On June 4 to 6, 2014, Michèle Lamont delivered the Adorno Lectures on the topic of Worlds of Worth: Cultural Processes of Inequality, at the Institut für Sozialforschung at the Johannes Wolfgang Goethe Universität in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She will be conférencière invitée sur chaire d’Etat at the Collège de France in May 2015, where she will deliver these same lectures over four weeks. These lectures (in preparation for publication in German, French and English) offer an overview of her far-reaching research agenda.... Read more about Worlds of Worth: Cultural Processes of Inequality

Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev, professor of sociology at Tel Aviv University, contributed to the New York Times Opinion Page (October 29, 2014) on "Engaging Instead of Blaming Managers."

Whereas social network researchers have been studying increasingly complex structures based on larger and larger datasets, Professor Mario L. Small has been doing the opposite—studying increasingly micro-level questions based on small sets of individuals and how they develop and use their personal networks.  He is writing a book about how people decide to whom to turn when they need a confidant based on richly detailed, longitudinal data on the experience of a group of graduate students over the first two years of their programs.  The book questions the theory that, when needing to discuss personal or otherwise important matters, people will decide whom to approach based primarily on the closeness of the relationship.... Read more about Understanding Motivation in Social Networks