Seeing Others: Challenges to Recognition in a Changing World

About Michèle Lamont

Michèle Lamont is a professor of sociology at Harvard University, where she is also the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies. Her work explores morality, group boundaries, inequality, dignity, and recognition. She is the author of influential books including Money, Morals and Manners, The Dignity of Working Men, How Professors Think, and Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and How It Can Heal a Divided World (2023).

A former President of the American Sociological Association, Lamont is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the British Academy, and the Royal Society of Canada.

Her current research project, Recognition Globally, draws on over 300 interviews and international fieldwork in the U.S., the UK, Canada, Micronesia, and beyond to better understand how recognition can support more inclusive and resilient societies.

Praise for Seeing Others

"A must read."
— Joey Soloway, creator of Transparent

"In this powerful new book, Michèle Lamont illuminates how recognition must be part of the post-neoliberalism agenda."
— Thomas Piketty, economist and author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century

"Centering dignity in too often undignified times, Michèle Lamont has given us a powerful new lens for seeing each other."
— Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University

"Seeing Others will change the way you see the world, and yourself."
— Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of Strangers in Their Own Land