Ann Swidler
| Ann Swidler | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 11, 1944 |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Sociological Theory, Social Network Analysis, Mathematical Sociology |
| Institutions | University of California-Berkeley |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University (B.A) University of California-Berkeley (MAPhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | Arlie Hochschild |
| Doctoral students | John Levi Martin |
| Known for | Cultural sociology, Talk of Love: How Culture Matters |
Ann Swidler (born December 11, 1944) is an American sociologist and Professor of Sociology at University of California-Berkeley. Swidler is most commonly known as a cultural sociologist and authored one of the most-cited articles in sociology, Culture in action: Symbols and strategies.
Swidler graduated from Harvard University with a BA in 1966 and received her MA in 1971 and PhD in 1975 from the University of California-Berkeley. Her dissertation was titled "Organization without Authority: A Study of Two Alternative Schools," it was published as a book in 1979 as Organization without authority: Dilemmas of social control in free schools. Her advisor was Arlie Hochschild, and was also mentored by Robert Bellah, Reinhard Bendix, and Neil Smelser.
In 1982 she was a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. With sociologists John W. Meyer and W. Richard Scott, Swidler received funding from the Russell Sage Foundation for "Due Process in Organizations," and in 2009-10 she was a Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar. In 2013 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Habits of the Heart (1985), co-authored with Robert Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, and Steven M. Tipton, was finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 1986, won the Los Angeles Times Book Award in 1985 and received Highest Honors for a Book in Education from the American Educational Studies Association. Habits of the Heart sold over 500,000 copies which, according to sociologist Edward Tiryakian, places the work among "that rare breed of sociological works: a literary event, with sales figures beyond the total number of practicing sociologists in the world, past and present."
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