Sarah Soule
Sarah Soule | |
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| Alma mater | Cornell University |
| Thesis | The student anti-apartheid movement in the United States : diffusion of protest tactics and policy reform (1995) |
Sarah A. Soule is an American sociologist who is the Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior and director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. She is known for her work on organizational behavior, social movements, political sociology, and policy change and diffusion.
Education and career
[edit]Soule studied Sociology and Political Science at the University of Vermont, receiving her B.A. in 1989. She completed both her M.A. in Sociology in 1991 and Ph.D. in Sociology in 1995 at Cornell University.[1] She started her professional academic career at the University of Arizona in 1995, and was promoted to professor by 2005.[2] After briefly working at Cornell University, she started as a professor at Stanford University in 2008. In 2009 she was promoted to the position of Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior, and 2016 she was named senior associate dean for academic affairs at Stanford Graduate School of Business.[1] In 2023 she was named director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.[2]
Research
[edit]Soule's research focuses on organizational behavior, social movements, political sociology, and policy change and diffusion. Her book, Contention and Corporate Social Responsibility, looks at the role of social movements and activism in corporate action and social accountability.[3] She has spoken about the increase in politics in the workspace in the United States,[4][5] and establishing a business program designed to increase the presence of LGBT people in business leadership.[6]
Selected publications
[edit]- Soule, Sarah A. (1997). "The Student Divestment Movement in the United States and Tactical Diffusion: The Shantytown Protest". Social Forces. 75 (3): 855–882. doi:10.2307/2580522. JSTOR 2580522.
- Strang, David; Soule, Sarah A. (1998). "Diffusion in Organizations and Social Movements: From Hybrid Corn to Poison Pills". Annual Review of Sociology. 24 (1): 265–290. doi:10.1146/annurev.soc.24.1.265. ISSN 0360-0572.
- Snow, David A.; Soule, Sarah A.; Kriesi, Hanspeter (2008-04-15). The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-99909-7.[7]
- Soule, Sarah A. (2009). Contention and Corporate Social Responsibility. Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-89840-9. [8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Sarah A. Soule". Stanford Graduate School of Business. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
- ^ a b Sciences, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral (2023-02-01). "Organizational Behavior Scholar Sarah Soule Named Next CASBS Director". Social Science Space. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
- ^ Soule, Sarah A. (2009). Contention and Corporate Social Responsibility. Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-89840-9.
- ^ Cooper, Marianne (2017-03-24). "The Tech Industry Joins the Political Fray". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2023-10-08.
- ^ Goldberg, Emma (2020-01-11). "'Techlash' Hits College Campuses". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-10-08.
- ^ Peak, Krystal (June 10, 2016). "Can LGBT executive training build a ladder for next generation of leaders?". San Francisco Business Times.
- ^ Reviews for The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements
- Ohlemacher, Thomas (2005). "David A. Snow, Sarah A. Soule und Hanspeter Kriesi (Hg.): The Blackwell companion to social movements: Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2004. 754 Seiten. ISBN 0-631-22669-9. Preis: £ 95,-/$ 134,95". KZFSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie (in German). 57 (3): 561–563. doi:10.1007/s11577-005-0193-6. ISSN 0023-2653.
- "The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements". Reference Reviews. 18 (8). Martin Guha: 16. 2004-12-01. doi:10.1108/09504120410565648. ISSN 0950-4125.
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- ^ Reviews for Contention and Corporate Social Responsibility
- Jones, Ellis (2010). "Review of Contention and Corporate Social Responsibility". American Journal of Sociology. 116 (3): 1022–1024. doi:10.1086/657358. ISSN 0002-9602. JSTOR 10.1086/657358.
- Glasberg, Davita Silfen (2010). "Review of Contention and Corporate Social Responsibility". Contemporary Sociology. 39 (4): 482–483. ISSN 0094-3061. JSTOR 27857208.
External links
[edit]- Sarah Soule publications indexed by Google Scholar
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