Dr. Oded Marom

Biography

Oded Marom is a cultural political sociologist and current postdoctoral fellow at the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California. His research focuses on complex social problems such as political polarization, partisan intolerance, and radical extremism as they manifest in people's everyday lives. Marom employs qualitative methods, engaging in participant observation, focus group discussions, and content analysis to explore the daily cultural mechanisms that guide individuals' political behaviors and attitudes. His work with the American libertarian movement highlights how local civic groups can lead to significant differences in political outcomes through their distinct interaction cultures. Marom's ongoing book project analyzes libertarian civic organizations, examining cultural variations that help predict differences in political outcomes. His research draws insights from various scientific disciplines to develop an ecological model of the relationship between culture and action, proposing new ways of understanding causality in cultural sociology. His projects further investigate social behavior in local contexts and the impact of online social movements.

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