Daniel Menchik

University of Chicago, Department of Sociology

My work is oriented towards three interrelated areas, and the theoretical frameworks needed to understand them.

The first is the organization and dynamics of how knowledge is deployed, warranted, and transformed into norms. My second focus has been on the way professionals generate esteem in an organization. The third is the role of language in face-to-face and mediated interaction, and the way people in either of these contexts confront and overcome the problems of assigning meaning to an utterance and of ensuring these words make sense to others.

My dissertation research and other projects are described at http://menchik.com