Harvard Professor Michele Lamont at the Berkeley Forum: Evaluating Society with a Sociological Lens

Evaluating Current Society with a Sociological Lens: a Conversation with Michele Lamont at the Berkeley Forum

Event Description

With growing inequality, some argue that the American dream is becoming less effective as a collective myth. With its focus on material success, competitions and self-reliance, the intensified diffusion of neoliberal scripts of the self is believed to be leading the upper-middle class toward a mental crisis, even as the working class and low-income groups are seen as lacking the resources needed to live the dream. Come and join us as Michele Lamont speaks about her most recent research about self-worth in the current American society.

Speaker Bio

Michèle Lamont is Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies at Harvard University. She served as the 108th President of the American Sociological Association in 2016-2017 and she chaired the Council for European Studies from 2006-2009. She is also the recipient of the 2017 Erasmus prize for her contributions to the social sciences in Europe and the rest of the world. A cultural and comparative sociologist, Lamont is the author of a dozen books and edited volumes and over one hundred articles and chapters on a range of topics including culture and inequality, racism and stigma, academia and knowledge, social change and successful societies, and qualitative methods.

Date: October 4, 2019
Time: 6:00 PM (see below for more details about admission)
Location: Dwinelle 182

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