Theorizing Narrative: Analogies and Differences and Close Relationships as Microcultures - Incite at Columbia University

As part of the Narrative Workshop, Diane Vaughan and Emma Miller joins us from the Sociology and Psychology department at Columbia University to discuss "Theorizing Narrative: Analogies and Differences” and “Close Relationships as Microcultures”.

The Narrative Workshop has limited capacity. To inquire about joining, please contact Dian Sheng or Amy Weissenbach.

About Diane Waughan 

Diane Vaughan received her Ph.D. in Sociology, Ohio State University, 1979, and taught at Boston College from 1984 to 2005. Her research focus is on institutional persistence, change, culture and cognition, and agency. Challenger and Dead Reckoning are both historical ethnographies that explore the production of scientific and technical knowledge in complex socio-technical systems across time and social space. Her theoretical framing examines system effects: how events in the institutional environment - historical, political, economic, cultural – affect organizations, changing them, and how, in turn those changes affect the architecture, technology, task, and culture of the workplace and thus the cognition and action of the people who work there. Far from a top-down model, she is interested in the response of individuals and groups to these institutional contingencies.

About Emma Miller

Emma Miller is a PhD student in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University and a Graduate Fellow at Incite, holding a MA in Psychology from New York University and a BA in History from Brown University. Her research investigates the emergence of shared reality as a psychological state in conversation and the development of microcultures in close relationships. She draws from an interdisciplinary set of theoretical and methodological approaches across social psychology, relational sociology, and computational social science.