I study the formation and demise of status hierarchies, their role in sustaining social dominance and inequality, processes of valuation that shape the perceived worth of things and individuals, and the relational origins of creativity. I am generally interested in status-based approaches to the study of inequality.
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Consecrated: Modern Art in Paris between Revolution and Hierarchy. Book manuscript under contract, Princeton University Press.
Peer-reviewed articles
Fabien Accominotti. “Status Inequality and Status Hierarchies." Forthcoming, L’Année sociologique.
Léonie Hénaut, Jennifer Lena, and Fabien Accominotti. 2023. "Polyoccupationalism: Expertise Stretch and Status Stretch in the Postindustrial Era." American Sociological Review 88(5): 872-900. [Journal]
Fabien Accominotti, Freda Lynn, and Michael Sauder. 2022. "The Architecture of Status Hierarchies: Variations in Structure and Why They Matter for Inequality." RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(6): 87-102. [Journal]
Kate Summers, Fabien Accominotti, Tania Burchardt, Katharina Hecht, Liz Mann, and Jonathan Mijs. 2022. "Deliberating Inequality: A Blueprint for Studying the Social Formation of Beliefs about Economic Inequality." Social Justice Research 35(4): 379-400. [Journal]
Fabien Accominotti. 2021. "The Aesthetics of Hierarchy: How Algorithmic Classifications Legitimize Inequality." British Journal of Sociology 72(2): 196-202. [Journal]
Fabien Accominotti. 2021. "Consecration as a Population-Level Phenomenon." American Behavioral Scientist 65(1): 9-24. [Journal]
Fabien Accominotti and Daniel Tadmon. 2020. "How the Reification of Merit Breeds Inequality: Theory and Experimental Evidence." LSE International Inequalities Institute Working Paper Series 42: 1-37. [Series]
Fabien Accominotti, Shamus Khan, and Adam Storer. 2018. "How Cultural Capital Emerged in Gilded Age America: Musical Purification and Cross-Class Inclusion at the New York Philharmonic." American Journal of Sociology 123(6): 1743-1783. [Journal]
Fabien Accominotti. 2009. "Creativity from Interaction: Artistic Movements and the Creativity Careers of Modern Painters." Poetics 37(3): 267-294. [Journal]
Fabien Accominotti. 2008. "Market and Hierarchy: The Social Structure of Production Decisions in a Cultural Market." Histoire & Mesure 23(2): 177-218. [Journal]
Working papers
Fabien Accominotti and Michael Sauder. "The Making of Meritocratic Status Orders" (invited, Annual Review of Sociology).
Fabien Accominotti. "The Price of Hierarchy: Consecration and the Production of Economic Value in the Market for Modern Art."
Fabien Accominotti and Daniel Tadmon. "Meritocratically Unequal: How the Reification of Merit Hierarchies Fuels Inequality."
Fabien Accominotti. "Status Signaling, Rank Ambiguity, and Reciprocity in Informal Economic Exchange."
In progress
"Segregated Inclusion and the Changing Dynamics of Inequality" (with Shamus Khan).
"Elite Shifts in the Shadow of Democratization: Subscribers to the New York Philharmonic in the Era of the Great American Middle Class."
"The Consecration of Elites" (invited, The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Global Elites, edited by Mike Savage, Annette Lareau, and María Luisa Méndez)
"Sources of Social Status in the Contemporary United States" (with Freda Lynn).
"Elite Schooling and Peer Perceptions of Intelligence" (with Benjamin Brundu-Gonzalez).
"Matrilineal and Patrilineal Marriage Networks in the Emergence of the Dallas Upper Class" (with Shay O’Brien).
"Shifting Patterns of Royals’ Interactions with British Society, 1870-1920" (with Marta Pagnini).
Other writing
Fabien Accominotti. 2024. "Review of Enrichment: A Critique of Commodities, by Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre." Forthcoming, British Journal of Sociology.
Léonie Hénaut, Jennifer Lena, and Fabien Accominotti. 2024. "Polyoccupationalism: The Unexplored World of Workers’ Occupational Identities." Work In Progress Blog. [Blog]
Fabien Accominotti. 2017. "Review of Beyond the Beat: Musicians Building Community in Nashville, by Daniel B. Cornfield." American Journal of Sociology 122(6): 2015-2017. [Journal]
Fabien Accominotti. 2015. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Prophet: Review of Manet: A Symbolic Revolution, by Pierre Bourdieu." European Journal of Sociology 56(3): 433-437. [Journal]
GRANTS
Fabien Accominotti (PI), “The Architecture of Meritocratic Evaluation and Its Impact on Inequality,” Fall Competition Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2022-2023).
Fabien Accominotti (PI, with Tania Burchardt), “Deliberating Inequality: Understanding the Social Formation of Beliefs About Inequality,” STICERD Grant (2019-2020).
Fabien Accominotti (PI), "Explaining the Legitimacy of Inequality: Two Experimental Tests of the Consecration Hypothesis," LSE International Inequalities Institute Research Innovation Grant (2017-2018).
Fabien Accominotti (PI, with Shamus Khan and Barbara Haws), "Subscribers to the New York Philharmonic, 1842-present," Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Grant, Scholarly Communications Program (2012-2015).
Fabien Accominotti (PI, with Pierre-Michel Menger and Karim Hammou), "Collaboration as a Mechanism for Notoriety in Three Creative Industries," French Department of Culture Research Grant (2011-2012).
PUBLIC LECTURES & PODCASTS