Social Change and Successful Societies

2022 “How American College Students Understand Social Resilience and Navigate towards the Future during Covid and the Movement for Racial Justice.” (with Mari Sanchez and Shira Zilberstein). Social Science & Medicine 301:114890. PDF.

2020 “Our Future in the Anthropocene Biosphere: Global Sustainability and Resilient Societies” (with Carl Folke, Stephen Polasky, Johan Rockström, Victor Galaz, Frances Westley, Marten Scheffer, Henrik Österblom, Stephen Carpenter, F. Stuart Chapin III, Beatrice Crona, Gretchen Daily, Partha Dasgupta, Owen Gaffney, Line Gordon, Holger Hoff, Simon Levin, Jane Lubchenco, Will Steffen, and Brian Walker. White paper for “Nobel Prize Summit – Our Planet, Our Future.” Stockholm, Sweden: Beijer Discussion Paper Series No. 272. PDF

2019     “Social Solidarity.” Pp. 241-248 in Antidemocracy in America: Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk, edited by Eric Klinenberg, Caitlin Zaloom, and Sharon Marcus. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

2019 “For a ‘Sociology as a Team Sport.’” British Journal of Sociology, 70(3): 769-779. PDF

2019 “From ‘Having’ to ‘Being’: Self-Worth and the Current Crisis of American Society.” British Journal of Sociology, 70(3): 660-707. PDF

  • Portuguese translation: “De 'Ter' a 'Ser': Autoestima e a Crise Atual da Sociedade Americana.” Pp.121-188 in: Igreja, R. and Negri, C. (orgs.) Desigualdades Globais e Justiça Social: Interfaces Teóricas, Acesso à Justiça e Democracia. Brasília: Faculdade Latino-Americana de Ciências Sociais. 2021.

2018 “Cultural Sociology and China” (co-edited with Amy Tsang). Special issue of The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 4(15), 4(17), 4(18), 4(19), 5(7), and 5(15). 

2018      "Belonging" (with Akeel Bilgrami, Prabhat Patnaik, Faisal Devji, Aihwa Ong, Ernesto Ottone, Sonja Puntscher-Riekmann, James Tully, Nira Wickramasinghe, and Sue Wright). Pp. 779-812 in Rethinking Society for the 21st Century: Report of the International Panel on Social Progress. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. PDF

2017      “The Trump/Brexit Moment: Causes and Consequences” (co-edited with Nigel Dodd and Mike Savage). Special issue of British Journal of Sociology, 68(S1): S1-S280. 

2016      “Mutuality, Health Promotion and Collective Cultural Change” (co-edited with Mabel Berezin, Alonzo Plough, and Matthew Trujillo). Special issue of Social Science & Medicine, 165: 201-296. PDF

2016      “Destigmatization and Health: Cultural Constructions and the Long-term Reduction of Stigma” (with Matthew Clair and Caitlin Daniel). Social Science & Medicine, 165: 223-232. PDF

2016      “Neoliberalism and Symbolic Boundaries in Europe: Global Diffusion, Local Context, Regional Variation” (with Jonathan J. B. Mijs and Elyas Bakhtiari). Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 2: 1-8. PDF

2014      “How Neo-Liberalism Has Transformed France’s Symbolic Boundaries?” (with Nicolas Duvoux). French Politics, Culture & Society, 32(2): 57-75. PDF

2013      Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era (co-edited with Peter A. Hall). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

2010      “Assessing France as a Model of Societal Success” (with Éloi Laurent). French Politics, Culture & Society, 28(3): 66-73. PDF

2009      Successful Societies: How Institutions and Culture Affect Health (co-edited with Peter A. Hall). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

2000: Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology: Repertoires of Evaluation in France and the United States (co-edited with Laurent Thévenot). London: Cambridge University Press and Paris: Presses de la Maison des sciences de l’homme. 

  • Chinese translation, Jianqiao Xueshu Qianyan. Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company, 2005.