and been elected to the British Academy, Royal Society of Canada, Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes académiques, and the Sociological Research Association.

[citation needed] From 2002 to 2019, Lamont served as co-director of the Successful Societies Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

[6] The group has produced two books: Successful Societies: How Institutions and Culture Affect Health[7] (2009) and Social Resilience in the Neo-Liberal Era[8] (2013).

[10] She also collaborated with a team of ecologists and economists from the Beijer Institute and the Stockholm Resilience Center (Royal Academy of Sweden), on "Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere," which became the White Paper for the 2021 Nobel Summit on sustainability (2021).

[2] Lamont's major works compare how people's shared concepts of worth influence and sustain a variety of social hierarchies and inequality.

Recent publications include the Erasmus Prize-winning essay, "Prisms of Inequality: Moral Boundaries, Exclusion, and Academic Evaluation"; her co-authored book, Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel; and her presidential address to the ASA in June 2018.

[citation needed] Lamont's early writing formulated influential criticisms of the work of Pierre Bourdieu, a sociologist with whom she studied in Paris.

With fellow sociologists Ann Swidler, Michael Schudson, and numerous others, Lamont contributed to setting the agenda for the scholarly study of "meaning-making" in sociology.

The research of Lamont and colleagues demonstrated the importance of considering various aspects of culture as explanans and explanandum in the social sciences as something more than a "residual category".

They also propose the distinction between "symbolic" and "social" boundaries provides a framework within which to analyze the independent causal role of individual's worldviews in explaining structural phenomena such as inequality.