Sociology 2006-2007 Events

Sociology Colloquium Series 2006-2007
All colloquia are scheduled 12:00-1:30pm, Locations are TBA

  • October 11, 2006 in SSPA 2112
    Jill Quadagno ( Florida State University )
    Why the US Has No National Health Insurance

  • October 20, 2006 in SSPB 4206
    Matthew Salganik ( Columbia University )
    The puzzling nature of success in cultural markets

  • October 25, 2006 in SSPB 4206
    Cybelle Fox ( Harvard University )
    Expelling the "Aliens": Race, Immigration and the American Welfare State

  • October 27, 2006 in SSPB 4206
    Rebecca Glauber ( New York University )
    Gender, Work, and the Diverging Outcomes of Fatherhood

  • November 1, 2006 in SSPB 4206
    Arnout van de Rijt ( Cornell University )
    Immigrant Assimilation: Rapid and Reversible

  • November 3, 2006 in SSPB 4206
    Jake Rosenfeld ( Princeton University )
    Consequences and Causes of Strike Decline in Post-Accord America

  • November 8, 2006 in SSPB 4206
    Alexandra Kalev ( Princeton/Berkeley )
    Cracking the Glass Cages?  Job Segregation, the Restructuring of Work and Managerial Diversity

  • November 29, 2006 in SSPB 4206
    Evan Schofer ( University of Minnesota )
    The Structural Sources of Association

  • December 1, 2006 in SSPB 4206
    Karolyn Tyson ( University of North Carolina )
    On Becoming a Cultural Object: Academic Achievement and Acting White

  • December 6, 2006 in SSPB 4206
    David Brunsma ( University of Missouri )
    Mapping the Contours of (Multi)racial America: Critical Retrospectives and Prospects

  • December 8, 2006 in SSPB 4206
    Ann Hironaka ( University of Minnesota )
    The Construction of Consensus: The Interwar Tank Debates

  • December 13, 2006 in SSPB 4206
    Art Alderson ( Indiana University, Bloomington )
    Change in the World City System: How New is the "New Geography of Inequality?"
  • January 17, 2006 in SSPB 4206
    James M. Jasper ( Contexts Magazine )
    Schoolmarms and Bad Boys: Sociology's Scandalized Reaction to Strategy

  • January 31, 2007 in SSPB 4206
    Anthony Chen
    ( University of Michigan, Ann Arbor )
    The Fifth Freedom: The Lost Origins of Affirmative Action in the United States, 1941-1972

  • February 7, 2007 in SSPB 4206
    Joshua Guetzkow ( University of California, Berkeley )
    Bars vs. Butter: The Prison-Welfare Tradeoff in the U.S., 1970-1996

  • February 21, 2007 in SSPB 4206
    Jennifer Johnson-Hanks
    ( University of California, Berkeley )
    The Wages of Sin are Death: Sexual Stigma and Infant Mortality in sub-Saharan Africa

  • February 28, 2007 in SSPB 1208
    Elijah Anderson ( University of Pennsylvania )
    The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race Relations in Everyday Life

  • March 7, 2007 in SSPB 4206
    Steven Pfaff ( University of Washington )
    Emigration, Protest and the Collapse of East Germany

  • April 4, 2007 in SSPB 4206
    Abigail Saguy ( University of California, Los Angeles )
    Does this BMI Make Me Look Fat? Defining the Limits of “Normal” Body Weight

  • April 6, 2007, 12:00-2:30pm
    Session 1: SSPB 4206
    Jim Bachmeier, New Destination Contexts of Reception: Coethnic Concentration and the Earnings of Low-Skilled Mexican Immigrants
    Jennifer Luchesi-Long, Latino Academic Success: The Effects of a School's Racial and Ethnic Composition on Testing Outcomes
    Diana Pan, Coloring the Nest: Negotiating Race and Culture in Multiethnic Adoptive Families

    Session 2: SSPB 4250
    Shannan Chadek, Social Inequality and My Super Sweet Sixteen: Moral
    Evaluations of Reality TV
    Daisy Reyes
    , Transmission of Sexual Values: A Generational Analysis of
    Women of Mexican Descent
    Christopher Marcum, Trends in Euthanasia Attitudes from 1977 to 2004:
    A Cohort Analysis
    Lorien Jasney, Corporate Interlock Networks: An Analysis of Structure
    and Constructal Theory

  • April 13, 2007, 12:00-2:30pm
    Session 1: SSPB 4206
    James Stobaugh, Evolving Frames: Framing the Debate Over Evolution in
    the U.S. Courts
    Allen Kim, Distant Patriarch to Expressive Dad: 'Ethnic' Toolkits and the Crafting of Evangelical Masculinities in the Father School Movement
    Bobby Chen, Emotional Repertoire of Public Sphere: The Case of Global
    Justice Protest

    Session 2: SSPB 4250
    Linda Borgen, Military Paths in Immigrant Incorporation
    Hien Park, Transitions to Adulthood among the 1.5-Generation Indo-Chinese Immigrants
    Ryan Pearce, Nationalism and Labor: Analyzing Strike Outcomes in
    Revolutionary Shanghai
    Scott Byrd, The Global Dynamics of Political Protest: Analysis of Individual Participation in 67 Countries

  • April 18, 2007 in SSPB 4206
    Susan Watkins ( University of Pennsylvania )
    Conversations into Texts: A Method for Studying the Content of  Conversations about AIDS in  Social Networks in Rural Malawi

  • May 2, 2007 in SSPB 4206
    Matthias vom Hau ( Brown University )
    State Power and Nationalism: Mexico in Comparative Perspective

  • May 9, 2007, in SSPB 4206
    Mark Mizruchi ( University of Michigan )
    Getting a Bonus: The Effects of Social Networks onPay among Commercial Bankers

  • May 23, 2007 in SSPB 4206
    Belinda I. Reyes ( San Francisco State University )
    U.S. Immigration Policies and Mexican Unauthorized Immigration

  • June 13, 2007 in SSPB 4206
    Ronald Lesthaeghe ( University of Michigan )
    The Making of the Modern Western Family and the Politics of Moral Control: An Illustration for the Low Countries, 1450-1900

 

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