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Margaret Somers

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#436

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#537

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#199

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Margaret Somers's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Margaret R. Somers is an American sociologist and Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Michigan She is the recipient of the inaugural Lewis A. Coser Award for Innovation and Theoretical Agenda-Setting in Sociology, Somers's work specializes in historical, political, economic, and cultural sociology and social theory.

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Margaret Somers's Published Works

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The narrative constitution of identity: A relational and network approach (1994) (2295)
The Uses of Comparative History in Macrosocial Inquiry (1980) (846)
Reclaiming the Epistemological Other: Narrative and the Social Constitution of Identity (1993) (664)
Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness, and the Right to Have Rights (2008) (502)
From Poverty to Perversity: Ideas, Markets, and Institutions over 200 Years of Welfare Debate (2005) (467)
Narrativity, Narrative Identity, and Social Action: Rethinking English Working-Class Formation (1992) (388)
Citizenship and the Place of the Public Sphere: Law, Community, and Political Culture in the Transition to Democracy (1993) (370)
What's Political or Cultural about Political Culture and the Public Sphere? Toward an Historical Sociology of Concept Formation* (1995) (210)
We're No Angels: Realism, Rational Choice, and Relationality in Social Science (1997) (199)
The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi's Critique (2014) (170)
Narrating and Naturalizing Civil Society and Citizenship Theory: The Place of Political Culture and the Public Sphere (1995) (166)
Symposium on Historical Sociology and Rational Choice Theory "We're No Angels": Realism, Rational Choice, and Relationality in Social Science1 (1998) (158)
Vision and Method in Historical Sociology: Beyond the Economistic Fallacy: The Holistic Social Science of Karl Polanyi (1984) (138)
The Power of Market Fundamentalism (2014) (122)
Rights, Relationality, and Membership: Rethinking the Making and Meaning of Citizenship (1994) (119)
Toward a New Sociology of Rights: A Genealogy of “Buried Bodies” of Citizenship and Human Rights (2008) (112)
In the Shadow of Speenhamland: Social Policy and the Old Poor Law (2003) (79)
Let them Eat Social Capital: Socializing the Market versus Marketizing the Social (2005) (40)
Sociology and Economics: Beware Trojan Horses Bearing Social Capital: How Privatization Turned Solidarity into a Bowling Team (2005) (27)
The Limits of Agronomic Determinism: A Critique of Paige's Agrarian Revolution (1979) (19)
Karl Polanyi in an Age of Uncertainty (2017) (11)
Workers of the World, Compare!@@@Working-Class Formation: Nineteenth-Century Patterns in Western Europe and the United States. (1989) (10)
Class formation and capitalism. A second look at a classic (1996) (8)
Citizenship, Statelessness and Market Fundamentalism: Arendtian Right to Have Rights (2006) (7)
CHAPTER 2. Deconstructing and Reconstructing Qass Formation Theory: Narrativity, Relational Analysis, and Social Theory (2019) (5)
Poverty and Piety (2006) (4)
Narrativity, Culture, and Causality: Toward a New Historical Epistemology, or Where is Sociology After the Historic Turn? (1990) (4)
Does Social Theory Need History? Reflections on the Epistemological Encounters in the Social Sciences (1989) (2)
Polanyi’s democratic socialist vision (2020) (2)
Political Culture and the Public Sphere: Rethinking the Making of Citizenship (1991) (2)
The Moral Economy of the Capitalist Crowd: Utopianism, the Reality of Society, and the Market as a Morally Instituted Process in Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation (2020) (2)
Against Polanyian orthodoxy: a reply to Hannes Lacher (2021) (2)
The Political Culture Concept: The Empirical Power of Conceptual Transformations (1992) (1)
Toward a predistributive democracy (2021) (1)
Politics and markets: The world's political-economic systems: Charles E. Lindblom. New York: Basic Books, 1978. 403 pages, $15 (1979) (1)
What's in a Name? Sociological Explanation and the Problem of Place (1995) (1)
Citizenship Troubles: Genealogies of Struggle for the Soul of the Social (2020) (1)
2. Beyond the Economistic Fallacy (2014) (1)
Social revolutions in the modern world: The uses of comparative history in macrosocial inquiry (1994) (1)
A People Without Social Relations is a People Without Property: Property, Relationality, and Social Networks in the Formation of Political Rights (1993) (1)
6. From Poverty to Perversity: Ideational Embeddedness and Market Fundamentalism over Two Centuries of Welfare Debate (2014) (1)
7. The Enduring Strength of Free Market Conservatism in the United States (2014) (0)
From Citizenship to Human Rights: Toward a Sociology of the "Right to Have Rights" (2006) (0)
Legal Predistribution, Market Justice, and Dedemocratization: Polanyi and Piketty on Law and Political Economy (2022) (0)
Fear and Loathing of the Public Sphere and the Privatization of Citizenship: How to Deconstruct a Knowledge Culture (1997) (0)
Beyond the Cultural Turn (2023) (0)
Al-Suwaidi, Jamal Sanad, From Tribe to Facebook: The Transformational Role of Social Networks. Abu Dhabi: The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research 2013. 165 pp., $11.00 paper (9789948146308) (2014) (0)
Dedemocratizing citizenship: how neoliberalism used market justice to move from welfare queening to authoritarianism in 25 short years (2022) (0)
On Colin Crouch's The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism. Cambridge, Polity, 2011 (2012) (0)
Social Insurance and the Economization of Citizenship: Toward a New Political Economy of Moral Worth (2016) (0)
REVIEW SYMPOSIUM Margaret R. Somers Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness and the Right to Have Rights . Cambridge, Cambridge On Genealogies of Citizenship by Margaret Somers (2011) (0)
4. Turning the Tables: Polanyi’s Critique of Free Market Utopianism (2014) (0)
1. Karl Polanyi and the Power of Ideas (2014) (0)
Sociology and economics. Beware Trojan Horses Bearing Social Capital: How Privatization Turned Solidarity into a Bowling Team (2020) (0)
8. The Reality of Society (2014) (0)
"Fear and Loathing of the Public Sphere and the Privatization of Citizenship: How to Deconstruct a . (1997) (0)

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