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• Forthcoming 2012. “Where Do Axial Commitments Reside? Problems in Thinking about the African Case.” In Robert Bellah and Hans Joas (eds.), The Axial Age and Its Consequences, Harvard University Press.

• 2001 Richard Madsen, William Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton (eds.), Meaning and Modernity: Religion, Polity, Self (University of California Press).
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• 2001 Talk of Love: How Culture Matters (University of Chicago Press).
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• 1996 Claude S. Fischer, Michael Hout, Martin Sanchez Jankowski, Samuel R. Lucas, Ann Swidler and Kim Voss, Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth (Princeton University Press).
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• 1991 Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton, The Good Society (Alfred A. Knopf).
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• 1985 Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton, Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (University of California Press).
  • 1996. Reissued with a new Introduction.
  • 2007. Reissued with a new Introduction.
  • Translated into Chinese, Japanese, German, Bulgarian, Italian, Vietnamese.
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• 1979 Organization Without Authority: Dilemmas of Social Control in Free Schools (Harvard University Press).

• 2011 Susan Cotts Watkins, Ann Swidler, and Crystal Biruk, "Hearsay Ethnography: A Method for Learning about Responses to Health Interventions," in Berenice Pescosolido, Jane McLeod, Jack Martin, and Anne Rogers (eds.), The Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, & Healing. Springer.
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• 2010 "Return of the Sacred: What African Chiefs Teach Us about Secularization." Sociology of Religion 71(2).
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• 2010 "Access to Pleasure: Aesthetics, Social Inequality, and the Structure of Culture Production." Pp. 285-294 in Handbook of Cultural Sociology, edited by John Hall, Laura Grindstaff and Ming-Cheng Lo. Routledge.
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• 2009 "Responding to AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa," in Peter Hall and Michèle Lamont (eds.), Successful Societies: Institutions, Cultural Repertoires and Population Health. Cambridge University Press.
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• 2009 "Dialectics of Patronage: Logics of Accountability at the African AIDSNGO Interface," in Philanthropic Projections: Sending Institutional Logics Abroad, edited by Steven Heydemann and David Hammack, Indiana University Press.
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• 2009 Ann Swidler and Susan Cotts Watkins, "'Teach a Man to Fish': The Sustainability Doctrine and its Social Consequences." World Development 37(7):1182–1196.
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• 2009 Susan Cotts Watkins and Ann Swidler, "Hearsay Ethnography: Conversational Journals as a Method For Studying Culture in Action," Poetics 37(2):162-184.
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• 2009. Iddo Tavory and Ann Swidler, "Condom Semiotics: Meaning and Condom Use in Rural Malawi." American Sociological Review 74(2):171-189. Reprinted in Data Collection, edited by W. Paul Vogt, SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods, SAGE Publications, London (2010).
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• 2008. "Comment on Stephen Vaisey’s, 'Socrates, Skinner, and Aristotle: Three Ways of Thinking About Culture in Action,'" Sociological Forum 23(3):614-618.
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• 2008. Malcolm Potts, Daniel T. Halperin, Douglas Kirby, Ann Swidler, Elliot Marseille, Jeffrey D. Klausner, Norman Hearst, Richard G. Wamai, James G. Kahn, and Julia Walsh, "Reassessing HIV Prevention." Science 320 (5877): 749 - 750. 2008. Potts et al., Letters and response, "Tailoring AIDS Prevention," Science 321(5896): 1631-33.
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• 2007 Ann Swidler and Susan Cotts Watkins: "Ties of Dependence: AIDS and Transactional Sex in Rural Malawi," Studies in Family Planning 38, 3 (September):147-162.
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• 2006 "Syncretism and Subversion in AIDS Governance: How Locals Cope with Global Demands" International Affairs 82, No. 2 (March): 269-284. [expanded version pp. 145-164 in Nana K. Poku, Alan Whiteside, and Bjorg Sandkjaer, eds. Governing a Pandemic: HIV/AIDS. Aldershot, Hants, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2007].
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• 2002 "Cultural Repertoires and Cultural Logics: Can They Be Reconciled?" pp. 6-8 in Culture: Newsletter of the Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association (Winter).
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• 2001 "Cultural Expression and Action." Pp. 3063-3069 in Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Oxford: Elsevier Science Ltd.).
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• 2001 "Introduction" to Meaning and Modernity: Religion, Polity, Self (with Madsen, Sullivan, Tipton), pp. ix-xvii.
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• 2001 "Saving the Self: Endowment versus Depletion in American Institutions," pp. 41-55 in Madsen, Sullivan, Swidler, and Tipton (eds.), Meaning and Modernity: Religion, Polity, Self (Berkeley: University of California Press).
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• 2001 "What Anchors Cultural Practices," in Theodore R. Schatzki, Karin Knorr Cetina and Eike von Savigny (eds.), The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory (London: Routledge):74-92.
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• 1995 "Cultural Power and Social Movements," pp. 25-40 in Hank Johnston and Bert Klandermans (eds.), Social Movements and Culture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press) [reprinted in Lyn Spillman (ed.), Cultural Sociology (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002), pp. 311-323].
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• 1994 Ann Swidler and Jorge Arditi "The New Sociology of Knowledge," Annual Review of Sociology 20:305-29. Reprinted in Volker meja and Nico Stehr (eds.) The Sociology of Knowledge (Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar). Excerpts reprinted in Schools and Society: A Sociological Approach to Education, Jeanne H. Ballantine and Joan Spade (eds.), Pine Forge Press (November 2007).
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• 1993/4 Ronald L. Jepperson and Ann Swidler, "What Properties of Culture Should We Measure?" Poetics 22 (4).
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• 1993 "Foreword," Max Weber, The Sociology of Religion, trans. Ephriam Fischoff (Boston: Beacon Press).
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• 1992 "Inequality and American Culture: The Persistence of Voluntarism," American Behavioral Scientist 35 (March/June):606-629; also pp. 294-314 in Gary Marks and Larry Diamond (eds.), Reexamining Democracy (Newbury Park: Sage).
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• 1991 "The Ideal Society," American Behavioral Scientist (May), reprinted in Amy B. Cohen, Brett Gary, and John Noakes (eds.) Visions of Society: Perspectives from the Social Sciences (Newbury Park, CA: Sage).
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• 1988 Frank R. Dobbin, Lauren Edelman, John W. Meyer, W. Richard Scott, and Ann Swidler, "The Expansion of Due Process in Organizations," pp. 71-98 in Lynne G. Zucker (ed.), Institutional Patterns and Organizations: Culture and Environment (Cambridge, Ma.: Ballinger).
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• 1986 Ann Swidler, Melissa Rapp, and Yasemin Soysal, "Format and Formula in Prime-Time TV," in Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach and Muriel Cantor (eds.), Media, Audience, and Social Structure (Beverly Hills: Sage).
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• 1986 "The Culture of Policy: Aggregate versus Individualist Thinking about the Regulation of Education," in David Kirp and Donald Jensen (eds.), School Days, Rule Days (London: Falmer Press). Extended version: Project Report No. 82- A13, Institute for Research on Educational Finance and Governance, Stanford University (June, 1982).
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• 1986 "Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies," American Sociological Review 51 (April): 273-286. Reprinted in Philip Smith (ed.), The New American Cultural Sociology (Cambridge University Press 1998), and translated into Chinese (Taiwan), Spanish, Italian, and Hebrew. Reprinted in Marco Santo and Roberta Sassatelli (eds.), Studiare la cultura: Nuove prospettive sociologiche (il Mulino: Bologna, Italy, 2009).
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• 1980 "Love and Adulthood in American Culture," pp. 120-147 in Neil Smelser and Erik Erikson (eds.), Themes of Work and Love in Adulthood (Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Press). Reprinted in Arlene S. Skolnick and Jerome Skolnick (eds.), Family in Transition (Boston: Little, Brown, 1985); A. Sadovinik, C. Persell, R. Mitchell, and E. Baumann (eds.), Understanding Society (New York: Harper & Row, 1986); Bellah, Madsen, Sullivan, Swidler, and Tipton (eds.), Individualism and Commitment in American Life (New York: Harper & Row, 1987).
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• 1976 "What Free Schools Teach," Social Problems 24 (December 1976). Reprinted in R.L. Ellis and M.J. Lipetz (eds.), Essential Sociology: The Basis of Interaction (Glenview, Ill.: Scott Foresman).
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• 1976 "Teaching in a Free School," Working Papers for a New Society (Fall).
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• 1973 "The Concept of Rationality in the Work of Max Weber," Sociological Inquiry 43 (Winter).