Philip Lewin
(Curriculum Vitae) Philip Lewin graduated from the University of Georgia in 2005 with degrees in sociology and political science and began graduate work in 2006. His interests span the discipline but tend to center in the areas of work, organizations and culture. At a very basic level, he is interested in how people experience their working lives and what work means to them, especially in relation to Marxian notions of alienation. He is further interested in how social control mechanisms within organizations have evolved into increasingly advanced forms.
Mr. Lewin's current research concerns how everyday forms of employee resistance transform structures of power in the workplace; he is particularly interested in how worker narratives spatially, temporally and socially extend such acts. Past projects have included an exploration of punk subculture with an attentiveness to the processes through which punks cultivate and maintain identities while resisting incorporation into dominant culture, and an ethnographic study of the social world of high school debate, which found that ambitious, socially-conscious youth use it as a means through which to compete with adults with whom they lack status.
Contact Information
Department of Sociology
421 Baldwin Hall
Athens, GA 30602-1611
706-542-2421 (office)
706-542-4320 (fax)
plewin@uga.edu
