| Professor Department of Sociology University of California, Irvine Personal Homepage(Department of Sociology) |
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| Research Interests （研究テーマ） |
Social Movements, Democracy, Culture, Gender, Social Theory |
| Research Areas （研究地域・対象国） |
America (USA) |
| Research in 50 Words （研究の紹介） |
I study social movements, culture, and democracy. Right now, I’m trying to account for the surprising popularity of participatory forms of decision making across diverse spheres-in business and popular culture as well as politics and social movements. Some observers have hailed a new age of democracy while others have been more skeptical. I ask instead what ordinary people want and expect of democracy in their workplaces and civic organizations, schools and movements. Where do their models of what democracy is and requires come from? And what consequences do those models have for what people want and get from their political and economic institutions? |
| Selected Works （主要論文・著書） |
• Polletta, Francesca and Pang Ching Bobby Chen. 2013. "Gender and public talk: accounting for women's variable participation in the public sphere." Sociological Theory 31:291-317. • Polletta, Francesca. 2013. "Participatory democracy in the new millennium." Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 42:40-50. • Polletta, Francesca. 2006. It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics University of Chicago Press. • Polletta, Francesca. 2002. Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements University of Chicago Press. |
| In Our Conference （この国際学術会議での発表） |
TBA |
| In XVIII ISA World Congress （国際社会学会での報告） |
(1) Chair Session: Democracy Now: Are New Understandings of Radical Democracy Transforming Its Practice? Date&Time: Friday, July 18, 2014: 8:30 AM-10:20 AM Location: Pacifico Yokohama (2) Session Organizer Session: Democracy Now. Part II --- RC48 Social Movements, Collective Actions and Social Change (host committee) Date&Time: Friday, July 18, 2014: 10:30 AM-12:20 PM Location: Pacifico Yokohama |