Andrew Abbott
Professor
B.A. Harvard University, 1970
M.A. University of Chicago, 1975
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1982
Office: Social Sciences 313
Phone: 773-702-4545
Email: a-abbott@uchicago.edu
Homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~aabbott/
CV: Curriculum Vita (PDF)
Andrew Abbott is the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor.
Abbott's major research interests lie in the sociology of occupations, professions, and work, the sociology of culture and knowledge, and social theory. His current theoretical focus is the study of action, meaning, and emotion. Abbott also has longstanding interests in methods, heuristics, and the philosophy and practice of sociology.
Abbott's major current writing project is a book of general social theory setting for a processual ontology of the social world. He isalso undertaking numerous empirical projects aimed at working out the details of that theory – on occupational therapy, on career mobility, on intellectual disciplines. He is also working on a large project on the professions and capitalism.
