Swidler, Ann
SWIDLER, Ann
SWIDLER, Ann. American, b. 1944. Genres: Education, Sociology. Career: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, assistant professor of sociology, 1975- 79; Stanford University, Stanford, CA, assistant professor of sociology, 1979-87; University of California, Berkeley, associate professor of sociology, 1987-. Publications: Organization without Authority: Dilemmas of Social Control in Free Schools, 1979; (with others) Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life, 1985; (with others) The Good Society, 1991; Talk of Love, 2001; (ed. with others) Meaning and Modernity, 2001. Address: Department of Sociology, 404b Barrows Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1980, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]
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