ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Wuthnow.OutsidePrinceton,thosewhohavecommented onsections
bearing
ontheirarea ofexpertiseincludeHerrickChapman,Adrian
Favell,MiriamFeldblum,GaryGerstle,VirginieGuiraudon,Gerard
Noiriel,EmmanuelleSaada,HilarySilver,andHowardWinant.Ithank
themallfortheirtimeand
wiseadvice.Otherpeoplewhohavecon
tributedinsmallandbig
waysbytheirfriendshipandknowledge,orby
helpingmesolvepracticalproblems,includeJeffreyAlexander,Sophie
Body-Gendrot,LucBoltanski,DianaCrane,AlainDesrosieres,Nancy
DiTomaso,JoeFeagin,CynthiaFuchsEpstein,KathleenGerson,
MugeGocek,ClaudeGrignon,DavidHalle,RandyHodson,James
Jasper,JaneMansbridge,SarahRosenfeld,MagaliSurfatti-Larson,
MichaelSchudson,RichardSennett,YaseminSoysal,Laurent
Thevenot,andMaryWaters.
Thesuccess
ofthisprojectdepended onanumberofresearchassis
tantsinvariousphases oftheresearch.AmongthosewhohelpedIwant
tothankinparticulartheveryableSarahCaban,AlexandraKalev,and
ViragMolnar,whoprovidedconsiderablehelpandenthusiasminthe
lasttwoyears
oftheproject.OtherPrincetonstudentswhohave
worked
ontheprojectincludeBethanyBryson,KieranHealy,Jason
Kaufman,MichaelMoody,
AnnMorning,JohnSchmalzbauer,
MaureenWaller,andDanielWeber.InParis,Ibenefitedgreatlyfrom
theassistance
ofCyrilLemieux.
Aspects
ofmyargumentwerepresentedtoanumber ofaudiences
overtheyearsinconferencesandatcolloquiaatAlborgUniversity,
CornellUniversity,CUNY-GraduateCenter,DukeUniversity,the
Ecoledeshautesetudesensciencessociales,theEuropeanUniversity
Institute,theFondationnationaledesciencepolitique,HarvardUni
versity,HebrewUniversity,HowardUniversity,theInstituteforAd
vancedStudy,theInstitutInternationaldeParis-LaDefense,McGill
University,theNationalConference
ofNorwegianSociology,theNew
SchoolforSocialResearch,NewYorkUniversity,NorthwesternUni
versity,theRussell
SageFoundation,RutgersUniversity,theSchom
burgCenter,TelAvivUniversity,TempleUniversity,Universitede
Montreal,UniversitedeParisIV-Nanterre,theUniversity
ofCalifornia
atSantaBarbara,theUniversity
ofCaliforniaatDavis,theUniversity
ofCaliforniaatSanDiego,theUniversity ofChicago,theUniversity
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