Monthly Archives: September 2011

2011-12 Brownbag Series off to a fine start

Posted on September 28, 2011 by porterem

On Monday, October 3, 2011 Marcos Perez, Pamela Neumann and Katie Sobering discussed their summer field research in Argentina and Peru. Thanks to faculty and students who engaged the panelists in a lively conversation, prompting the expansion of brownbag format … Continue reading →

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“The Reorder of Things: On the Institutionalization of Difference,” an invited lecture by Dr. Roderick Ferguson

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Vivian Shaw

Roderick Ferguson – “The Reorder of Things: On the Institutionalization of Difference” Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 3:00 p.m. in SAC 1.118 Reception will follow the conclusion of the lecture. In this talk, Dr. Ferguson critiques the production of normativity … Continue reading →

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Wall Street’s “American Spring”

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Nicholas Reith

A recent blog article here and news articles here and here report on the ongoing protests that have occupied Zucotti Park in lower Manhattan’s Wall Street financial district. Modelled on and inspired by the recent events of the “Arab Spring,” this organized anti-capitalist protest aims … Continue reading →

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Dr. Sheldon Ekland-Olson: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides?: Abortion, Neonatal Care, Assisted Dying, and Capital Punishment

Posted on September 19, 2011 by khsu

Issues of life and death such as abortion, assisted suicide, capital punishment and others are among the most contentious in many societies. Whose rights are protected? How do these rights and protections change over time, and who makes those decisions? … Continue reading →

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The tables are turned: Chinese foreign economic policy in comparative perspective

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Nicholas Reith

A recent blog article by Nasos Mihalakas, entitled China’s Efforts to Internationalize its Currency resonated strongly with the recent course readings I have been doing for Mounira Maya Charrad’s course on Comparative Historical Sociology. In this class we have been working … Continue reading →

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Sociology for whom? For what?

Posted on September 16, 2011 by pamela

Back in 2004, then-president of the American Sociological Association Michael Burawoy sparked intense debate with his call for a renewed public sociology. In his introduction to the Italian translation (Sociologica 2007) of his published remarks to the ASA conference (“For Public … Continue reading →

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Stratification and the Multiplicity of Sociologies

Posted on September 14, 2011 by porterem

Isaac Sasson Introductory courses on stratification, at both the undergraduate and graduate level, typically include a discussion of the classic correspondence between Kingsley Davis & Wilbert Moore and Melvin Tumin that took place over the pages of ASR between 1945 … Continue reading →

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