Ashley Mears

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Ashley Mears is affiliated with the following schools: Boston University, University of Georgia, New York University

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Ashley Mears

Sociology

#1027

World Rank

#1182

Historical Rank

#412

USA Rank

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Ashley Mears's Degrees

PhD Sociology New York University

Why Is Ashley Mears Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, Ashley Mears is an American writer, sociologist, and former fashion model. She is currently a professor of sociology at Boston University. Mears is the author of Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model and Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit, and is regularly quoted in media as an academic expert in the culture and economics of fashion.

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Ashley Mears's Published Works

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Published Works

How Do Cultural Producers Make Creative Decisions?: Lessons from the Catwalk (2009) (112)
Working for Free in the VIP (2015) (108)
Aesthetic Labor for the Sociologies of Work, Gender, and Beauty (2014) (98)
Size zero high-end ethnic: Cultural production and the reproduction of culture in fashion modeling (2010) (91)
Not Just a Paper Doll (2005) (74)
Theoretical and methodological pathways for research on elites (2018) (68)
Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model (2011) (67)
Capital without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent (2018) (61)
Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful (2012) (44)
Discipline of the catwalk (2008) (43)
Girls as elite distinction: The appropriation of bodily capital (2015) (38)
The Paradoxical Value of Deviant Cases: Toward a Gendered Theory of Display Work (2016) (31)
Gender on Display: Peformativity in Fashion Modelling (2013) (22)
Appendicitis risk prediction models in children presenting with right iliac fossa pain (RIFT study): a prospective, multicentre validation study. (2020) (20)
Free to those who can afford it: The everyday affordance of privilege (2012) (15)
Seeing culture through the eye of the beholder: four methods in pursuit of taste (2014) (14)
Puzzling in Sociology: On Doing and Undoing Theoretical Puzzles (2017) (13)
The Ambivalence of Consumption (2007) (13)
Bourdieu and the Body (2018) (11)
Ethnography as Precarious Work (2013) (10)
Locating local knowledge in global networks: Scouting in fashion and football (2017) (8)
Very Important People (2020) (3)
The Power of Looks: Social Stratification of Physical Appearance (2009) (2)
The Elite Potlatch: Gifts, Girls, and Distinction Among the Global VIP (2014) (2)
Managing body capital in the fields of labour, sex and health (2017) (2)
Beauty, Race, and Power (2015) (1)
Transitory ties: A network ecology perspective on job opportunities in fashion modeling (2022) (1)
Fashion and Its Gendered Agendas (2018) (1)
Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West. By Justin Farrell. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. xii+376. $27.95. (2021) (0)
Working it in the fashion market (2013) (0)
The Reterritorialization of the Elite: Global Entertainment Circuit and Finance Flows (2016) (0)
Pricing beauty: The production of value in fashion modeling markets (2009) (0)
The Privilege of the Perk: A Theoretical Agenda for Everyday Affordance of Class Position (2011) (0)
Interview with Ashley Mears, author of Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model: “Things May Look Great and Glamorous on the Outside, but There is Much More Work behind This” (interviewed by Tamara Kusimova) (2017) (0)
Elites, Economy and Society (2018) (0)
Fast-Paced Networks: How Various Forms of Social Capital Impact the Careers of Fashion Models (2015) (0)
Dominatrix: Gender, Eroticism, and Control in the Dungeon. By Danielle J. Lindemann. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. 256. $85.00 (cloth); $27.50 (paper). (2013) (0)
Seeing culture through the eye of the beholder: four methods in pursuit of taste (2014) (0)
Book Review: Women at Work: Tupperware, Passion Parties, and Beyond (2012) (0)
Superstar Longevity and Burnout in the Globalized Creative Industries: Who Gets to Walk the Catwalk, and for How Long? (2011) (0)
6. Started from the Bottom (2020) (0)
Comment and Reply (2010) (0)
Ethnography Goes Out on the Town (2016) (0)

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