About

Professor Terry N. Clark is a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. He holds a B.A. from Bowdoin College (1962), an M.A. from Columbia University (1965), and a Ph.D. from Columbia University (1967). His research interests include using decision-making theory to approach urban politics and other social phenomena, sociology of culture, transnational processes, urban sociology, and social theory. Clark is the international Coordinator of the Fiscal Austerity and Urban Innovation Project, which surveys city officials across the United States and in thirty-five other countries. His work focuses on understanding social phenomena through decision-making frameworks and exploring the dynamics of urban politics and culture.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Social Science
• Computer Science
• Geography
• Economic geography
• Political Science
• Visual arts
• Art
• Engineering ethics
• Engineering
• Economic growth
• Regional science
• Law
• Knowledge management
• Archaeology
• Economics
• Economy
• Pedagogy
• Psychology
• Philosophy
• Epistemology

Selected publications

• Culture: A New Open Access Journal

  Culture · 2025-08-20

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  Culture is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to the timely dissemination of pioneering research that interrogates and reconfigures the conditions of cultural life [...]

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• Cowboy Apocalypse: Religion and the Myth of the Vigilante Messiah, by RACHEL WAGNER

  Sociology of Religion · 2025-01-01

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• More Bolshoi in the “Hood”? Assessing the Impact of Top-Down Inclusive Cultural Policies on Multiculturalism and Local Dynamics in Different French Cities and Urban Scenes

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2023-01-01

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• Correction to: Marketing as an emergent discipline: Commentary on Shelby Hunt’s final contribution to our field

  AMS Review · 2022-12-28 · 2 citations

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• Interdisciplinary Experiential Learning

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2022 · 2 citations

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  • Computer Science
  • Psychology
  • Engineering ethics

  Abstract Identifying optimal strategies for developing expertise is a topic of considerable interest and debate within music performance. The key knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors underpinning musical expertise, as in so many other performance domains, are complex and often idiosyncratic. They can be obscured from view due to their tacit, embodied nature. Imparting expertise from the musical “master” to the “apprentice,” meanwhile, can be fraught with challenges due to the limitations inherent within the transmission of such information. Furthermore, it is clear that attaining musical expertise requires more than just engaging with a sufficient quantity of practice, whether 10,000 hours or some other figure. In this chapter, we propose experiential learning involving interdisciplinary engagement as an innovative pedagogical strategy that can address these challenges. We present simulation-based experiential learning as a forum for engagement and exchange between learners and practitioners from different domains who would typically not have access or insight into one another’s worlds. We then discuss what has been termed reciprocal illumination, whereby learners have the opportunity to see another’s response to or understanding of their own field. Finally, this chapter discusses a series of recent interdisciplinary experiential learning initiatives to help demonstrate the potential opportunities and practical implications arising from such approaches.

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• Pushing Boundaries in Marketing Concepts and Research: An Abstract

  Developments in marketing science: proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science · 2022-01-01

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• Democratic Governance and Institutional Logics Within the Third Sector (or, How Habermas Discovered the Coffee House)

  2021-04-08

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  Civil society organizations, non-profit organizations, nongovernmental organizations, international nongovernmental organizations, and formal and informal associations are part of an important, relatively new sector that is now a world political force. This project has unearthed five basic institutional logics operating simultaneously within the third sector. In the United States and throughout the world, multiple institutional logics have led to some mini culture wars within individual organizations, organizational fields, and third sectors in general. The high degrees of professionalization and institutionalization in the United States, by contrast, make the historically fractious third sector start to look much less radical. Themes of openness and closure, as they stand in relation to each other, become salient as third sector participants jockey for position and, in the process, create new rules among the competing institutional logics within the field.

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• Urbanization Theorizing

  Handbooks of sociology and social research · 2021 · 5 citations

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  • Sociology
  • Social Science
  • Economic geography
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• Bohemian Cultural Scenes and Creative Development of Chinese Cities: An Analysis of 65 Cities Using Cultural Amenity Data

  Sustainability · 2021 · 7 citations

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  • Sociology
  • Political Science
  • Economic geography

  There has been a cultural turn in urban development, as an increasing number of scholars are stressing the importance of culture in urban research and policy agendas. Specifically, the bohemian cultural scene could drive an integral cultural policy approach between the cultural scenes city and the creative city approach. Based on amenities data from 65 major Chinese cities, this paper investigates the relationship between bohemian cultural scenes and creative development of Chinese cities as well as regional differences using tree-based model, ordinary least squares (OLS) and truncated regression, and provides conceptual and quantitative support for a bohemian cultural scenes policy. Factor analysis suggests the bohemian cultural scene in Chinese cities consists of two dimensions: self-expression and charisma. According to regression results, bohemian scenes significantly promote urban creative development; specifically, charisma has a stronger impact on urban creativity than self-expression. There are also significant regional differences: northern and eastern cities should focus on the development of the charismatic dimension, creative subjects should adjust away from prudent industriousness and practice dynamic experimentalism; whereas southern cities should focus on the self-expressive dimension, and continue to promote tolerance, inclusivity and expressive practice. Finally, the bohemian scenes policy demands an integral policy approach sensitive to the existing socioeconomic context: policymakers should incorporate specific amenities into existing qualities of local spaces and cultural consumption to stimulate creative development.

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• Tocqueville, Alexis de (1805–1859)

  The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology · 2020-04-22

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  Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) has been variously considered as historian, sociologist, and political theorist. His most well known work is Democracy in America (1835–1840), a classic study not only of democracy in America but of democracy itself. Sociologists have found in this analysis of the early years of the American Republic a seminal source of inspiration for the study of contemporary American society and politics. In the 1970s, interest of sociologists in Tocqueville's work began to dwindle. By contrast, in political science Tocqueville's status as a classic thinker of democracy was never in question. In recent years, however, sociologists have joined political scientists in responding to Tocqueville's call for a “new political science.” His writings provide sociologists with an enduring source of inspiration for the analysis of social problems such as slavery, revolution, inequality, individualism, materialism, religion, and colonialism.

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Frequent coauthors

• Brian Azcona

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• Pam Jenkins

  University of New Orleans

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• Traber Davis

  Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center

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• David M. Burley

  Southeastern Louisiana University

  36 shared

• Lorna Ferguson

  19 shared

• Daniel Aaron Silver

  University of Toronto

  18 shared

• Daniel Silver

  University of Toronto

  16 shared

• Filipe Carreira da Silva

  University of Cambridge

  15 shared