Oded Marom

Summary Statement of Research Interests

My research interests are in the way changes in people’s daily lives, in the ways they organize, communicate, and relate to one another, shape the way they understand and relate to the political world. Specifically, I explore how such changes interact with tendencies for political extremism and social intolerance.
My current research examines variations in the political discourse of American libertarians, both offline and online, and how their discourse is shaped by the local context in which they live and engage with politics. This project highlights the way subjects’ interpretation of libertarian ideology itself changes as their social environment and relationship with each other change. These days, I concentrate on examining how such variations matter for the way people behave online, thereby creating varying effects for online media on their political discourse.

Research Keywords

Political sociology, Sociology of culture, Sociological theory, Media sociology, Collective behavior, Social media, Civic engagement, Ideology, American libertarian movement

Conference Presentations

• Fishing for Activists: How Community Organizing and Local Recruitment Strategies Shape Civic Groups’ Partisan Tendencies.” Presented at the Chicago Ethnography Workshop. Panel on Local Political Mobilization , 4/2022
• Fishing for Activists: How Community Organizing and Local Recruitment Strategies Shape Civic Groups’ Partisan Tendencies.” Presented at the Chicago Ethnography Workshop. Panel on Local Political Mobilization , 4/2022
• Prefigurative Politics: Rethinking the Role of Ideology in Connecting Similar Political Practice with Varying Goals.” Presented at the Lexical Workshop on Political Imagination: Rethinking Our Vocabulary, Tel Aviv University , 9/2021
• Making Things Public: Interaction Patterns and the Criteria of Evaluating Political Conflicts.” Invited presentation in the American Sociological Association annual meeting. Panel on Pragmatist Theorizing in Sociology: Emerging Directions , 8/2021
• Wide Ponds and Narrow Barrels: How Community Organizing and Local Recruitment Strategies Shape Partisan Tendencies Among American Libertarians.” Paper presented in the American Sociological Association annual meeting , 8/2020
• Trying Not to Think About It: The Limits of Inter-Ideological Collaboration in Prefigurative communities.” Invited presentation in the 2nd Chicago Area Comparative and Historical Social Sciences Conference. , 5/2019
• Real Cosmopolitanism The Digital Public Sphere and the Rise of Actual Global Publics. Paper presented in the ASA Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Section preconference. , 8/2017
• Individualism as Political Action: Restructuring the Modernist Model of Life-Politics. Paper presented in the American Sociological Association annual meeting , 8/2017
• A Tight Group of Everybody: On the Emergence of a Cross National Cosmopolitan Identity among the Activists of the Global Occupy Movement. Paper presented in the Pacific Sociological Association annual meeting. Panel on Social Movements and Social Change: Environmental Movements and Occupy , 3/2016

Journal Article

• Marom, O. (2022). Prefigurative politics. Mafteakh: Lexical Review of Political Thought. (18) Full Text (Hebrew)
• Marom, O. (2023). Situational Orders: Interaction Patterns and the Standards for Evaluating Public Discourse. Sociological Theory. Vol. 0(0 (https), pp. /doi.org/10.1177/07352751231218479.

• Winner of the American Political Science Association’s Section on Civic Engagement Best Paper Award,
• Winner of the 2019 Center for Communal Studies Graduate Paper Prize,