Neil Fligstein

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Neil David Fligstein (born May 23, 1951 in Seattle , Washington ) is an American sociologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley . He heads the Center for Culture, Organization, and Politics at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment in Berkeley as Director. He became known through his work in the field of economic and political sociology . In particular, he is a specialist in organizational sociology . In his research he also turned to questions about the development of the European Union and a European identity . He strongly influenced economic sociology through his concept of “market as politics”, which he developed into his own approach based on the theoretical foundations of Harrison White and Pierre Bourdieu . In it he dealt with the processes of the emergence of new markets and the role that corporate policies (conceptions of control) play.

Life

Fligstein attended Reed College , Portland, Oregon, where in 1973, he in the subject psychology with the work A Comparison of Three Theories of Associative Memory the title Bachelor of Arts acquired. At the University of Wisconsin – Madison , he laid the foundation for a Master of Science degree in 1976 in sociology with the work The Military, the Draft, and the GI Bill: Their Effect on the Lives of American Males, 1940–1973 . With the work The Migration of Blacks and Whites from Counties of the South, 1900–1950: A Social, Historical, and Demographic Account , he received his Ph.D. , also in the field of sociology. Fligstein began his professional career from 1979 to 1991 as an assistant, associate and full professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Arizona in Tucson . In 1991 he became a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley . He served as chair of his faculty from 1992 to 1996. Since 1997 he has been the Class of 1939 Chancellor's Professor there . He held various temporary positions and visiting professorships from 1980 to 1982 at the University of Chicago , from 1998 to 1999 at the European University Institute in Florence and in 2013 at the Berlin Social Science Center . Fligstein has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2010 .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Doug McAdam: A Theory of Fields . New York: Oxford University Press, 2012
  • Euroclash: The EU, European Identity, and the Future of Europe . Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2008
  • The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Capitalist Societies . Princeton University Press, 2001; German title: The architecture of the markets . Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-15964-5
  • with Wayne Sandholtz and Alec Stone: The Institutionalization of Europe . Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2001
  • Markets, Politics, and Globalization . The 1996 Uppsala Lectures in Business, Uppsala, Sweden: Uppsala University Press, 1997
  • The Transformation of Corporate Control . Harvard University Press, 1990
  • Going North: The Migration of Blacks and Whites from Counties of the South. 1900-1950 . Academic Press, 1981

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Patrik Aspers: Markets . Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-08779-1 , p. 132 ( Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Fligstein, Neil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fligstein, Neil David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Seattle , Washington