Prof. Dr. Gabriel Abend
Professor of Sociology
T +41 41 229 55 62
gabriel.abend @ unilu.ch
https://sites.google.com/site/gabend/g
Frohburgstrasse 3, room 3.B08
CV
Gabriel Abend studied political science and history at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay. His education continued in “America,” where he got a PhD in sociology from Northwestern University. Seeing as capitalism wasn’t going to go away any time soon, he decided to sell his labor-power to New York University, first as an Assistant Professor of Sociology, afterward as a tenured Associate Professor of Sociology. Abend is the recipient of the 2017 Lewis A. Coser Award for “Theoretical” Agenda Setting. His book, The Moral Background: An Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics, came out with Princeton University Press in 2014. It’s a real page-turner—satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. For more information: https://sites.google.com/site/gabend/g
Research
Research Interests
Sociology of culture
Economic sociology
Comparative-historical sociology
Sociological “theory”
Science and technology studies
Sociology of knowledge
Sociology of morality
Moral philosophy
Philosophy of science
Logic of inquiry
Publications
- Abend, G. (2022). Making Things Possible. Sociological Methods & Research, 51 (1), 68–107.
- Abend, G. (2019). Thick Concepts and Sociological Research. Sociological Theory, 37 (3), 209–233. https://doi.org/10.1177/0735275119869979
- Abend, G. (2019). Moral decisionism and its discontents. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 49 (1), 59–83. https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12191
- Abend, G. (2018). The Limits of Decision and Choice. Theory and Society, 47 (6), 804–841. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-018-09333-1
- Abend, G. (2018). Outline of a Sociology of Decisionism. British Journal of Sociology, 69 (2), 237–264. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12320
- Abend, G. (2018). The Love of Neuroscience: A Sociological Account. Sociological Theory, 36 (1), 88–116. https://doi.org/10.1177/0735275118759697