People Type: Organizational and Occupational Analysis

Organizational and Occupational Analysis: This area addresses the social dynamics of organized collective activity, with a focus that extends from large-scale formal bureaucracies to self-employed professionals in the community. Courses and seminars emphasize the importance of the organization as a crucial unit of sociological analysis, with attention both to organizations’ internal structural characteristics and also to the relationships between organizations and their environments. The curriculum also treats selected issues in the social psychology of organizations and the sociology of work, such as the interactions among organizational participants and the linkages between individual workers and larger organizations, occupations and professions. In addition, the Sociology Department offers a number of courses examining the workings of organizations and occupations within specific social institutions, such as education, law, medicine, religion, and the market economy.

Accominotti, Fabien

More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Personal Webpage Biography Research Interest Statement: My work, which lies at the intersection of cultural sociology, economic sociology, and stratification research, explores the making and unmaking of status hierarchies and how they sustain inequality in society. Empirically, I focus on unsettled fields, uncertain markets, and complex organizations, which …

Ermakoff, Ivan

Biography Research Interest Statement: My research agenda is centered on transition processes and collective situations in which individuals are confronted with decisions that challenge their sense of self-interest, preservation or identity. I have been investigating aristocrats facing new matrimonial regulations in Europe in the central middle ages, parliamentarians confronted with the prospect of their own …

Hart, Chloe Grace

More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: My research examines cultural beliefs about gender, romance, sexuality, and sexual violence in the United States. In one major stream of research, I consider how cultural beliefs about sexual harassment create challenges for people who have experienced it. A second, emerging line of research examines how people …

Santos, Maria-Fátima

More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: Broadly, I am interested in different dimensions of legal and penal state power–their relationship to how societies are organized, the forms of social exclusion that compose them, and the people and mechanisms that influence their transformations. My current research examines public defenders who counsel poor people in Brazil’s …

Ward, Kelly Marie

Additional Online Resource Alternate Webpage Biography Research Interest Statement: Kelly Marie Ward is an Assistant Professor in the Gender & Women’s Studies and Sociology departments at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She studies the organizational features of abortion and reproductive healthcare with an emphasis on low status workers. She has published in the Journal of …