Seeing Others: A Conversation with Michèle Lamont

I recently sat down with Michèle Lamont, Mari Sanchez, and Shira Zilberstein to chat about Michèle’s new book and our respective studies on college students navigating COVID-19. You can find our recorded conversation, along with a lightly-edited transcript, on the Contexts blog.

Watch our conversation here.

Read more:

Michèle Lamont. 2023. Seeing Others: How Recognition Works—and How It Can Heal a Divided World. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Mari Sanchez, Michèle Lamont, and Shira Zilberstein. 2022. “How American College Students Understand Social Resilience and Navigate towards the Future during Covid and the Movement for Racial Justice,” Social Science & Medicine 301.

Elena G. van Stee. 2023. “Privileged Dependence, Precarious Autonomy: Parent/Young Adult Relationships through the Lens of COVID-19,” Journal of Marriage and Family 85(1).

Shira Zilberstein, Michèle Lamont, and Mari Sanchez. 2023. “Recreating a Plausible Future: Combining Cultural Repertoires in Unsettled Times,” Sociological Science 10.