Celine-Marie Pascale

Celine-Marie Pascale is an American sociologist and author. She is professor emerita of sociology at the American University College of Arts and Sciences.

Education Pascale has a BA Communications from Glassboro State College, a MA in Social Science from San Jose State University, and a PhD in sociology, with a certificate in Women's Studies, from the University of California, Santa Cruz. The work was praised for its triangulation of empirical data with post-structural discourse analysis and ethnomethodology. Her subsequent book Cartographies of Knowledge: Exploring Qualitative Epistemologies (Sage, 2010), received the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry's Distinguished Book Award in 2011. In 2021, Pascale published her book Living on the Edge. She wrote in the preface that the book was to detail the lives of "ordinary people" in the poorest regions of the United States and to highlight the ways that "business practices and government policies create, normalize and entrench economic struggles for many in order to produce extreme wealth for a few."

Books Making Sense of Race, Gender and Class: Commonsense, Power and Privilege in the United States (Routledge, 2007) Cartographies of Knowledge: Exploring Qualitative Epistemologies (Sage 2011) Social Inequalities & The Politics of Representation: A Global Landscape (2013) Living on the Edge: When Hard Times Become A Way of Life (Polity, 2021)