Sociology PhDs on the Market
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Dissertation Title: Gullet Politics. How Markets, Movements, and the State Organize Public Morality: Contentious Foie Gras Politics in France and the United States.
Areas of Interest: Sociology of Culture; Organizations; Economic Sociology, Consumption; Food; Social Movements; Institutions and Globalization, Social Problems, Qualitative Methodologies
Recent Publications:
Michaela DeSoucey and Isabelle Téchoueyres. ‘Virtue and Valorization: “Local Food” in the United States and France.’ In The Globalization of Food. Edited by David Inglis and Debra Gimlin. Oxford & New York: Berg Publishers. Forthcoming March 2009.
Klaus Weber, Kathryn Heinze, and Michaela DeSoucey. ‘Forage for Thought: Mobilizing Codes in the Movement for Grass-fed Meat and Dairy Products.’ Administrative Science Quarterly, accepted December 2007, forthcoming Fall 2008.
Michaela DeSoucey, Jo-Ellen Pozner, Corey Fields, Kerry Dobransky, and Gary Alan Fine. 2008. ‘Memory and Sacrifice: An Embodied Theory of Martyrdom.’ Cultural Sociology 2:1 (p.99- 121).
Paul Hirsch and Michaela DeSoucey. 2006. ‘Organizational Restructuring: Rhetorical and Structural Implications.’ Annual Review of Sociology. Vol. 32.
coreyfields2010@u.northwestern.edu
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Dissertation Title: Black Elephants in the Living Room: The Complexities of Black Racial Identity and the Politics of African-American Republicans
Dissertation Summary: Departing from a social determinism that assumes a naturalized, almost essential relationship, between racial identity and political decisions, I use the case of African-American Republicans to posit a variable, historically contingent relationship between black racial identity and political behavior. The dissertation focuses on three different articulations of “race”: (1) race as a subjective sense of identity felt by political actors; (2) race as a cultural object indicative of a system of meanings and beliefs about "black people"; and (3) race as a series of performative moves – including dress, talk, and interaction. Drawing from a range of qualitative and quantitative empirical data, I show how race, in all its manifestations, can be used to support a wide range of political attitudes and behaviors. The project expands existing research on race and politics by moving beyond treating race as a static characteristic of individuals, and instead showing how the meanings attached to racial identity have implications for how political behavior is structured. Furthermore, the research examines the way political location shapes how actors understand and deploy their racial identity. The research illustrates how the recursive, dynamic, and variable processes of identity construction shape – and, in turn, are shaped by – broader political processes.
Areas of Interest: Race/identity, political sociology, culture, microsociology/social psychology
Recent Publications:
Fields, Corey D. Forthcoming (2009). “Multicultural Conservatives.” in Culture Wars: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Voices, and Viewpoints. Edited by Roger Chapman. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe Inc.
Fine, Gary Alan and Corey D. Fields. 2008. “Culture and Microsociology: The Anthill and the Veldt.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 619(1): 130-148.
DeSoucey, Michaela, Jo-Ellen Pozner, Corey D. Fields, Kerry Dobransky, and Gary Alan Fine. 2008 “Memory and Sacrifice: An Embodied Theory of Martyrdom.” Cultural Sociology 2(1): 99-121.
Fields, Corey D. 2007. “Sociometry, 1937.” Social Psychology Quarterly 70(4): 326-329.
Anderson, Elisabeth, Michaela DeSoucey, Corey D. Fields, and Chris Yenky, eds. 2006. Economic Sociology: Syllabi & Instructional Materials, 3rd Edition. American Sociological Association.
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