Orville Lee - Associate Professor of Culture and Media

Lee, Orville

Orville Lee

PhD, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley;
MA, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley;
AB, History, Washington University

Associate Professor of Culture and Media

Profile:

My research is primarily focused in the areas of social theory/social thought, cultural sociology, and the sociology of knowledge. These areas have overlapped in several research projects: a theoretical reconstruction of the concept of race in the social sciences; explorations of the languages social scientists use to understand the relationship between culture and power; and the analysis of concept of meaning and its place in interpretive sociology.

Courses Taught:

Classics in Social Thought: Marx, Durkheim, Weber
Culture Concept: Society, History, Critique
Symbolic Struggles: Culture, Conflict, and Consensus in the U. S.
Psychoanalysis and Society
Heterodox Identities: Racial Passing in Media and Performance
Understanding Inequality and Social Policy

Recent Publications:

Desire for Race (Cambridge University Press, November 2008)
“Race After the Cultural Turn” in Mark Jacobs and Nancy Hanrahan eds., The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Culture, 2004
Legal Weapons for the Weak? Democratizing the Force of Words in an Uncivil Society,” Law & Social Inquiry 26, 2001
“Classifying Acts: State Speech, Race, and Democracy,” Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory8, 2001
“The Constitution of Meaning: On the Practical Conditions of Social Understanding,” Current Perspectives in Social Theory 20, 2000

Office Location:

Lang College
457, 65 W. 11th Street

Office Hours:

Tues. 2-4 pm

Email:
LeeO@newschool.edu

Research Interests:

Politics and cultural processes; Interpretation and the social sciences; Symbolic power, norms, and social critique; Psychoanalysis; Otto Gross

Professional Affiliations:

American Sociological Association
Editorial Council, Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory

Awards and Honors:

Distinguished University Teaching Award. New School University. 2004
Outstanding Article of 1999. Awarded by the Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association for “Culture and Democratic Theory: Toward a Theory of Symbolic Democracy,” Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory 5, 4 (December 1998): 433-455.

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