Omar Lizardo

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame

email: olizardo@nd.edu

Address: Department of Sociology University of Notre Dame, 810 Flanner Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556

Selected Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Sociology of Culture

Stephen Vaisey and Omar Lizardo. 2009. "Can cultural worldviews influence network composition?'." Social Forces (forthcoming). [pdf]

Omar Lizardo. 2009. "The Devil as cognitive mapping." Rethinking Marxism (forthcoming). [pdf]

Omar Lizardo. 2009. "The Comparative Analysis of Organizational Forms: Integrating Field and Ecological Approaches."Research in the Sociology of Organizations (forthcoming). [pdf]

Omar Lizardo. 2009. "Culture and stratification." Forthcoming in John R. Hall, Laura Grindstaff and Ming-cheng Lo (Eds.) Sociology of Culture: a Handbook. London: Routledge. [pdf]

Omar Lizardo and Sara Skiles. 2009. "Highbrow omnivorousness on the small screen? Cultural industry systems and patterns of cultural choice in Europe." Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts 37: 1-23. [pdf]

Omar Lizardo. 2008. "The question of culture consumption and stratification revisited." Sociologica 2/2008, doi: 10.2383/27709. [pdf] [html]

Omar Lizardo. 2008. "Understanding the flow of symbolic goods in the global cultural economy." International Journal of Contemporary Sociology 45: 13-34. [pdf]

Omar Lizardo and Sara Skiles. 2008. "Cultural consumption in the fine and popular arts realms." Sociology Compass 2: 485–502. [pdf]

Jeff Larson and Omar Lizardo. 2007. "Generations, identities and the collective memory of Che Guevara." Sociological Forum 22: 425-451. [pdf]

Omar Lizardo. 2007. "Fight club or, the cultural contradictions of late capitalism." Journal for Cultural Research 11: 221-243. [pdf]

Omar Lizardo. 2006. "How cultural tastes shape personal networks." American Sociological Review 71: 778-807. [pdf] [supplementary analyses]

Omar Lizardo. 2006. "The puzzle of women’s 'highbrow' culture consumption: integrating gender and work into Bourdieu’s class theory of taste." Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts 34: 1-23. [pdf]

Omar Lizardo. 2005. "Can cultural capital theory be reconsidered in the light of world polity institutionalism? Evidence from Spain." Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts 33: 81-110. [pdf]

Sociological Theory

Omar Lizardo. (Forthcoming). "Taking representational-dualism seriously: Revisiting the Durkheim-Spencer debate on the rise of individualism." Sociological Perspectives. [pdf ]

Omar Lizardo. (forthcoming). "Is a ‘special psychology’ of practice possible? From values and attitudes to embodied dispositions." Theory and Psychology . [pdf]

Jessica Collett and Omar Lizardo. 2009. "A Power-control theory of gender and religiosity." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 48: 213-231. [pdf]

Omar Lizardo. 2009. "Formalism, Behavioral Realism and the Interdisciplinary Challenge in Sociological Theory." Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 39: 39-79. [pdf]

Omar Lizardo. 2007. "'Mirror neurons,' collective objects and the problem of transmission: reconsidering Stephen Turner's critique of practice theory." Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 37: 319-350. [pdf]

Omar Lizardo. 2004. "The cognitive origins of Bourdieu’s habitus." Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 34: 375-401. [pdf] [errata]

International Relations and World Systems Analysis

Omar Lizardo. 2008. "Defining and Theorizing Terrorism: A Global Actor-Centered Approach."Journal of World Systems Research 14: 91-118. [pdf]

Omar Lizardo. 2006. "The effect of economic and cultural globalization on anti-U.S. transnational terrorism: 1971-2000."Journal of World Systems Research 12: 149-186. [pdf]

Omar Lizardo. 2006. "Foreign terrorism." Social Issues in America: An Encyclopedia. New York: M.E. Sharpe. [pdf]

Albert J. Bergesen and Omar Lizardo. 2005. "Terrorism and hegemonic decline." Pp. 227-240 in Jonathan Friedman and Christopher Chase-Dunn (eds.) Hegemonic Declines: Present and Past. Political Economy of World-Systems Annuals, Vol. XXVI-b. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers.[pdf]

Albert Bergesen and Omar Lizardo. 2004. "International terrorism and the world system." Sociological Theory 22: 38-52. [pdf]

Omar Lizardo and Albert Bergesen. 2003. "Types of terrorism by world-system location." Humboldt Journal of Social Relations 27: 162-192. [pdf]

Albert Bergesen and Omar Lizardo. 2002. "Terrorism and world-systems theory." Pp. 9-23 in Ryszard Stemplowski (ed.) Transnational Terrorism in the World System Perspective. Warsaw: The Polish Institute of International Affairs.

Book Reviews and Other Short Pieces

Omar Lizardo. 2010. "Cultural capital." Entry in Dale Southerton, Diana Crane Karin Ekstrm, Peter Jackson, Frank Trentmann, Alan Warde and Richard Wilk (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture. Washington, DC: CQ Press. [pdf]

Omar Lizardo and Jessica Collett. 2009. "Rescuing the Baby from the Bathwater: Continuing the Conversation on Gender, Risk, and Religiosity." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 48: 256-259. [pdf]

Omar Lizardo. 2009. "Letter to the editor." Harvard Business Review 87: 106. [pdf] [html]

Omar Lizardo. 2008. "Comments to the editor." Sociological Forum 23: 850-851. [pdf]

Omar Lizardo. 2008. "The question of culture consumption and stratification revisited: A response to the Comments." Sociologica 2/2008, doi: 10.2383/27736. [pdf] [html]

Omar Lizardo. 2008. "Three cheers for unoriginality: Comment on John Goldthorpe/5." Sociologica 1/2008, doi: 10.2383/26580. [pdf ] [html ]

Omar Lizardo. 2008. Review of Exotic Commodities: Modern Objects and Everyday Life in China by Frank Dikotter. American Journal of Sociology 114: 530-532. [pdf ]

Omar Lizardo. 2007. Review of Organ Without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences by Slavoj Zizek. Theory, Culture and Society 24: 142-146. [pdf]

Omar Lizardo. 2007. Review of Cities, War, and Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics edited by Stephen Graham. International Sociology 22: 595-599. [pdf ]

Omar Lizardo. 2006. "Peter Blau." Entry in George Ritzer (ed.) Encyclopedia of Sociology. New York: Blackwell. [pdf]

Omar Lizardo. 2006. "Relational Cohesion Theory." Entry in George Ritzer (ed.) Encyclopedia of Sociology. New York: Blackwell. [pdf]

Omar Lizardo. 2006. Review of Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World edited by Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat. Journal of World Systems Research 12: 203-207. [pdf]

Omar Lizardo. 2004. Review of The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the ‘Model Minority’ edited by Eric Mark Kramer. Contemporary Sociology 33: 422-424. [pdf]

Omar Lizardo. 2003. Review of The Empire of Disorder by Alain Joxe. Journal of World Systems Research 9: 174-177. [pdf]