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A Journey of Discovering SociologyInterview 6 Frank Dobbin

A Journey of Discovering Sociology: Interview 6 Frank Dobbin Frank Dobbin Profile: Frank Dobbin is chair of the joint Arts & Sciences/Harvard Business School Organizational Behavior Ph.D. Program, director of the SCANCOR/Weatherhead Initiative in International Organizational Studies, and Co-Coordinator of the MIT- Harvard Economic Sociology Seminar. He received his B.A. in sociology from Oberlin College in 1980 and his Ph.D. in sociology from Stanford University in 1987, and took his first faculty position at Indiana University (1987–1988) and then he was appointed as the assistant professor, associate professor, and professor at Princeton University from 1988 to 2002. He moved to Harvard University as a full-time professor for sociology in 2003. Dobbin studies organizations, inequality, economic behavior, and public policy and is most well-known for his work in economic sociology. He won the Marx Weber Award twice for his books Forging Industrial Policy: United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age and Inventing Equal Opportunity. Interview March 18, 2017 William James Hall, Harvard University Professor, what sociology is in your eyes? Sociology more than other disciplines studies all kinds of social institutions which makes, I think, the most fun field to be in because you can change what you study all the times, you can study social movements, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Journey of Discovering SociologyInterview 6 Frank Dobbin

Editors: Chen, Long
Dobbin, Frank
A Journey of Discovering Sociology — Aug 14, 2020
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Springer Singapore
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© Peking University Press 2020
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978-981-15-6602-8
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49 –60
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Frank Dobbin Profile: Frank Dobbin is chair of the joint Arts & Sciences/Harvard Business School Organizational Behavior Ph.D. Program, director of the SCANCOR/Weatherhead Initiative in International Organizational Studies, and Co-Coordinator of the MIT- Harvard Economic Sociology Seminar. He received his B.A. in sociology from Oberlin College in 1980 and his Ph.D. in sociology from Stanford University in 1987, and took his first faculty position at Indiana University (1987–1988) and then he was appointed as the assistant professor, associate professor, and professor at Princeton University from 1988 to 2002. He moved to Harvard University as a full-time professor for sociology in 2003. Dobbin studies organizations, inequality, economic behavior, and public policy and is most well-known for his work in economic sociology. He won the Marx Weber Award twice for his books Forging Industrial Policy: United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age and Inventing Equal Opportunity. Interview March 18, 2017 William James Hall, Harvard University Professor, what sociology is in your eyes? Sociology more than other disciplines studies all kinds of social institutions which makes, I think, the most fun field to be in because you can change what you study all the times, you can study social movements,

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