Nicolás Somma
Areas of Interest
Social movements, political sociology, historical comparative sociology, quantitative methods, network analysis, stratification and social inequalities.
Publications
Somma, Nicolás M. 2009. "How Strong are Strong Ties? The Conditional Effectiveness of Strong Ties in Protest Recruitment Attempts." Sociological Perspectives, Vol.52, Issue 3, pp.289-308.
Eduardo Valenzuela, Simón Schwartzman, J. Samuel Valenzuela, Timothy R. Scully, Nicolás M. Somma, and Andrés Biehl. 2008. “Vínculos, Creencias e Ilusiones. La Cohesión Social de los Latinoamericanos.” Uqbar Editores, Santiago de Chile, Colección CIEPLAN. (Links, Beliefs, and Hopes. The Social Cohesion of Latin Americans).
J. Samuel Valenzuela, Timothy R. Scully, and Nicolás Somma. 2007. “The Enduring Presence of Religion in Chilean Ideological Positionings and Voter Options.”
Comparative Politics 40(1).
Iliana Santa Marta and Nicolás Somma (2004) ‘Las relaciones sociales en la innovación. Estudio de caso de una empresa de software’, in Ema Massera (ed.) Trabajo e innovación en Uruguay. Problemas básicos de nuestra cultura productiva, Editorial Trilce, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Ema Massera, Iliana Santa Marta, and Nicolás Somma (2004) ‘El proceso de trabajo como proceso de innovación’, in Enrique Mazzei (ed.) El Uruguay desde la sociología II, Sociology Department, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.
Nicolás Somma (2003) ‘Educación terciaria y mercados de trabajo en los departamentos de Uruguay’, in Enrique Mazzei (ed.) El Uruguay desde la sociología. Integración, desigualdades sociales, trabajo y educación, Sociology Department, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.
Nicolás Somma (2003) ‘Lifestyles in Uruguay’, CD-ROM edition of One market, several countries, European Society of Market Research (ESOMAR).
Profile
Somma earned a B.A. (1999) and M.A. (2004) in Sociology from the Universidad de la República Uruguay), where he taught classical social theory, research methods, and sociology of education. He arrived at Notre Dame in the fall of 2004 and earned an M.A. in Sociology in 2006. He is broadly interested in the interactions among social movements, states, and inequality structures in the U.S. and Latin America.
He is currently working on a series of papers about protest participation and recruitment networks in the U.S. using survey data. He is also starting a research project about the dynamics of popular protest in countries with progressive governments in Latin America using newspaper data. As a Research Assistant of Professor Samuel Valenzuela, he is working on a project that examines the relationship between religiosity and political preferences in Chile.