Lynne G. Sugar

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Lynne Goodman Zucker is an American professor in the Department of Sociology and Policy Studies at UCLA . She is one of the most important representatives of sociological neo-institutionalism .

Life

Zucker studied sociology and psychology at Wells College in Aurora, NY , from which she graduated with a BA in 1966. She then moved to Stanford University , where she received her MA in Sociology in 1969. By 1974 she also did her doctorate at Stanford. There she worked in close cooperation with John W. Meyer . After completing her doctorate, she moved to UCLA, where she was a lecturer in the Department of Sociology from 1974 to 1975 . From 1975 to 1981 she was promoted to Assistant Professor , then Associated Professor (1981-1989). Since 1989 she has held the professorship in the Department of Sociology. In 1996, Zucker also took on a professorship in the Department of Policy Studies.

Memberships

Since 1989, Zucker has been an elected member of the Macro Organizational Behavior Society (MOBS). She was appointed to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in 1994 , where she has worked as a research assistant ever since. Since 1996 she has been director of the Center for International Science, Technology, and Cultural Policy at UCLA.

Scientific work

Lynne Zucker was best known for her laboratory experiments , a very unusual research method in sociology, which she carried out in the late 1970s. Zucker found out that organizations are interpreted by people as a specific situation to which they assign certain patterns of interpretation and action. In doing so, she demonstrates a culturally mediated influence on individual actions within the framework of organizations. The actions of people who assume that they act in organizations show a high degree of permanence and transferability, Zucker speaks of institutionalized actions. These do not have to be ensured by monitoring, but rather form a value in themselves as a social fact. This research establishes her reputation as one of the most important representatives of the microsociological approach in sociological neo-institutionalism.

Today, Lynne Zucker mainly works with rational choice theories. Her main research interests include organizational theory, institutional structures and processes, knowledge generation and knowledge transfer. Your writings have not yet been translated into German.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lynne Goodman Zucker ( Memento April 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ cf. Lynne Zucker: The role of institutionalization in cultural persistance , in: American Sociological Review, 1977, 42, pp. 726-743.
personal data
SURNAME Zucker, Lynne G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sugar, Lynne Goodman (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1944