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Known for his ecological theories of occupations, Abbott has also pioneered algorithmic analysis of social sequence data. He has written on the foundations of social science methodology and on the evolution of the social sciences and the academic system. He is the author of five books and seventy articles and chapters. His work includes The System of Professions (Chicago 1988), a theoretical analysis of the professions and their development that won the ASA's Sorokin Award in 1991. More recent books include a historical study of academic disciplines and publication (Department and Discipline [Chicago 1999]) and a theoretical analysis of fractal patterns in social and cultural structures Chaos of Disciplines [Chicago 2001]). Abbott has also published a collection of theoretical essays in the Chicago pragmatist and ecological tradition (Time Matters [Chicago 2001]) and a short introduction to heuristics in the social sciences (Methods of Discovery [Norton 2004]). Abbott's long term project is a general work of social theory entitled The Social Process. His near-term project is a book on the future of knowledge, growing out of his extensive recent writing on the theory and history of library research and on knowledge practices more generally. He has just completed a text on library and internet research that reflects both his recent research and his experience in a longtime practicum course for library research projects. An active teacher, Abbott has served on or chaired 93 dissertation committees, and his students teach at universities and colleges throughout the United States. He served from 1993 to 1996 as Master of Chicago's Social Science Collegiate Division and as Chair of the Department of Sociology from 1999-2002. He has also chaired the University's Library Board and the task force planning the future of the University's libraries. Abbott edited Work and Occupations from 1991 to 1994 and has edited the American Journal of Sociology since 2000. He was President of the Social Science History Association in 2002/3. Abbott was Norman Chester Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, in 1997 and has continued to visit Oxford regularly since. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2011 received the degree of Docteur Honoris Causa from the Universite de Versailles St-Quentin- en-Yvelines. |
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