Colloquia
Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Blumer Room - 402 Social Sciences Building
MONDAYS, 2:00 - 3:30 PM
[unless otherwise noted]
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
BERKELEY SOCIOLOGY FORUM
Wednesday, April 13, 5-7.30p.m., 402 Barrows Hall
THE CHINA BOOM
Ho-fung Hungis Associate Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. He will present his book The China Boom: Why China will not Rule the World with responses from Tom Gold, You-tien Hsing and Gillian Hart.
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
Millionaire Migration and the Taxation of the Elite: Evidence from Administrative Data
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
Friday, April 8, 2-3:30pm in 402 Barrows
National Portraits: Racial Conceptualization and the Demographic Imaginary
Statistical “facts” about the demographic makeup of the nation often garner considerable public, media and political attention. In the United States, for example, Census Bureau projections that the “white” share of the national population will fall below 50 percent within 30 years have met with popular and intellectual concern, soul-searching, and at times, welcome. Far from objective data, however, these thought-provoking statistics are constructs that reflect prevailing beliefs about who “we”—and “they”—are. In the example above, the expectation that whites will no longer be a majority population in the U.S. depends on the view that Hispanic Americans are not white.
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
On the Line: Racial Boundaries at Work in the New South
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
Rebecca Jean Emigh
How States & Societies Count
Censuses in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom
Rebecca Jean Emigh will give a talk on a two-volume work co-authored with Dylan Riley and Patricia Ahmed. The volumes are entitled Antecedents of Censuses From Medieval to Nation States: How Societies and States Count (Volume 1) and Changes in Censuses from Imperialist to Welfare States: How Societies and States Count (Volume 2), Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. The authors explore a society-centered account of census taking in a broad historical and comparative perspective.
Wednesday March 30th, 4:00-5:30 pm
Social Science Matrix, Barrows Hall Room 832
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
Randol Contreras: Monday, March 28, 2-3:30 in 402 Barrows Hall
There’s No Sunshine: Spatial Anguish in the Stigmatized Spaces of Compton and South Los Angeles.
Through field data collected in Compton and South Los Angeles, this paper develops the concept of spatial anguish to capture the shame and fear that residents feel because of their space’s stigma. In doing so, it reveals the intersection of race, class, gender, and space in the meanings of stigmatized residents. African Americans and Latina/os residents deal with their spatial anguish in two distinct ways: first, by trying to disassociate themselves from the stigma through the reinforcement of negative race and gender stereotypes; second, by using raced and gendered frames to negotiate their neighborhood safety.
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
Monday, March 14, 2:00-3:00pm in Barrows 402
Where Everybody May Not Know Your Name: The Importance of Elastic Ties
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
Summoned: Identification and Religious Life in a Jewish Neighborhood
Based on ethnographic fieldwork, Summoned presents an account of the fabric of everyday life in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood, and an attempt to think through the relationship among actors' identifications, the crystallization of their social worlds, and the micro-patterning of social interaction. I trace the ways in which both entrenched institutions and fleeting moments of interaction on the streets of LA's Melrose-La Brea neighborhood solidify actors' identifications and social worlds. Through this case, I argue that focusing on the rhythms and expectations of interaction allow sociologists to tie interactional analyses to wider social patterns and cut through some of the debate between theorizations of identity and identification.
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
February 22, 2-3:30pm in 420 Barrows Hall
Combinatorial Politics: Civic Benevolence and the Making of the American Nation-State