2025-04-01
57 分钟Welcome to the LSE Events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.
Welcome to the LSE for this public lecture.
My name is Sam Friedman.
I'm Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Very pleased to be here welcoming our speaker to LSE this evening.
Michelle Lamont is Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Harvard where she specialises in cultural and comparative sociology.
I would say her research has been consistently groundbreaking in sociology as well
as her deep empirical insights that her work has provided on topics like social judgement,
worth and dignity, stigma and discrimination and knowledge evaluation.
She's also furnished sociology with a range of conceptual tools and frameworks that I think have been particularly influential.
Particularly the idea of symbolic boundaries and boundary work more generally.
On a personal level Michelle's work has had a big influence on me.
I remember the eureka movement of finding her work during my PhD and I was trying to make sense of the way in which people in Britain use humour and comedy to draw not only cultural and aesthetic boundaries but also moral ones.
Michelle has written several influential books including Money, Morals and Manners,
The Dignity of Working Men and most recently Seeing Others.
She also served as the President of the American Sociological Association in 2016-17 and is currently a Labour visiting professor at University of Manchester.
Tonight I believe Michelle will discuss her ongoing collaborative research on whether and how American and British young workers in the two Manchester's are searching for recognition through politics.
Indigenous people in Canada and Micronesia are seeking recognition through environmental justice and jobs and the more general challenge of seeking recognition where it is impossible to obtain.
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