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
The Martyrs Welfare State: Politics and social policy in post-revolutionary Iran
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
Explaining the Decline in Mexico-U.S. Migration: The Effect of the Great Recession
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
“I Don’t Like Passing as a Straight Woman”: Queer Negotiations of Identity and Social Group Membership
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
The Chinese Bureaucracy in Three Lenses: Weberian, Confucian, and Marchian
The Chinese bureaucracy—with its long history and distinct characteristics—is arguably one salient contribution of the Chinese civilization. In recent decades, it has provided the organizational basis for the leading role of the Chinese state in China’s economic growth and institutional transformation. The Chinese bureaucracy also shows intriguing dualism between high responsiveness and strong inertia and between formal authority and informal institutions. I explore these distinctive features of the Chinese bureaucracy from three lenses: Weber’s comparative-historical approach helps locate the Chinese bureaucracy in a distinct mode of domination; the Confucian lens identifies the cultural sources of bureaucratic behaviors; and March’s image of organized anarchy sheds light on a set of mechanisms that shape the role of the bureaucracy in China’s political dynamics.
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
Men’s Labor Market Outcomes: Is There a Case for Marriage?
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
Breaking the Machine: Social Movement Disruption and Authority Erosion in Organizations
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
Copwise: The Emerging Cultural Context of Criminalized Urban Communities