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 Social Sciences Building
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Blumer Room - 402 Social Sciences Building
Sanyu A. Mojola, "Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol "
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Blumer Room - 402 Social Sciences Building
Why and how does racial health inequality persist and get reproduced? Throughout its history, Washington D.C., the capital of the United States, has had many of the nation’s worst epidemics, including maternal and infant mortality, homicide, heroin overdoses, and HIV/AIDS.
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Blumer Room - 402 Social Sciences Building
This talk will discuss emerging perspectives on the social construction of age as a window into broader patterns in systems of inequality. I will draw on several of my ongoing projects about conceptualizing, theorizing, and measuring age as a social construct. “Aging” is often considered an individual or societal problem; but there is much more we can learn by going beyond this perspective and studying “age” as a multilevel and multidimensional system of inequality. Age is an under-theorized yet central piece of culture, organizations, interactions, and individual experiences.
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Blumer Room - 402 Social Sciences Building
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Blumer Room - 402 Social Sciences Building
Abstract:
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Blumer Room - 402 Social Sciences Building
Abstract:
Sanyu A. Mojola, "Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol "
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Blumer Room - 402 Social Sciences Building
Abstract:
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Blumer Room - 402 Social Sciences Building
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AI technology is currently developed and deployed in the U.S. at an unprecedented pace,generating important social, political, and economic consequences but guided by little to nopublic input. How can the public shape AI technology and its growing influence in their lives? Inthis talk, I will draw on two studies to explore a set of dynamics that define current AI policydebates: (1) the continuing dominance of a market-based approach to policymaking that defers totech firms and does little to check their growing power, and (2) the new proliferation of publiclyaccessible AI expertise that largely promotes individual consumerism. As I will show, ensuringthat the development and application of AI technology is democratic and equitable will requiredeeper shifts in the logic of policymaking and the practice of expertise, with distinct implicationsfor universities and social scientists.
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Blumer Room - 402 Social Sciences Building
Panel Discussion: “Teaching and Researching Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration in the Current Moment” feat. Cristina Mora, Michael Rodríguez-Muñíz, andJenna Nobles (UC Berkeley Demography)
Moderated by Cybelle Fox