Olivia Nicol

Olivia Nicol is Assistant Professor of Sociology at SUTD in Singapore. Her work concentrates on the attribution of responsibility in long and complex causal chains. She focuses on the recent financial crisis in the United States (2007 – 2010). She is not interested in knowing who was responsible for the crisis, but how responsibility was constructed through a blame game. She examines media excerpts drawn from three main newspapers (The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and USA Today) to analyze the games of accusations and counter-accusations for the crisis.

Intérêts de recherche

Economic and organizational sociology; Sociology of morality ; Sociology of deviance

Visiting projects and objectives

Olivia Nicol will complete a book project, called The Blame Game, which focuses on attribution of responsibility for the recent financial crisis in the United States (2007 – 2010).

To know more

Link to Olivia Nicol personal webpage