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Paul DiMaggio

Princeton Foundation for Peace & Learning Founders’ Circle Member

Affiliation

Social Science

Field of Study

Sociology
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At IAS, Paul DiMaggio is working on a book that develops a framework for the social-scientific study of culture that takes into account recent work on social cognition and cognitive neuroscience, and applies it to a series of puzzles: How does meaning work? What are values? How (and when) do elements of a culture cohere? How does culture change?

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Social Science

Degrees

Harvard University
Ph.D.
1979
Harvard University
M.A.
1977
Swarthmore College
B.A.
1971

Honors

2016
Elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society
2009
Elected to membership in American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2007
Graduate Mentoring Award for the Social Sciences, Princeton University
2004
Elected to membership in American of Political and Social science

Appointments

Princeton University
1992–2016
Professor of Sociology & Public Affairs
Russell Sage Foundation
2011–2012
Visiting Fellow
Yale University
1979–1992
Postdoc through Full Professor
Center for Advance Study in the Behavioral Sciences
1984–1985
Visiting Fellow