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
Policing and Residential Segregation: Toward a Research and Policy Agenda
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
Reception to follow in 420 Barrows Hall
The Difficulty of Democracy in Democratic Socialism
The greatest challenge for ecological democratic socialism is not the generation of just provisioning and protection of all sentient life. The hard part is achieving this democratically, especially on a large scale and in a globally integrated world. The lecture meditates on this problem with reference to the utopian dreams of Erik Olin Wright.
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
Whom Do You Believe? Assessing Credibility of the Accuser and Accused in Sexual Assault
Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
Paradoxes of Survivorhood: Becoming Legible after Domestic Violence
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
Gender is changing rapidly in the twenty-first century, with boundaries becoming more mutable, liminal, and flexible. Survey-based research can help identify sites of gender inequality at the population level, but much of its implementation still reflects a narrow and flat categorization of individuals into two groups: male and female. Social constructionist and interactional approaches have been more successful in handling the major social changes that have taken place in terms of gender, but methodology in survey-based research has not yet caught up to qualitative work. Scholars of race and ethnicity have managed to incorporate embodied dimensions into large-scale survey research on inequality, but demographers interested in gender still lag behind.
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
The Social Lives of Sexuality Statistics: Sexuality Knowledge, Demography, and the Politics of Population Measurement.
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
Trumpism before Trump: Traditional Party Breakdown in the American Rust Belt
The talk draws on an ethnographic community study of two Rust Belt communities to show how broader shifting in American political economy undermined the social institutions that once anchored the two party system. Drawing on observation of the two parties and interviews with citizens, I show how this created opportunities and incentives for new kinds of party activists and candidates, notably those employing a reactionary and nativist appeals long before the 2016 Election.
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
Marion Fourcade, Monday, March 18 in 402 Barrows Hall
The type and the grade: On the institutional scaffolding of the judgment of taste
We tend to evaluate objects and people around us in two main ways: as types (i.e., having a particular quality) or as grades (i.e., being more or less). In this presentation, I explore these two modes of judgment by diving into the world of wine. I contrast the history of wine classification in Napa Valley (United States) and Burgundy (France), to analyze the historical conditions under which imaginaries of type and imaginaries of grade developed, how these imaginaries were stabilized through specific institutions and instruments, how they shaped wine-making practices, and how they continue to inform subjective perceptions --in this case the "taste" of wine.
Blumer Room - 402 Social Sciences Building
Pedagogy Colloquium: Wed., March 13th (4-5, 420 Barrows) for a discussion on exams, grading and evaluating students