Professor Michèle Lamont FBA

Cultural and comparative sociology, particularly: culture and inequality, racism and stigma, academia and knowledge, social change and collective well-being, and cultural processes and qualitative methods
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2019
Subjects
Sociology

Current post

Robert I Goldman Professor of European Studies, Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Susie Scott FBA

The micro-sociological perspectives of symbolic interactionism and Goffman's dramaturgy, applied to questions of self-identity, emotions, mental health and everyday life. Originator of the sociology of shyness and sociology of nothing

Susie Scott FBA

Professor Bea Cantillon FBA

Welfare states, social security and inequality in the rich world, with a special focus on the impact of national and European social policies on poverty and social exclusion

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Professor Francesco Billari FBA

Demography; life course; family and fertility; transition to adulthood; social norms; comparative and cross-national research; social statistics; agent-based modelling

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