Liz Chiarello, Ph.D.
Professor
Courses Taught
Medical Sociology, Law & Society, Organizations, Professions
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Research Interests
Chiarello's research examines stability and change in professional fields by bridging rarely integrated
subfields—sociological theories of organizations and medicine and socio-legal theories
of criminality and frontline work. Primarily using qualitative, ethnographic methods,
she concentrates on pharmacy, a highly understudied profession caught in the crossfires
of contemporary political conflict. She focuses on two particularly controversial
types of drugs: emergency contraceptive pills and narcotics. Though these drugs serve
very different physical functions, they are subject to overlapping social contexts
and similar mechanisms of resistance by political groups.
Publications and Media Placements
2015. Chiarello, E. "The War on Drugs Comes to the Pharmacy Counter: Frontline Work in the Shadow of Discrepant Institutional Logics." Law & Social Inquiry 40(1): 86-122.
2014. Chiarello, E. "Medical v. Fiscal Gatekeeping: Navigating Professional Contingencies at the Pharmacy
Counter." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 42(4): 518-534.
2013. Chiarello, E. "Contextualizing Consequences: A Socio-legal Approach to Social Movement Consequences
in Professional Fields." Mobilization: An International Quarterly 18(4): 429-451.
2013. Chiarello, E. "How Organizational Context Affects Bioethical Decision-Making: Pharmacists’ Management
of Gatekeeping Processes in Retail and Hospital Settings." Social Science & Medicine 98: 319-329.
2011. Chiarello, E. "Challenging Professional Self-Regulation: Social Movement Influence on Pharmacy Rulemaking
in Washington State." Work and Occupations 38: 303-339.
2011. Morrill, C. and Chiarello, E. "Social Movements in Organizations/Institutions."
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, edited by D. A Snow, D. Della Porta, B. Klandermans, and D. McAdam. Oxford, England: Blackwell Publishers.
2010. Amenta, A., Caren, N., Chiarello, E., and Su, Y. "The Political Consequences of Social Movements." Annual Review of Sociology 36: 287-307.
2003.Casasola, M., Cohen, L. B., and Chiarello, E. "Six-month-old Infants’ Categorization of Containment Spatial Relations." Child Development 74: 679-693.