Thierry Rossier
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 298933 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Thierry Rossier |
| PRENOMES | Thierry |
| SOBRENOME | Rossier |
| ASSINATURA | ROSSIER T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Lausanne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3340-9091 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)
The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic resources, and on the rules of the game. However, the sociology of elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations of what can be considered as a position of economic power and internationally incompatible sources of information hinder compa…
Mapping relational structures in culture
Forms of Capital, Social Change and the Weight of the Past
In this article we delve into the elites' evolving forms of power to study the relationship between social change and capital accumulation. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's notion of the field of power and relying on the identification of the field's effective agents in Switzerland, we investigate the changing relations among the most important forms of capital. We use prosopographical data spanning six historical periods from 1910 to 2015 and thanks…
The Front and the Back Stage of Power
In the resurgence of elite sociology, formal (organizational-based network resources) and informal (non-organizational relations) social capital have garnered attention, but their mutual dynamics remain underexplored. This study addresses this gap, examining how both forms intersect among urban business elites, focusing on their roles on corporate boards, perceived as a front stage of power, and their places of residence, representing a back stag…
International Circulations and Inequalities in the Social Sciences
This special issue calls for a critical, historically grounded, and interdisciplinary perspective on international circulations and inequalities in the social sciences. It emphasizes the importance of considering the social sciences as a whole and in relation to broader power dynamics. To address inequalities in the production and dissemination of knowledge in the social sciences from diverse perspectives, this special issue brings together schol…
Homologies in fields of cultural production. Evidence from the European scientific field
Elite Cohesion and Social Closure
The Space of Research Topics in Economics
Within the Social Studies of Economics, research has been dominated by case-oriented approaches. In this article, we propose and demonstrate the value of adding a quantitative, field-theoretical approach. Specifically, we outline a perspective for studying economics as a social field, focusing on the homology between research topics and the resources and characteristics of researchers. We specifically attend to the Swiss case, entailing integrati…
The First Graduate School of Latin American Economic Studies (Escolatina) Between “Autochthonous” and International Logics (1956-1964)
After World War II, international organizations and research institutes dedicated to the development of local expertise thrived in Latin America. The desire to produce appropriate knowledge to solve the region’s socio-economic problems raised the question of the intellectual and material autonomy of these organizations. This article combines intellectual and social history to investigate the early years of the first Graduate School of Latin Ameri…
Des autoroutes aux sentiers
Cet article considère l’interdisciplinarité des requérant·e·s de projets de recherche comme un vecteur potentiel de crédibilité. L’interdisciplinarité est observée au niveau biographique comme autant de mobilités disciplinaires réalisées au long d’une carrière d’obtention de financements. Ces mobilités, plus ou moins fréquentes, plus ou moins longues et engageant des disciplines plus ou moins proches en termes de pratiques et de valeurs, forment …
Carrières universitaires et structure disciplinaire
Distribution électronique Cairn
From order to chaos. How the Brexit economic expert discourse articulates structural dissolution in times of Covid-19 crisis
This paper analyses the transformation of identities and institutions of economic experts as politico-economic professionals brought about by the Brexit process between 2016 and 2020. In order to understand the transformation from order to chaos in times of COVID-19, a mixed methods approach is applied. In a first step, a discourse analysis of two competing letters from two different groups of economists is carried out. One letter was published b…
From integrated to fragmented elites. The core of Swiss elite networks 1910-2015
This article focuses on historical elite dynamics and investigates elites' integration over time. We describe the changing relations and composition of the central circles in Swiss elite networks at seven benchmark years between 1910 and 2015 by relying on 22,262 elite individuals tied to 2587 organizations among eight key sectors, and identify for each year the most connected core of individuals. We explore network cohesion and sectoral bridging…
Is interdisciplinarity distinctive? Scientific collaborations through research projects in natural sciences
This article focuses on (inter)disciplinary collaborations through the co-application to research projects funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the main provider of research funding in Switzerland. We suggest that interdisciplinarity is a potential mode of distinction and that its frequency and the disciplines involved may be associated with specific configurations of scientific, institutional, international, extra-academic, and netwo…
The interaction of elite networks in the Pinochet regime's macroeconomic policies
The Chilean military regime offered a prime example of interactions among elite groups in the making of macroeconomic policies. Through the lens of both Bourdieu's field theory and Mills's elite coordination through networks, we show how Chilean elites sought to implement these policies despite being divided by their transnational and national ties. We have constructed an original database on the 62 most influential individuals within the space o…
Accumulation and conversion of capitals in professorial careers. The importance of scientific reputation, network relations, and internationality in economics and business studies
Prosopography, Networks, Life Course Sequences, and so on. Quantifying with or beyond Bourdieu
This article focuses on the importance of quantifying Bourdieu’s “research programme”, linked with the concepts of field, habitus, and capital. It presents possible ways of doing statistics within this framework and argues that continuous methodological development should be pursued. To support this argument, the article highlights the methodology and empirical results of a doctoral dissertation on the Swiss field of economic sciences. It stresse…
Devenir(s) militants
À partir de 366 entretiens biographiques et 284 calendriers de vie collectés auprès de militant.e.s des années 1968 dans cinq métropoles françaises, et dans le cadre d’une recherche collective qui explore les conséquences biographiques de leur engagement tant dans leur sphère de vie militante que professionnelle et affective (Sombrero, 2013-2018), nous proposons une stratégie originale de traitement de ces données biographiques. En associant anal…
Mapping the Power of Law Professors
The Rise of Professors of Economics and Business Studies in Switzerland
This paper studies the rise of professors of economics and business studies in the second half of the 20th century in Switzerland. It focuses on three types of power resources: positions in the university hierarchy, scientific reputation and extra-academic positions in the economic and political spheres. Based on a biographical database of N = 487 professors, it examines how these resources developed from 1957 to 2000. We find that professors of …
Internationalisation des élites académiques suisses au XXe siècle
Resting on a new database on professors of law and economic sciences from Swiss universities in the 20th century, this article accounts for different dynamics of internationalisation of this elite group. Three major conclusions can be drawn from our analyses: first, we can divide the 20th century in three distinct historic periods. A strong internationalisation of the academic elites at the beginning of the century is followed by a period of nati…
From integrated to fragmented elites. The core of Swiss elite networks 1910-2015
This article focuses on historical elite dynamics and investigates elites' integration over time. We describe the changing relations and composition of the central circles in Swiss elite networks at seven benchmark years between 1910 and 2015 by relying on 22,262 elite individuals tied to 2587 organizations among eight key sectors, and identify for each year the most connected core of individuals. We explore network cohesion and sectoral bridging…
Prosopography, Networks, Life Course Sequences, and so on. Quantifying with or beyond Bourdieu
This article focuses on the importance of quantifying Bourdieu’s “research programme”, linked with the concepts of field, habitus, and capital. It presents possible ways of doing statistics within this framework and argues that continuous methodological development should be pursued. To support this argument, the article highlights the methodology and empirical results of a doctoral dissertation on the Swiss field of economic sciences. It stresse…
Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)
The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic resources, and on the rules of the game. However, the sociology of elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations of what can be considered as a position of economic power and internationally incompatible sources of information hinder compa…
Is interdisciplinarity distinctive? Scientific collaborations through research projects in natural sciences
This article focuses on (inter)disciplinary collaborations through the co-application to research projects funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the main provider of research funding in Switzerland. We suggest that interdisciplinarity is a potential mode of distinction and that its frequency and the disciplines involved may be associated with specific configurations of scientific, institutional, international, extra-academic, and netwo…
Mapping the Power of Law Professors
Internationalisation des élites académiques suisses au XXe siècle
Resting on a new database on professors of law and economic sciences from Swiss universities in the 20th century, this article accounts for different dynamics of internationalisation of this elite group. Three major conclusions can be drawn from our analyses: first, we can divide the 20th century in three distinct historic periods. A strong internationalisation of the academic elites at the beginning of the century is followed by a period of nati…
The interaction of elite networks in the Pinochet regime's macroeconomic policies
The Chilean military regime offered a prime example of interactions among elite groups in the making of macroeconomic policies. Through the lens of both Bourdieu's field theory and Mills's elite coordination through networks, we show how Chilean elites sought to implement these policies despite being divided by their transnational and national ties. We have constructed an original database on the 62 most influential individuals within the space o…
The Rise of Professors of Economics and Business Studies in Switzerland
This paper studies the rise of professors of economics and business studies in the second half of the 20th century in Switzerland. It focuses on three types of power resources: positions in the university hierarchy, scientific reputation and extra-academic positions in the economic and political spheres. Based on a biographical database of N = 487 professors, it examines how these resources developed from 1957 to 2000. We find that professors of …
Devenir(s) militants
À partir de 366 entretiens biographiques et 284 calendriers de vie collectés auprès de militant.e.s des années 1968 dans cinq métropoles françaises, et dans le cadre d’une recherche collective qui explore les conséquences biographiques de leur engagement tant dans leur sphère de vie militante que professionnelle et affective (Sombrero, 2013-2018), nous proposons une stratégie originale de traitement de ces données biographiques. En associant anal…
Forms of Capital, Social Change and the Weight of the Past
In this article we delve into the elites' evolving forms of power to study the relationship between social change and capital accumulation. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's notion of the field of power and relying on the identification of the field's effective agents in Switzerland, we investigate the changing relations among the most important forms of capital. We use prosopographical data spanning six historical periods from 1910 to 2015 and thanks…
The Front and the Back Stage of Power
In the resurgence of elite sociology, formal (organizational-based network resources) and informal (non-organizational relations) social capital have garnered attention, but their mutual dynamics remain underexplored. This study addresses this gap, examining how both forms intersect among urban business elites, focusing on their roles on corporate boards, perceived as a front stage of power, and their places of residence, representing a back stag…
Des autoroutes aux sentiers
Cet article considère l’interdisciplinarité des requérant·e·s de projets de recherche comme un vecteur potentiel de crédibilité. L’interdisciplinarité est observée au niveau biographique comme autant de mobilités disciplinaires réalisées au long d’une carrière d’obtention de financements. Ces mobilités, plus ou moins fréquentes, plus ou moins longues et engageant des disciplines plus ou moins proches en termes de pratiques et de valeurs, forment …
Elite Cohesion and Social Closure
The Space of Research Topics in Economics
Within the Social Studies of Economics, research has been dominated by case-oriented approaches. In this article, we propose and demonstrate the value of adding a quantitative, field-theoretical approach. Specifically, we outline a perspective for studying economics as a social field, focusing on the homology between research topics and the resources and characteristics of researchers. We specifically attend to the Swiss case, entailing integrati…
The First Graduate School of Latin American Economic Studies (Escolatina) Between “Autochthonous” and International Logics (1956-1964)
After World War II, international organizations and research institutes dedicated to the development of local expertise thrived in Latin America. The desire to produce appropriate knowledge to solve the region’s socio-economic problems raised the question of the intellectual and material autonomy of these organizations. This article combines intellectual and social history to investigate the early years of the first Graduate School of Latin Ameri…
From order to chaos. How the Brexit economic expert discourse articulates structural dissolution in times of Covid-19 crisis
This paper analyses the transformation of identities and institutions of economic experts as politico-economic professionals brought about by the Brexit process between 2016 and 2020. In order to understand the transformation from order to chaos in times of COVID-19, a mixed methods approach is applied. In a first step, a discourse analysis of two competing letters from two different groups of economists is carried out. One letter was published b…
Internationalisation des élites académiques suisses au XXe siècle
Resting on a new database on professors of law and economic sciences from Swiss universities in the 20th century, this article accounts for different dynamics of internationalisation of this elite group. Three major conclusions can be drawn from our analyses: first, we can divide the 20th century in three distinct historic periods. A strong internationalisation of the academic elites at the beginning of the century is followed by a period of nati…
Mapping the Power of Law Professors
The Rise of Professors of Economics and Business Studies in Switzerland
This paper studies the rise of professors of economics and business studies in the second half of the 20th century in Switzerland. It focuses on three types of power resources: positions in the university hierarchy, scientific reputation and extra-academic positions in the economic and political spheres. Based on a biographical database of N = 487 professors, it examines how these resources developed from 1957 to 2000. We find that professors of …
Prosopography, Networks, Life Course Sequences, and so on. Quantifying with or beyond Bourdieu
This article focuses on the importance of quantifying Bourdieu’s “research programme”, linked with the concepts of field, habitus, and capital. It presents possible ways of doing statistics within this framework and argues that continuous methodological development should be pursued. To support this argument, the article highlights the methodology and empirical results of a doctoral dissertation on the Swiss field of economic sciences. It stresse…
Devenir(s) militants
À partir de 366 entretiens biographiques et 284 calendriers de vie collectés auprès de militant.e.s des années 1968 dans cinq métropoles françaises, et dans le cadre d’une recherche collective qui explore les conséquences biographiques de leur engagement tant dans leur sphère de vie militante que professionnelle et affective (Sombrero, 2013-2018), nous proposons une stratégie originale de traitement de ces données biographiques. En associant anal…
Accumulation and conversion of capitals in professorial careers. The importance of scientific reputation, network relations, and internationality in economics and business studies
The interaction of elite networks in the Pinochet regime's macroeconomic policies
The Chilean military regime offered a prime example of interactions among elite groups in the making of macroeconomic policies. Through the lens of both Bourdieu's field theory and Mills's elite coordination through networks, we show how Chilean elites sought to implement these policies despite being divided by their transnational and national ties. We have constructed an original database on the 62 most influential individuals within the space o…
Carrières universitaires et structure disciplinaire
Distribution électronique Cairn
From order to chaos. How the Brexit economic expert discourse articulates structural dissolution in times of Covid-19 crisis
This paper analyses the transformation of identities and institutions of economic experts as politico-economic professionals brought about by the Brexit process between 2016 and 2020. In order to understand the transformation from order to chaos in times of COVID-19, a mixed methods approach is applied. In a first step, a discourse analysis of two competing letters from two different groups of economists is carried out. One letter was published b…
From integrated to fragmented elites. The core of Swiss elite networks 1910-2015
This article focuses on historical elite dynamics and investigates elites' integration over time. We describe the changing relations and composition of the central circles in Swiss elite networks at seven benchmark years between 1910 and 2015 by relying on 22,262 elite individuals tied to 2587 organizations among eight key sectors, and identify for each year the most connected core of individuals. We explore network cohesion and sectoral bridging…
Is interdisciplinarity distinctive? Scientific collaborations through research projects in natural sciences
This article focuses on (inter)disciplinary collaborations through the co-application to research projects funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the main provider of research funding in Switzerland. We suggest that interdisciplinarity is a potential mode of distinction and that its frequency and the disciplines involved may be associated with specific configurations of scientific, institutional, international, extra-academic, and netwo…
The Space of Research Topics in Economics
Within the Social Studies of Economics, research has been dominated by case-oriented approaches. In this article, we propose and demonstrate the value of adding a quantitative, field-theoretical approach. Specifically, we outline a perspective for studying economics as a social field, focusing on the homology between research topics and the resources and characteristics of researchers. We specifically attend to the Swiss case, entailing integrati…
The First Graduate School of Latin American Economic Studies (Escolatina) Between “Autochthonous” and International Logics (1956-1964)
After World War II, international organizations and research institutes dedicated to the development of local expertise thrived in Latin America. The desire to produce appropriate knowledge to solve the region’s socio-economic problems raised the question of the intellectual and material autonomy of these organizations. This article combines intellectual and social history to investigate the early years of the first Graduate School of Latin Ameri…
Des autoroutes aux sentiers
Cet article considère l’interdisciplinarité des requérant·e·s de projets de recherche comme un vecteur potentiel de crédibilité. L’interdisciplinarité est observée au niveau biographique comme autant de mobilités disciplinaires réalisées au long d’une carrière d’obtention de financements. Ces mobilités, plus ou moins fréquentes, plus ou moins longues et engageant des disciplines plus ou moins proches en termes de pratiques et de valeurs, forment …
International Circulations and Inequalities in the Social Sciences
This special issue calls for a critical, historically grounded, and interdisciplinary perspective on international circulations and inequalities in the social sciences. It emphasizes the importance of considering the social sciences as a whole and in relation to broader power dynamics. To address inequalities in the production and dissemination of knowledge in the social sciences from diverse perspectives, this special issue brings together schol…
Homologies in fields of cultural production. Evidence from the European scientific field
Elite Cohesion and Social Closure
Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)
The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic resources, and on the rules of the game. However, the sociology of elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations of what can be considered as a position of economic power and internationally incompatible sources of information hinder compa…
Mapping relational structures in culture
Forms of Capital, Social Change and the Weight of the Past
In this article we delve into the elites' evolving forms of power to study the relationship between social change and capital accumulation. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's notion of the field of power and relying on the identification of the field's effective agents in Switzerland, we investigate the changing relations among the most important forms of capital. We use prosopographical data spanning six historical periods from 1910 to 2015 and thanks…
The Front and the Back Stage of Power
In the resurgence of elite sociology, formal (organizational-based network resources) and informal (non-organizational relations) social capital have garnered attention, but their mutual dynamics remain underexplored. This study addresses this gap, examining how both forms intersect among urban business elites, focusing on their roles on corporate boards, perceived as a front stage of power, and their places of residence, representing a back stag…
Sociology (18 obras) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (16 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Economics (10 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · Social science (7 obras) · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism (6 obras) · Elite (5 obras)