sociology 43 (7-8):1125-1141.

Lamont, Michèle. 2017. “Prisms of Inequality: Moral Boundaries, Exclusion, and Academic Evaluation”. in Praemium Erasmianum Essay. Amsterdam: Praemium Erasmianum Foundation.

Patterson, Orlando. 2019. The Confounding Island: Institutions, Culture and Mis-development in Post-Colonial Jamaica. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Small, Mario, et al. 2017. “Promoting Parents Social Capital to Increase Children’s Attendance in Head Start: Evidence from an Experimental Intervention”. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness 10 (4):732-66.

Chan Tack, Anjanette, and Mario L. Small. 2017. “Making Friends in Violent Neighborhoods”. Sociological Science 4:224-48.

Winship, Christopher. 2018. “Inchoate Situations and Extra-Rational Behavior”. Pp. 223-243 in Rationality in the Social Sciences, edited by Helmut Staubmann and Victor Lidz. Springer International Publishing.

Morgan, Stephen L., and Christopher Winship. 2015. Counterfactuals and Causal Inference: Methods and Principles for Social Research. 2nd ed. Cambridge.

Lei, Ya-Wen, and Daniel X. Zhou. 2015. “Contesting Legality in Authoritarian Contexts: Food Safety, Rule of Law and China's Networked Public Sphere”. Law & Society 49:557-593.

Department of Sociology

Culture