Meaning & Measurement Mini-Conference
Craig Rawlings— University of California, Santa BarbaraMy work focuses on the comparative institutional analysis of "turning points"
in the structuration of organizational fields, and modeling these shifts to reveal important cultural processes of meaning-making in action. I've had the honor of studying cultural sociology at two hotbeds for this burgeoning field -- first, at Rutgers University where I received my MA, and presently at UCSB where I am a PhD candidate. My dissertation is a comparative study, which employs formal methods to model the proliferation and differentiation of kinds of degree labels in two fields of US higher education -- business and engineering -- since the mid-1960s as a window into how organizational fields dually reflect and produce stereotypical status distinctions.
