https://www.tprice.ca/curriculumvitae daily 0.75 2024-08-30 https://www.tprice.ca/home daily 1.0 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4f45c6d5bc4319260b22a3/06b0c8a9-d0e8-4a44-a957-e6cf92be80d9/DSC03416.jpg Home - I am a visiting assistant professor at Amherst College. My research asks: How do people produce culture? And how do some cultural innovations achieve a revered or canonized status? My work on how people produce culture together has been published in Social Psychology Quarterly My work on culture and canonization has been published in Poetics. I teach sociology while providing students with opportunities to develop richer understandings of their everyday lives and stronger visions of their professional futures. I believe sociological thinking is empowering. In my classrooms, I demonstrate how sociological insights shed light on students’ everyday circumstances and can help them better understand the invisible hurdles standing in the way of their professional goals. https://www.tprice.ca/contact daily 0.75 2025-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4f45c6d5bc4319260b22a3/4c90f482-eec9-4605-ae73-98e2352cb2de/20230831_163602+copy.jpg Contact - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.tprice.ca/about-me daily 0.75 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e4f45c6d5bc4319260b22a3/683f0fb3-45f4-446f-a69c-c073b86a975d/66275207_10162177167680105_9031475058438045696_n.jpg About Me - About Me Making music has been a constant in my life. When I was 11 years old, I wanted a musical instrument of my own, though I didn’t have a strong preference for any one in particular. As I considered my options, my father wagered a suggestion, “Play bass. It’s easier to get into bands and music scenes as a bass player.” The social wisdom that underpinned my father’s suggestion that day inspired my decision to learn my first musical instrument. And it was impossible to know then, but this wisdom would also get me through a doctoral research project and turn me into the cultural sociologist I am today. When I turned 13, I had two years of bass guitar lessons under my belt. I could hold the instrument properly, get nice sounds out of it, and play it along to recordings. What seemed like the natural next step to me was to write a song of my own. The next time I walked through to the back of my local music store and into my lesson, I was driven by one specific question. I do remember asking my music teacher “How do you write a song?” but I don’t, however, remember getting a satisfying answer. While this question once drove my young self to develop a creative practice, I have held on to this curiosity and it continues to drive me. I employed this curiosity as a resource throughout the final formal phase of my training as a sociologist, resulting in my dissertation "Three Pathways of the Creative Process: How Cognition, Situations, and Relationships Facilitate Culture Creation in Songwriting Teams." My ongoing research projects investigate the sociological dimensions of creativity, vulnerability, and taste. I am currently a visiting assistant professor in Amherst College’s Anthropology and Sociology Department. https://www.tprice.ca/teaching daily 0.75 2024-05-08