Harvard University Press
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MICHELE LAMONT
discusses
How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment
Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies at Harvard MICHELE LAMONT for a Friday Forum discussion of her latest book, How Professors Think. "This fair-minded and reader-friendly book might just help produce the trust, respect, and tolerance necessary for academic community. By closely examining scholarly evaluation and identifying distinctive disciplinary definitions of quality among the humanities and social sciences, Michèle Lamont shows that academic culture, far from being a hierarchy declining from supposedly more "rigorous" and demanding disciplines to those less so, is constituted of many different excellencies." —Thomas Bender (Intellect and Public Life)
"A masterpiece. Lamont starts with her greatest accomplishment: a nuanced account of the epistemic cultures that dominate social sciences and humanities. Their differences show the problem of building a culture of discourse in multidisciplinary review, so that committees can decide which standard is best. Lamont breaks new ground in showing how personal preferences, disciplinary, gender, and ethnic diversity, and elitist and populist impulses are incorporated in such decisions." —Arthur Stinchcombe (The Logic of Social Research)
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