Professor
Viviana A. Zelizer
Princeton University
Sociologist; Educator
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Sociology, Demography, and Geography
Elected
2007
Blazed distinctive, intellectual trail through the forest of interpersonal relations, in which the relationship between economic activity and personal life is changing or in dispute. Influential books, Pricing the Priceless Child (1985), The Purchase of Intimacy (2005), and others, follow a remarkable progression, each new one picking up problems from its predecessor, yet taking a new approach that forces other scholars to rethink their own presuppositions.
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