Rick Fantasia
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Rick Fantasia is the Barbara Richmond 1940 Professor
in the Social Sciences
at Smith College
in the United States and Director of its Kahn Liberal Arts Institute.
He frequently conducts research in France
, and his research interests include the interaction between labor and culture in the United States
and France. He was particularly influenced by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu
, and is the Director of the Louise W. and Edmund J. Kahn Liberal Arts Institute.
Professor
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in the Social Sciences
Social sciences
Social science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...
at Smith College
Smith College
Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. It is the largest member of the Seven Sisters...
in the United States and Director of its Kahn Liberal Arts Institute.
He frequently conducts research in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, and his research interests include the interaction between labor and culture in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and France. He was particularly influenced by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher.Starting from the role of economic capital for social positioning, Bourdieu pioneered investigative frameworks and terminologies such as cultural, social, and symbolic capital, and the concepts of habitus, field or location,...
, and is the Director of the Louise W. and Edmund J. Kahn Liberal Arts Institute.
Publications
- Cultures of Solidarity. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1988
- (co authored with Maurice IssermanMaurice IssermanMaurice Isserman is James L. Ferguson Professor of History at Hamilton College and an important contributor to the “new history of American communism” which reinterpreted the role of the Communist Party USA during the Popular Front period of the 1930s and 1940s. His books have also traced the...
) Homelessness: A Sourcebook. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1994) - (co-editored with Rhonda F. Levine and Scott G. McNall). Bringing Class Back In: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991
- (co-authored with Kim VossKim VossKim Voss is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley whose main field of research is social movements and the American labor movement.-Education and career:...
) Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2004. Published in France as Des Syndicats Domestiqués: Répression patronale et résistance syndicale aux États-Unis. Paris: Editions Raisons d’Agir, 2003. - The Magic of Americanism: French Gastronomy in the Age of Neo-Liberalism. In preparation.
External links
- Rick Fantasia, Professor & Study Abroad Adviser on Smith College Sociology pages.